The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-12-12
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he
Turned to the Hanging Again.
and said that he was not bothered In the
least by the thought Of 1t and would walk
out to the scaffold and SO control his brain
that he would never think of being hanged
Of how he had felt when they took him to
see the body Of Kate King cit didn't
bother me at all" he said, "and when
put my hand out and touched the body
was thinking Of something else.
He complained that he had not slept well
the night before; that he was talking to
visitors all night. Eve won't admit any
visitors after O'Clock in the morning,
will we, Harry?" said the death watch.
mo, we won't. and If they want to see
me, they will have to go to the morgue."
said this remarkable murderer. ''I'm go
ing to change my address In the morning"
Then he asked DR.. Burton If it would not
be good thing to wear turn-down collar
for the finish and the doctor said 1t would,
In the most matter of fact way Then he
turned to the, newspaper men and said
he supposed they had the account Of the
hanging all written up by this time and
asked If he couldn't get an advance copy
of it. And this sort Of joking went on
until about o'clock, when all the visitors
were requested to leave except the doctors.
Soon after 8 o'clock Dr. Goodsell and Joe
Mannix came In and We're admitted to the
cell room. There was stenOgrapher with
them, and Harry began again the task Of
debating his memoirs. The dictation is
very much broken, for he constantly broke
in on the work of the stenographer and
talked with Goodsell or Mannix. What the
story is can only be surmised, for no con-
fession had come from his lips last evening,
though Minneapolis paper faxed what
purported to be confession yesterday
afternoon. 1919 -.,. .H5
At 10 o'clock he got uneasy about his sup
per not coming, and said it was not fair TO
cheat him out Of his last meal. He was
told that food would be brought as soon as
he was ready for 1t, and then he said he
could wait. He repeated the order as he
had given it, showing that his memory was
in good state, as there were a alf-dozen
dishes, including turkey, goose, chicken
salad, two kinds of pie ice cream and the
| usual side Dishes
While debating he moved up and down
the corridor sat down as he felt inclined.
| and kept steadily at it. And outside the
| iron door leading to the corridor his blood
| curdling laugh could be heard every few
minutes.
| Outside, as the event approached, the
| rules Of the sheriff to his deputies became
more strict. He moved the newspaper men
out of the room they had been writing in
and kept everybody down in the office.
| There was a motley crowd there. Not a
large crowd by any means. They con-
| sisted of newspaper men and deputies, and
down the middle of the office, turning oc-
| casionally into the execution room, was a
minister-the
| Rev. William Wilkinson
Harry had not sent for him, but Mr.. Will
| kinson was determined to make one more
effort to stir in the doomed man some sort
| of religious feeling. In the chamber Of
| death everything was ready. The rope had
been stretched by leaving a weight of 900
pounds of sand hanging to it all the after
noon. The windows had been covered with
| blankets and the floor scrubbed. 1t was
| part of the toilet of death. Most of the
| louhgers, the sheritfs and their deputies
from other counties and the special deputies
| stood about the room In which stood the
engine of death. The scaffod itself was
arranged in two parts, with the trap be-
| tween. Heavy standards supported either
side Of the ominous looking machine and
back to one side was the lever that springs
the trap. The drop about eight feet,
and there was some speculation about the
possibility Of Hayward's body being too
heavy for such drop and the possibility
of horror being added to the final scene.
Sheriff Holmberg had carefully tested it,
however, and felt that it was safe. About
~ O'Clock in the evening the newspaper men
and deputies aside from those who were to
take part in the last act were excluded from
the chamber of execution and there was q
| rehearsal of the scene in which Hayward
was to be the central figure. 1t was car
ried on silently and not sound penetrated
through the doors. -.
It was arranged that after Hayward had
been pinioned and his hands fastened be-
hind his back with handouts. the process
sion should start with Sheriff Holmberg in
the lead Behind Holmberg there was a
place for the condemned and on either side
of him will be a deputy-Megaarden on
his right and Bright on his left. Anderson
will bring up the rear. There is not room
for three to pass abreast through the mar
row doorway into the execution room, but
the deputies will keep their hands on Har-
rvs arm, though he has said that it will
not be necessary and he will make them
hustle to keep up with him. There are
nine rather steep steps to ascend to the
scafrold, and the walk from his cell to the
place Of hanging is about seventy-tive feet
It would take a man with nerve and mus
cles too. to ascend the steps, and that
was conceded to be the test of Harry's
nerve. The grim scene through which the
deputies had to pass was rehearsed to the
satisfaction of the sheriff and when Har-
| rvs last supper arrived he was quite ready
for it and anything else, for he suspected
that the event might come off just after
- o'clock, and he didn't want to be sur
prised.
Strange Religious Discussion.
There was a discussion Of religion such
as few men have ever heard or taken part
in last evening in Hayward's CELL He got
tired of debating about 10 o'clock, or per-
haps he was through-no one but the Ste
nographer and the other three persons pres
ent know-and he asked the newspaper men
to come again.
"Here," he said, 81 want someone to read
the paper Start in on my story and read
through" One of the reporters started
and got as far as the communication that
was sent to Gov. Clough, signed by the
forty-one, and then Hayward stopped him.
"Thats a blood-thirsty fellow" he said.
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