The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-11
HAYWARD'S LAST HOURS
Laughed and Joked with Keepers
on the Eve of His Execution.
RESUME OF A REMARKABLE CASE.

How the Killing of Miss Cling Was Traced
Home to the Dashing Young Sport
Through the Confession of Claus A.
Blixt, the Actual Murderer.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec H. Before dawn
this morning Harry Hayward was hanged
at the jailin this city for the murder OF
Catherine Cling. Before dark last night
morbid crowds had assembled in the viCin
ity of the Jail, and at midnight the throng
numbered several hundred, though moth
ing but the gray walls of the prison were
visible.
Haywards swell dinner, the "last sup
per-" as he profanely expressed it, was
served, according to his desire, shortly
after 10 o'clock last night, and he partook
of it with apparent relish.
During the evening Hayward held a
lengthy conversation with his attendants,
and laughed and joked on the subject of
his approaching execution. As Captain
Sandberg was covering the windows OF
the Jail looking into the alley Harry
noticed him and shouted: "That's right.
Block out the gaping crowd. There will
be no visitors after o'clock in the morn
ing, People wishing to see me will have
l
change my quarters" And he laughed as
he said it.
To the newspaper men he said; Il
would like to see the account of how this
thing came off and about my actions on
the scaffold, and again he laughed as if
he We're going to a picnic instead of to his
death
Hayward spent a considerable portion of
the evening telling stories and listening
to stories by others. 1t being his last night
he was allowed quite privilege, and was
continually surrounded by f"iends He
was gay and jovial all the time, and gave
every indication that he would go to the
gallows as he would to dinner. He passed
cigars around freely and talked about his
great meal. The toast he proposed at his
/ dinner was:
Here's to the girl who loves me and tc
the girls whom love"
As a sample of his conversation the fol.
lowing can be quoted
Sheriff Holmberg came into the cage and
Harry said:
"How are you sheriff. I am as fine as
silk. You and I are the chief actors to
night, aren't we, sheriff."
He seemed to never think of any here.
after.
On the evening of Dec 3, 1894, a little
after O'clock the dead body of Miss
Catherine Cling, a well known dressmalIer
of this city, was found lying by the side of
the lonely road that skirts Lake Calhoun,
one of the favored summer drives, but less
used in the fall An hour before she had
taken from the Goodman stables a horse
and buggy and had driven away unaccom-
panied. Soon after o'clock her dead
body was found, and at about the same
time the horse came trotting into the sta
BILE alone, and with no indications of hay
ing run away. At first it had been thought
that there had been a fatal runaway, the
battered condition of the head seeming Ia
point that way, but the coroner soon found
a LLllet wound in the back of the head,
and it became question of murder OF
suicide
Harry Haywards first appearance in the
matter was at midnight ON the night OF
the murder, when he came to police head.
quarters and expressed his belief that the
woman had been murdered, explaining
that he believed that it was the scheme OF
some unknown persons to do him out
of several thousands of insurance money
from policies Miss Cling had assigned &c
him as security for loans, Hayward and
the murdered girl had been close acquaint-
ances, and he, a great gambler, had placed
money for her on the cards, and had been
associated with her in one or two bushes
deals
Miss Cling lived in the Ozark, hand
some apartment house owned by Hay
wards father and they were able to SET
each other. Owing to his close friendship
for the woman Harry was closcted Will
the officers, under the direction of Mayor
Eustis, for thirteen hours and during tha
time was subjected to a terrible inquisi
tion, without food or rest. His nerve wa
always remarkable and was never NOR,
evident than them for after twenty hours
in custody he was released the officers
being unable to get anything from hin
that would seem to connect him in an,
way with the crime The insurance monel
had made them suspicious.
The second day after the murder cam
the unexpected event which led to the 50
luton of the mystery.
One of the best and most favorabl
known citizens of Minneapolis is Glider
l.. NJ. Stewart, wealthy man of long res
dence in the city. He had been an attorne
and was for years advisor of all member
of the Hayward family From him cam
a letter addressed TO the county attorney
and was written only after long ponderin
over the relations of client and lawyer II
stated that three days before the murde
he had a call from Adry A. Hayward, al
older brother of Harry, who told him tina
Harry and Claus Blixt, engineer at tn
Ozark, We're about to murder Miss Cling.
The "elder' knew that Harry ofUe
talked in ways he had no thought of act
9 ing, and told Adry he was being fooled
and to pay no attention to the matter
Adry had insisted that it was true ant
II that he fully believed the murder woulJ
occur, but he dropped the matter whel
told to do so, and nothing more wa
thought about it until the announcement
-, of the murder.
II The funeral came inext day, and in tn