River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-03-07
THE GING MURDER.
The Trial is Closed as Far as Testi-
mony is Concerned.
Geo. w. jerks. the Last Witness for the
State, Created n Sensation and
Caused Hayward to Lose
His Temper.

SiINNEAPoLIs, Feb. 27.-The cross
examination of Harry Hayward was
concluded yesterday, with the under
standing that he could be recalled il
desered by the state. In the absence
of Attorney Nyc it was conducted by
Assistant Hall and was very vigorous
as to the weeks and days preceding the
murder. MIR. Hall, while failing to
shake the witness direct testimony, OBJ
tanning from him admissions of discrep-
ancies between that and his statements
to the inquisition, and also placing in
bad light before the jury the incident
of the display of the money in Barge's,
the sending of Waterman TO pump Miss
Cling and the signing of the notes, as
signnents, etc, in two or three differ
cnt kinds of ink.
The Hamil mill trip was also gone
into, and it was intimated that the e.
buttal might show that Harry was
actually at the Hamil mill on the day
following the fire. He denied it.
Mr.. Hall also drew from him the fact
that the money he had obtained from
the lot formerly referred to was as fol-
lows: 81, 200 from Elder Stewart on a
mortgage, with which he won 81, $50 at
the Twin City Athletic Club almost
Immediately. Then there was $500
on other mortgages, and finally he sold
the lot to Stewart, who paid him r., 565.
He admitted gambling a great deal
and had had some losses; but not so
heavy as he heard them reported on the
street afterwards. He had not lost
So. 500 at the club on Sixth street, but
had lost some during the last fall at
Carney's Pacific house on Seventh street
in st. Paul.
He said concerning his connections
with Stewart in a business way that
for the last two years it had been n
case of beat each other with then, and
as he had come out little abe ad,
Stewart didn't like il.
In the afternoon Mr.. Hall said he
couldn't see any sense in Miss Cling
coming back after she took away the
81, 900. Harry said he couldn't either.
The state also indicated that it would
endeavor to prove that Harry met Miss
Cling at Fifth street and First avenue y
Friday evening. Nov. go. and that he
was III bdEPt IcsldNIdub WIN HcI sat
urday evening, Dec. 1, the night she is
supposed to have been out riding with
the mysterious man. He said that he
was not in Barge's restaurant upstairs
at all that night and if he was in down
stairs, it was only passing visit on his
was to the street car from Nicollet ave-
nue., where the incident of the oranges
occurred.
NJ. ID. Wilson, the livery man, was
put on the stand again, and interro-
gated as to certain conversations the
day following the murder.0 Wilson de-
MED the conversations and stated he
left town that day.
Following Mr.. Wilson the defense put
on Harold Stevens aud Percy Wood.
two young men who were at Lake Cal
houn the night OF the murder. Both OF
them testified to seeing rapidly driven
light buggy swing off the Calhoun
boulevard on to the Lake street at a
terrible pace and sweep by them so
rapidly that they stepped TO one side of
the road to escape being run over. Up
to that point both of the boys agreed.
When Mr.. Hall took the witnesses he
endeavorcd to show thai they were the
mysterious long-coated individuals that
Gertie Brown and Frank Springstad en-
countered on their way home from
Lake Calhoun. The time corresponds
very we'll, but both of the young men
testified that they did not have on long
coats.