St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-14
MISS GlNG TOLD A FRIEND
She Had Business With "Mp,
Hayward That Fatal
Night.
HECKMAN'S AWFUL STORY.
Asserts That Hayward Want
ed Him to Drown Some
Person.


the Hayward murder trial was eX-
amined yesterday. and at :35 o'clock
the county attorney said, addressing
the court: The state rests here"
The announcement created a ripple
of surprise, but there really re-
manned nothing to add to the ava
lanche of corroborative evidence
which has swept away the puny bar
riers thrown UP by the defense. A
great wall. rOck-ribbed in its fOunda-
tion and f1awless in its superstruct-
ure intervenes between Harry Hay
ward, and that liberty which is the
heritage of an honest man by consti-
tutionaI right.
The remarkable story which AttOr-
ney Hall said he would prove in his
opening address has been told by the
chief actor in that bloody narrative.
It has been corrObOrated by the
scathing testimony of the accused
mans own brother. and the extra
ordinary story he was constrained
to tell has been corroborated by doz-
ems of witnesses.
Nothing has been left undOne. The
case of the state has not been dam
aged by the sophisticaI interrOga-
tions of the defense. nor the insinua-
tions it has thrown out to prejudice
the jurors.
The case as it stands fits Harry
Hayward like a glove. And however
much that individual may smirk and
smile and affect Indifference, it will
require proof little short of the mir
aculous to save his neck from tie
halter.
He. is not altogether unprepared
for this. Harry Hayward, blase and
unconcerned in court, is very diff
ferent man in the solitude of his
cell. What the crowd is pleased to
call his nerve" is not so apparent
behind iron bars. In more than one
conversation with friends he has
talked of the probable effect OF the
mountain of evidence which the
state has adduced. It remains to be
seen what airs he will assume on
the stand when compelled to reply
to the accusations Of his tool BliXt,
his brother Adry and the men who
cOrroborated them.
The sensation of the day was
when the state called Mrs. Lillian
HazIetOn to the stand. Mrs. Halle
ton was a friend Of Catherine G.ng's
and is perhaps the last person with
whom she held any considerable con-
-r~-t Of
der. The ladies met in Hale &
Thomas dry goods store on NicolIet
avenue at about 4:3O in the after
noon, and were together for half an
hour In the course of that conver-
satiOn the name of Harry Hayward
was mentioned. Mrs. HazletOn asked
Miss Cling to supper. and her reply,
given in careless. friendly yconfdence,
connected her lover ineXtricably
with her cruel murder. She said:
Il cannot go; 1 have a business en-
gagement with Mr.. Hayward
There was some question about
the admissibility of this evidence,
and Judge Smith. before deciding
upon it. listened to a long argument
of the county attorney. The defense
strenuously objected. but the court
ruled that. inasmuch as it had been
proven that Hayward was with her
that night on Kenwood boulevard.
the dead womans last remarks
should become a part of the record.
Cross-examination failed to shake
Mrs. HazIeton's recollection of the
time. place or exact conversation.
Mr.. Erwin was particular to estab-
lish that Miss Cling did not say
Harry Hayward" but this must
count for little. as Adry Hayward
has sworn positively that he did not
know the woman even by sight.
The second surprise of the day was
when Blixt was recalled by the de-
Tense He was asked if he did not,
in the presence of his attorney in
the jail, say to a Miss Wachter. a
stenographer. that he and Adry put
up the job, and agreed, if they were
caught, to lay the crime to Harry's
door, because he was keeping COM
pany with Miss Cling. But Blixt,
with a look of astonishment which
he is too ignorant to feign, replied:
THAT is all lie"
The state also introduced a hack
driver who knew Harry Hayward
well. He testified to repeated con-
versatiOns with the prisoner, in
which inquiries were made as to his
conscience. Finally Hayward had
asked him if he would not drive his
horses into the lake and drown a
party. The hack-driver, whose name
is Valley, told a very damaging
story, for Adry could never have
learned from the papers or the at
torneys in the case what Harry said
to hackmGn away last summer.
When the state rested, Mr.. Erwin
asked until this morning to make his