Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-03-13
HAYWARD WILL HANG.
Found Guilty of the Murder Of
Miss Cling.
Great Ilobs Greet the News with Trs-
mendous Cheers.

Minneapolis, Mimi, March 9-"Guilty
as charged were the fatal words of the
verdict which terminated the Hayward
murder trial yesterday afternoon. Err
win talked for another hour in the morn
ing, then Judge Smith charged the jury
and sent the twelve men out at a few
minutes past II o'clock. In three hours
the verdict had been determined upon
little before o'clock the report
spread that the jury had agreed on a YER
dict. Judge Smith FASTENED to the court
room, the prisoner was brought in and
the jury summoned. When Judge Smith
arrived he issued strict orders to admit
Eo one, and the injunction was religious
ly observed.
Kobler, the deputy clerk, asked in a
tremulous voice whether the jury had
agreed upon a verdict, and Neil Mcneil,
the foreman, stood up. His face was
CHASTITY in its color, and there was not
a man ON the jury unaffected by the gray
ity OF the situation.
I'VE have agreed said Mcneil, in
voice that was scarcely audible, and the
folded piece of paper that meant life or
death to the accused was handed to the
clerk. Judge smith looked over the doe
ument first aud returned it to Deputy
Clerk Kobler.
1--WE, the jury, find the prisoner guilty."
he read.
Every eye was turned toward the con-
demned man. There was nothing in his
face to indicate that he had heard a
word of it. He threw his head back as
the word guilty was pronounced, but
it was only to adjust his cellar-band
He did not change color by a single
shade Twice he coughed, then, looking
around at the crowd, he raised his eye
brows, inquiringly, as though to ask:
What next?'
Then the court announced that SEN
tence would be deferred until Monday
morning. Hayward was evidently
pleased. He expressed the opinion while
being removed from the courtroom that
the verdict was an outrage and that he
was long way from the hangman yet
At 2:45 Hayward was taken down
stairs and led back to jail under strong
police guard. In the belief that trouble
might occur if the verdict exonerated
I2yWard, a force of officers had been
detailed to duty at the courtroom and vi
entity. An Immense crowd awaited the
prisoners coming He grinned at the
mob as it pushed forward over the pave
meat toward him, and it is doubtful
whether Harry Hayward would have re,
GREETED an opportunity to settle matters
with some of the noisiest. He was taken
across the street on a trot, with the yell>s
ing multitude at his heels.
Afer finishing his closing arguments,
Attorney Erwin, Hayward's counsel, col
lapsed and his condition is very serious.
Following close upon the heels of the
verdict III the Hayward trial, another SEN
satiOn was sprung when warrants were
sworn out against two of the witnesses
for the defense, charging them with per-
jury. The warrants were sworn out by
Attorney r. r. O'Dell against Maggie
Wachtler, formerly his stenographer,
and George A. GriRdall. The former is
charged with perjuring herself in that
part of her testimony in which she swore
that BliXt, in his statement to Mr.. ODell
before the trial, began to relate a story in
which he charged Adry Hayward with
conSpiripg with him to murder Catharine
Cling Grindall testified regarding the
mysterious and, it is believed, fictitious
third" man.
Minnea polls, Mimi, March Hilary
Il. Hayward, convicted of the murder of
Catherine Cling, has three months to live.
Sentence was passed on him by Judge
Seagrav Smith this morning, after a
motion for an arrest of sentence by MIR.
Erwin had been denied.
Harry came into the court in the same
leisurely, calm manner that has charac>
terized his demeanor all through the trial
and surveyed the crowd coldly while the
handouts were being removed. Judge
Smith agreed to examine the grounds
urged for new trial on March Is and
then passed sentence He said he had
no doubt whatever that the verdict was a
just and righteous one and, while he did
not belieye in capital punishment, it was
his painful duty to pass sentence III &C,
cordance with the law.
The sentence of this court he con,
tinued, lis that you be taken to the Hen
nepin county jail and there confined until,
after a period of three months, a time to
be fixed by the governor of this state, yon
be taken to the place of execution and
hanged by the neck until you are dead"
Harry listened calmly and sat down
without the slightest show Of feeling.