Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-20

for Fear Memory Would Make a
Coward Of Him-A Truly Remark
able Career of Crime.
Minneapolis, Mimi, December 10
The ante-mOrtem statement Of Harry
T. Hayward, the full text of which,
making 10000 words, the Times will
print tomorrow morning in full, is in
many respects a most remarkable dOcu-
ment. II was made under the most
formal conditions and with solemn as
sertions on the murderer's part that he
was telling the truth. The full text,
20 be published tomorrow, gives for
the first time the name of one of the
victims and other important details,
which have hitherto been omitted in
the abstracts that have been printed.
Not only does Hayward claim to have
murdered during his brief career no
less than five different persons but IN
describing the various tragedies in
which he figured he shows an utter alb
sence of human feeling and a pleasure
in his achievements that mark him as
an unusual type of criminal. The Ian
guage used in describing his criminal
adventures is the same careless, flip
pant style that characterized his testi-
mony on the stand.
HIS frs, murder was that Of Carrie
Hass. near Pasadena, Cal, and he de-
scr.bes the affair thus: 4 met this girl
at a dance. and TO cut it short, l killed
her. She had money and I shot her
That IS all of that. | look at in this way
lit was not much Of an amount. 1t
was 500 and some odd that she had.
I gO- the money She would naturally
holler, and looked at it that she would
be better off dead There would no. be
anybody TO h0ller around, as she did not
have any relations. She was young,
pretty and a little bit
ON THE SPORTING ORDER.
The money was left her by her father.
It has always been IN my head to kill
a person and not look at their face
after they are dead, because there's
that memory business. That leaves an
impression on your mind That IS
what makes mUrdererS confess. The
conscience bOthers them"
He then goes on to describe how he
got her money, on some pretext inveigl-
ed her out to drive in the mountains.
and he shot her.
It was tizzle, he said. because he dtd
not figure 10 out as carefully as ne
would have done later She did not die
at once, but fiOpped around He buried
her as best he could. but worried about
il afterwards and hired a man Two
weeks after to go out and put her IN q
box and throw it into the port at Los
Angeles. He knew this mans name.
brt on the principle Of honor among
thieves, would not tell IT, Nothing had
ever come of the matter. Money. he
said. was his first object m life. girls
the second, and travel the third. There
was a girl in Minneapolis with whom
he was going, and who had $4,000 a
year He planned to kin her, but did
not because there was no way he could
get her money. But he longed to do the
deed.
''She used to make me 50 damned
mad" said Harry Hayward, that l
wanted to choke her. can understand
how Durant
KILLED THOSE TWO GIRLS
in San Francisco with pleasure" Once
when tending bar in Long Branch he
had killed a consumptive man, who
came there and who had money. The
consumptive had money and wanted to
die The name Harry refused to tell
on the ground that he had an accom-
plice who might get into trouble now.
But this was murder by shooting, too,
and the body was thrown into the river.
Then there was the Chinaman killed in
a gambling quarrel and the brother OF
the Mexican girl at FL PasO del Norte,
and lastly. Miss Cling.
One of Harry's auditors asked him if
he ever saw spOoks. He replied that
he often saw faces. but not real people.
Catherine Cling had never bothered him
after death. but the girl whose brother
he had killed once appeared to him be-
fore the Cling killing and said: Harry,
look OUT Look OUT The object of the
Cling murder was money and hatred.
He hated the girl because she was so
stingy-he had obtained S3,S00 of her
money-and mean and suspicious. She
had a way of putting her hands on him,
and pinching him that made him so
mad he wanted 10 choke her, and could
scarcely keep from it until the time was
ripe.
The stories of BliXt and Adry on the
stand were practically correct and
Harry exOnerated Adry from all Grim
inal connection with any Of his
schemes. BliXt, he said.
WAS SURELY HYPNOTIZED
and was not responsible. He felt sure
that the man should not have been
given but two or three years in prison
instead of a life sentence. In closing
his statement. Hayward said:
eI have told the truth. so help me
God-if there is a God. If there is, he
certainly won't blame me as l have
honestly followed the dictates of my
conscience. Don't say that I'm sorry
for I'm not. l have made my bed and
will lie in il without kicking. | have
had my fun and willpay for it"
He admitted knowing lot aboW
green goods and had used counterfeit
a good deal. but would not tell what he
knew as it would endanger others.