The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-03-08
,,IARRYIS EXCUSED
Cross = Examination of Hay
ward Over for the Pres
ent at Least.
Ills FIRST STORY UNSHAKEN.
Defense Springs Another Sur
prise Regarding That
"Third Man."

MINNEAPoLIs, Feb. 27.-As witness
Harry Hayward improves with age.
Attorney Hall had him all to himself
until p. m. and failed to embarrass
that exclusive individual as much as his
own attorney did on direct examination.
The witness appeared to much better
advantage than on the previous day,
and answered questions as though he
had some idea of what he was talking
about, condition Of mind which did
not affect his utterances on Monday.
Mr.. Hall harped on several strings in
the course of the day, the paying over
of the money in the Oneida block, the
witness knowledge of the safety vault,
Waterman visit to Miss Cling, witness
gambling operations, loans of money,
the holdup and many other things.
Hayward maintained a good front
throughout, and generally needed Judge
Smiths pointer to confne himself to
statements of facts without stopping to
explain each trivial occurrence.
L.
Mr.. Hall explaining that he was attend
ing the funeral of his grandmother.
His Loans to Miss Cling.
Mr.. Hall opened with fire of ques-
as to the loans Hayward claims to have
made Miss Cling. The motive Of the
questioning was to bring out the loose
ness of such methods as Hayward claims
to have pursued in his financial deal
ings with Miss Cling.
Mr.. Hall tried very hard to secure an
admission from Hayward that his loans
to the young modiste We're of most I'M
usual and unbusinesslike character.
The fact was brought out that Hayward,
shortly after making the girl loan of
81 900, had pawned ring for her. 1t
was suggested that here existed a state
of affairs not easily accepted as fact, but
Hayward had no difficulty in explaining
it. He pointed out that Miss Cling had
re-lent the money, and that to have
cashed the loan at the time would have
necessitated losing a discount. He Dor
rowed money on the ring for her to
meet a temporary exigency.
The Burning of the Hamel Mill.
Harry's connection with the loss
Miss Cling made on the flour mill at
Hamel, and the collection of the loss
when it suddenly burned was thor
oughly ventilated and Harry was asked
whether he had not driven out to Ha-
mel with Miss Cling the morning after
the fire. This and other questions were
asked for impeachment purposes, the
state proposing to show on rebuttal that
Harry is not telling the truth.
Harry took occasion to call down Mr..
Hall once or twice for making his in
terrogations in the form of positive
statements, to which he expected to
affix an interrogation point and the
rising infection. His attorneys advised
him only to answer direct questions.
He said concerning his connections
with Stewart in business way that for
the last two years it had been a case of
beat each other with them, and as he
had come out a little ahead Stewart
didn't like it,
The state indicated that it would en-
deavor to prove that Harry met Miss
Cling at Fifth street and First avenue
north Friday, Nov. 30, and that he was
in Barge's restaurant, with her Satur-
day 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 up stairs
at all that night, and if he was in down
stairs, it was only passing visit on his
way to the street car from Nicollet av-
enue, where the incident of the oranges
occurred. Then Mr.. Hall went into the
holdup, and Harry told his full story Of
that affair.
Wilson Again on the Stand.
At the conclusion of Hayward's testi-