The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-06

avenue to kenw0od aud wait for him,
When Ito came | was to follow him.
l'tottysoon ! saw him coming across q
lnt and ! followed him. Then he
stopped Mt buggy and cnme IN and
ho tod mo to get into It aud drive along,
| got In and he said 10 keep our heads
inside. Then he said to Miss Cling:
This man IL in tho gang Then wo
drove out Iiennepin avenue and | did
not SEQ him again until aiterward.
Alter awhile ehe asked mo Il
Hayward was buying green goods.
| told hor | did not know, She
nsked mo what | had down
thoro by my aide and said
revolver ,hat Harry told me
to take. She kept looking out all
tho time md kent thinking. |. was
fight in my head all the time. Thought
would got out and then thought OF
my wife and stayed in tho buggy.
tried ton times to do 1t and Il was al.
ways fighting in my head. L
finally fired and tho shot
hit her whore he said /
should. Then she threw her head back
Ike this. | went on about thirty or
forty yards further, and then | thought
I'd have TO rot Eer out. moved her
legs so, thon she wont out, 30, and
struck hcr head on the whoel, and then
she wont over on the ground"
At tho afternoon session Blixt was
again put on the stand and asked to tell
any part Of the story he had forgotten
In the morning. He said: "a day or
two hiter the murder Harry came down
stairs and | asked him II he could hold
out. He said he hnd been in the sweat
box, but that he would not give way,
not in forty years. He asked me II nv
wife could be bought, and | told him
that she did not know anything, and il
she did she could not be bought Once
he said: III can't do anything else I'll
have rheumatism. I'll have it SO bad
the doctor will say SO. II they come to
mo and touch me I'll say l can't be
moved"
WISHED HIN TO COMMIT MURDER.
Blixt said that on ono occasion when
he wanted some new skates and clothes
that Hayward had told him if he
(Blixt) would go out and xii! any man,
woman or child, and show him tho
place he would give him 500.
"What else did lie say?"
swell. he said that he would give me
s. II I'd go and burn the barn. 1t was
right across the street. Afterwards he
said that he had an affidavit, sworn TO
before notary public and il l ever told
anything on MIN he would put me in
states prison for ten years. Harry said
he wanted some excitement"
MIR. Erwin then began n searching
aross.examlnation. He frat drew ou,
that BIixt Ind told his story to ut least
six people, including the city attorneys.
the sheriff, the iailor and his own at
torney. Erwin questioned him closely
about the sweating process to which he
was subjected before the confession was
drawn from him. But the lawyer tried
in vain TO shake his original story; he
repeated it without substantial altera-
tion. He said he was 4 changed man
now and happy man. He knew he
was forgiven. and had home with God
in heaven. He was telling the truth
now, although he had lied in his first
confession.
"What did those men do who we're
with you ?" thundered Erwin.
There were not any men with me.n
Blixt said the clothes he had on were
the ones he wore that night, being the
only ones he had. Erwin a. once
offered them in evidence. The iury
examined them and found what they
thought might be minute spots OF blood.
Erwin asked that Bixt's coat remain
in the court room.