The Irish standard., 1896-01-04
"a sense of repentance for his horrible
crimes, he attempted a feeble defense 0f

4 Ills conduct. Ills conscience, ne SctIu, iE-
cllsed him Of no crime, inasmuch as he
had caused the girl no pain or sorrow
! that she had passed odlt of this world
without any suffering, and had not been
robbed of anything She had a right to
have. When I, shocked at his cold in
difference ito his own condition, reminded
him that he had robbed an honest and
confding girl CT the first and dearest
right that God gave her, namely the right
ITO life, he simply replied: That all de-
pends on how you look at It.. He seemed
to regard it as a weakness, or cowardice,
| to manifest any sign of repentance OF
sorrow for his crimes.
II studied the doomed man very care
fully, and saw him very frequently dur
ing the eight months, or more, that he
| spent in our county jail and it is my
| firm conviction that Harry Hayward was
! no more insane than is Col. r. G. lnger-
! soil, OF than was the impenitent thief on
the cross. I mention the braggart apostle
of irreligion, for Harry claimed to be a.
great admirer, and a disciple for many
years, OF the mischievous agnoshic. Harry
was the logical fruit of irrel;gion. II
there be no God, no immortal soul, no flu
| ture life of retributiye justice, and il we
| do not or cannot find out whether there
| is or not, Harry Hayward was no crimi-
nal, and our laWs and all the institutions
| on which our enlightened civilization IS
| builded, ane wrong. Il may be said that
| it is unfair to charge irreligion or agnos-
ticism with the guilt Of forming a crimi-
! ral like Hayward, as so many criminals,
| who make loud profession of religion,
have been led to the scatfold. But we
must bear we'll in mind that Hayward
tc,1 r; ,,1or o.ir
| justified by his creed that c0mforted him
| with the thought that there might live
| no God to punish him, and NO eternity
through which his sin-stained soul might
wander, branded with the marks Of it's
Infamous guilt. The believer in God and
a hereafter commits his crimes con-
demned by his creed. He is guilty of do
ing wrong, in spite of his convictions.
The unbeliever commits crime, because
his disregard of all convictions or true
principles encourages him to hope that
there is no court OF justice that can reach
him when this ftful life has ended.
Hayward unblushingly claimed that
he considered it no more of a crime to kill
human being than it would be to kill
cat, and if Col. Ingersolls theories are
correct his distinguished pupil was not
far wrong. 1t has been stated that Hay
ward was abnormal whatever may be
meant by the term. He was abnormal
in the sense that every man is abnormal
who dies not resthain his worst passions
and slrrenders himself a victim to the
vile impulses that take root in corrupt
heart. -..-
'Harry knew but two dominating
forces of his nature, and they were his
merciless masters, and he their deluded
;ot:p Ono
suming greed for money and the other
was untamed lust It was not part Of his
creed that either passion should ever be
| brought under the dominion of reason.
| No sadder record can be found than the
one that has been made by these two con-
trolling passions in bringing young
man at the age of 20, in the bloom of
youth. and on the threshold Of llfes
promise, to the scaffold.
God had we'll endowed the young man.
He had fair talents, splendid physical
health, good opportunities and still the
community in which he was rerared that
knew him from Ooyhood could dispose OF
him and his natural abilities in NO better
way than to execute hm on the galows,
because his uncontrolled passions had
rendered him a menace to his fellow men.
The tender sympathy of the entire COM
munity, must go out to his poor, heart
broken mother, and to his afflicted father,
in their desolate sorrow. The heart Of
stole must feel profound sympathy for
the parents of such a son. [ feel that
it is due to the parents and the entire
family to state that their department in
connection with the entire sad affair
must confirm he coincidence Of the COM
munity for them The tender delicacy
with which they have carefully guarded
everything that belonged to the unfortu-
nate man and saved it from becoming
vulgar spectacle for the sensational and
lnprbidly curious must commend itself
to the admiration of every right thinking
person in this community.
.No matter how intense our horror for
the crimes OF which poor, unfortunate
Harry was convicted, was cannot fail to
feel even for him a tender and sorrowful
sympathy. His sad fate was not so much
the result of a naturally corrupt and
vicious heart, as 1T was the logical result
of the neglect of religious and moral in
fluences. His tender devotion to his aged
father and his gentleness toward his
gr;ef-stricken mother were unmistakable
evidences OF his better nature.
Notwithstanding the terrible crime
which Harry committed against Miss
CIl1TS, Ice.l IIltL cleuAl ID luz ulu1 LOi Aea
ing so stoutly defended her good name.
1t has occurred to me as little strange,
to say the least, that no one seems to have,
doubted Harry's statement about
Miss Ging's connection with his
gambling schemes or green goods busj-
ness, He states in his confession that
she was slow TO act, suspicious, cautious,
etc. Yet he would have the public be-
Slieye that he fooled her into accepting
his story about diamonds in pawn in New
York. OF course, no one who knew him
believes IN the integrity of the confession.
Those who knew Miss Cling cannot be-
lieve his statement about her completely
in any Of his wild or dishonest schemes.
The public VIII never know what scheme,
he worked to induce the honest girl TO
take that ill-fated ride cannot believe
that Miss Cling ever sanctioned, or knew
ANYTHING Of the gambling, or dishonest
schemes which he discussed with SO much
Ieyity and unconcern. Under some pre-
text or other he had secured some three.
or four thousand dollars Of her money.
She, sevident1y, was anxious about 1t.
Plainly, under some pretext Of getting
her money for her, he induced her to take
the fatal ride. /. Rlt the: whole truth we.
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could enli ;kftah:: The p!ibais' kaye entered
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