Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-10
REFUSED TO KISS HIM.
So Hayward Murdered His Vile and Killed
Hmself-Was Drunk.

Green Harbor. Jan 9.-The news
published. Saturday morning, of q
murder and suicide in this town. Fri
day night. caused a decided sensation
throughout Plymouth county.
Early Saturday morning, there was
an unusual gathering of curious people
about the 11a-story farm house in this
town in which lay the bodies of Mrs.
Charles A. V. Hayward who was muir
dered by her husband. and of Haywood
himself, who, after killing his wife, cut
his own throat, and died about mid :
night.
1t is doubtful If the peaceful settle
ment in the midst of which lies thu
farm which was once the home of Dan
iel Webster, has ever been more deeply
moved
Officers Baker and Charles II. Free
man are on guard at the Hayward
house, and the bodies of the man ana
woman are in their custody. The oth%i
members Of the Hayward family, in
Guiding Miss Leonard, Mrs. Hayward S
sister and the four children have been
made comparable in the house of a
neishbor. Especial attention is being
given to the stWin babies, only six
weeks old. from whom the care Of tn"
mother has been so grievously taken
away.
Hayward and his wife. with theil
three children, a girl and twins who
were born six weeks ago, and Mrs.
Eayward's son Horny (by her first nus
hand), occupied a small cottage house
where the Rainbow bridge road and
CaresWcll street separate. Across the
street is the Fletcher Webster farm.
Hayward came from Maiden. ana
was about % years old He first locat-
ed on Clark $ island, Plymouth har-
Dor, and worked for Capt. Edward
Watson. He had no trade, but did odd
jobs. Men who worked with him say
he was rather simple minded but gem
orally well behaved. He had a fond
ness for liquor.
Mrs. Hayward was about IS years Old,
She came from Boston. She. too. located
on Clark's island as housekeeper. The
couple came here to live about five years
ago.
Hayward was Intoxicated Friday night.
and was very cross to his wife, although
it was the first day she had been about
the house since the birth of the twins,
ne source ~ lilt titIitl Which, Ith tilt
husband to commit his terrible crime was
because Mrs. Hayward refused to kiss
him on account of his being drunk.
When she persisted in denying him the
desired kiss the rum-crazed man Went
to the shed and procured an axe, Il wood
choppers implement, with very sharp
blade.
Then he returned to the kitchen. which
is in the l. of the house, and attacked his
wife
rrbar. must have heep some kind of q,
struggle for the womans wedding ring,
covered with blood. was found in the
kitchen. Mrs Hayward and her sister
tried to escape. AS Mrs. Hayward fed
her husband dealt her another blow.
Hayward followed his wife. and just ar
she had reached the roadway, he cruched
her skull with a heavy blow of the axe,
and then cut her in several places.
The murderer dragged his wife's bleed
ing corpse inside the yard, leaving it at
the left Of the gateway.
Louis Blanchard was down the road
and saw the woman fan and Hayward
strike her.
Hayward called to him saying. ''Tvr
killed my Wife. and now Tam going in
to cut my own throat" and iiSa ppearcd
The first known in the village. lttlc
Seashore hamlet. in the southeastern part
of MarSh1icld. was when the coach from
IN" evening train came in and Driver Nat
Wright had Nora leonard Mrs HAY
wards sister ana Harry. Mrs. Hayward's
son with him. He had picked them ~
near Rainbow bridge.
The woman was much excited and thr
boy was bleeding from a four-inch wound
in the top of his head.
Miss Leonard and the boy escaped from
the axe of the liquor -craZcd man by
running across the door yard. past the
barn and thence to the road The boy
however. had been struck once and
wounded
\ crowd soon gathered at the house.
but no entrance was made Immediately,
as the murderer and his axe We're thought
to h" inside, Constable John Baker ar
rived and accompanied by others. entered
tn" building, whore the little girl and tbs
babies We're found crying.
No trace of the man was found other
than sanguinarY handprnts and finger
marks on doors and partitions and clotS
ON the floors.
The searcherS soon found Il second lire
of blood marks. showing plainly in the
moonlight and leading from the door
toward the barn. ON the way there. Hay
wards cap was picked up. The small
door of the barn was smcarcd with blood
where the murderer had fumbled over
the latch and then gave up the attempt
TO get in.
\ thorough search Of the building was
made. with no results, and then someone
found that the trail led along the front
of the building, around the corner and
behind small outbuiiding There thc
track tIfitti.
Another search revealed the murd"rrr's
feet prOtrudng from beneath the out
building.
The man was pulled ont. ana found ID
have three gaping wounds in his throat
He was not dead. but walked to the
house, sinking unconscious upon tho
threshold.
DR. y. X. Noyes of Duxbury. and Dr
- ~ Stark of Marshheld. We're sum
moned. and Medical Examiner Edgar
Dwight Hill of Plymouth was notified.
The woman was at once pronounced
dead. Her wounds consisted of five cuts
from the axe on the head and face.
The surgeons went to work on the muir
derer's neck, which he had gashcd three
times with razor. Sixteen stitches
closed the wounds, but after the opera
ton was completed the man failed rapid
~ and died at ll.20 O'Clock.
JIMMY CHARLES LIED.