Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-09
Los ANGELES IIERAID MONDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER
WOMAN HAS
BAD RECORD
sMILINeLY coNFEssEs Al LONG
LIST OF CRIMES
Admits She strangIed Man to Death
with Her Own Hands and
Glorles In the
Deed

r LILLIAN HAYWARD, the wickedest
l woman in Los Angeles, in her cell
IA at the Grand opera house yesterday
confessed to the commission of crimes
for which papal indu,gences, under the
old cash system, would havebankrupted
Rockefeller. Murder, arson, thievery
all these and more she confessed. Her
story constitutes a remarkable addition
to the criminal history of the times. 1t
is tale Of human depravity, of un-
morality, for the woman Is not immoral.
She is without morals.
Her first crime was committed so far
back that she has no distinct recollection
of It, She declares, however, that the
criminal instinct always was uppermost
In her nature-perhaps hereditary taint,
though both her father and mother had
good regulations In the community in
which they lived
Personally the Hayward woman does
not look like criminal. Her appearance
is that of we'll educated, gentle woman.
Phrenologists have found nothing in the
contour of her skull to account for her
remarkable career Students of ply
siogpomy declare her face to be equally
deceptive.
Her Criminal Record
Yet this woman has a criminal record
that reaches from the Pacific to the
Atlantic and beyond. Because Of muir
der committed In Alaska she was pursued
from Dawson City to New York and there
escaped, just when the police were sure
they had her in their net. She has been
arrested more times than she can re-
member. Occasionally she has been con-
victed and sentenced to states prison.
Twice she has turned stale's evidence and
thus has escaped punishment for her
crimes
But the prison has not been built that
can hold Miss Hayward for long. Sing
Sing, Joliet, San Quentin, Saltwater, all
these have known her and from them all
she has made her escape with apparent
ease. How she does 1t is her secret.
The woman's record is well known To-
cally. However, a brief recapitulation
of the crimes charged against her and
which she has now confessed may not be
amiss.
Threw Man from Window
In New York she threw man bodily
from window ten stories above ground.
taking him unawares from behind. Her
victims neck was broken by the fall
Two men and three women have met
death at the point of her dagger.
Ten persons have fallen mortally
wounded when she pressed the trigger of
her revolver. R
Twice she has thrown vitriol into the
faces of men who had loved her, and one
of them died asa result of the burns.
Three women seven men and two chill
dren have succumbed to poison admins
| tered by her hand.
\ One man she chohed to death, first
stupefying him with drink.
With their own pillows she smothered
| to death two little children
| Two. men, in this country have beer
sent to the ecaffold by her perjured testi
mony, and one, in France, to the guillo
tine.
i In an iron foundry, in Pennsylvania. sh
| pushed too persistent lover into moltel
metal and laughed as he died.
i Once she starved small boy to,-deatl
and as the child was dying fiendishly at
hearty dinner before his fast dullinl
eyes.
This in brief, is the record of Lilliar
| Hayward. Yet today the woman car
laugh and with a careless jest discuss hel
crimes.
Punishment Follows
1t must not be thought, however that
| Miss Hayward has gone unpunished
| Since the melodramatic season opened
she has been sentenced to life imprisor-
ment some half dozen times. She has
DeeD .-Snot ana Killed tnr1ce. once she
| died natural death. Once she was
strangled. when in the paroxysms of de-
| lirium tremens; twice she was stabbed in
a vital spot; and once, in Behind the
Mask" she was permitted to live happily
ever AFTER This was unique exper-
fence which the actress will not soon for
get. Once she was married and five times
she got as far as the altar, only to have
the marriage ceremony interrupted.
All these things she accepts philosophi-
caliy as part of the days work-which,
indeed, they are.
IT enjoy crime she confessed without
tremor, when the question was put to
her; mot half way crimes. but down
right wickedness. I've no use for these
namby-pamby, nasty-nice women, who
for them. They're no good. II killing
| Is to be done want to do it myself. I've
reformed frequently, but it does no good,
l always backslide the next week; so
what's the use?
Why W omen Sin
'"The woman who is wicked is so be-
cause she enjoys sleeping on rose leaves
and because she wants the truffes out of
the pate And she. gets them. or course
she is punished in the end, but mean
time she fares much better than the
heroine.
Il was compelled to play leads in me,o-
drama once and didn't like them. When
ever the villain in the piece got me in his
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