Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1895 — MISS GING’S MURDER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MISS GING’S MURDER.

REVELATIONS IN THE MINNEAPOLIS TRAGEDY. Assassin Is Claus A. Blixt-Hired by Harry T. Hayward—Crime Exposed by Confession of the Latter’s Brother—Blixt Tells All. Killed for Insurance. The Minneapolis grand jury began Monday the investigation of the Ging murder case. The officials have practically given up hope of wringing a confession from Harry Hayward, and it seems certain that the case will come to trial in due time, in which event it is likely to become a celebrated case in murder trial annals. Harry Hayward is apparently determined to fight the thing out to the bitter end, and few more developments are expected before the case comes to trial. Adry A. Hayward, brother of the accused, made a confession, in which he declares that the fearful crime was deliberately planned by his brother, Harry, and that the bloody deed was committed by C. A. Blixt, the engineer of the Ozark flats. The motive for the crime was the securing of the insurance on the murdered woman's life. Adry’s confession shows that prior to the murder Harry had arranged all the details of the loans he had made her, the evidence, the life insurance, etc., in such a manner that it would appear to the public afterward that it was all open and above board. Time and time again Harry made personal appeals to Adry, but the latter always told him he could never carry out such a scheme as getting rid of

the girl without hanging for it. Harry grew very angry at Adry’s repeated opposition and finally threatened to murder him if he resisted. After this Adry supposed the scheme had been dropped. It was not until three days before the day of the murder that he realized that the plot was still incubating. Blixt’s Confession. Engineer Blixt was arrested and confined in a cell in the Central Police Station, away from all intruders. After being subjected to the sweating process Blixt confessed that he fired the fatal shot himself. He says that Hayward had persuaded Miss Ging that “green goods” could be easily circulated through the medium of her business as a dressmaker, and she, having always had an insane idea to get rich easily, fell in with the idea. The night of the murder Hayward told her that he had arranged for her to meet a “green goods” dealer on the outskirts of the city. They started off on the ride together. About twelve blocks from the Ozark flats they met Blixt. Hayward induced her to let Blixt drive her to the place of meeting, with the assurance to her that he would himself follow immediately in another buggy and be present at the meeting. Blixt then drove the woman out to the old Excelsior road, and called her attention to a passing object. As she turned her head to look out of her side of the buggy he shot her. The body was then thrown out by the side of the road. Hayward, instead of following Blixt and Miss Ging, returned to the Ozark flats, and afterw’ard went to the theater with the daughter of a prominent Minneapolis attorney.

MISS CATHERINE GINO. (The pretty dressmaker who was brutally murdered for her money.)