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THAW’S ESCAPE FROM MATTEAWAN ASYLUM COMPLETE
Legal Experts Declare He Can Not Be Brought Back From Another State
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Aug.
18.—A warrant charging Harry
K. Thaw with conspiracy in con
nection with hit escape from Mat-
teawan was issued this afternoon
to District Attorney Conger, of
Dutchess County, who will at
tempt to use it as the basis of an
indictment. If Thaw is captured
In another State, said the Dis
trict Attorney, an effort will be
made to extradite him on the
conspiracy charge. It was said
that another warrant charging
bribery would be demanded.
NEW YORK. Aug. 18.—Harry K.
Thaw, who escaped Sunday from the
Matteawan Asylum for the criminal
Insane, to-day wrote to his mother.
Mrs. William Copley Thaw, at the
Hotel Gotham, in this city, saying
he was well and that h© would meet
her at Elmhurst, the Thaw summer
home at Cresson, Pa.
Mrs. Thaw said she would leave
at 9:25 to-morrow morning for Elm
hurst. Thaw’s note was in an en
velope apparently addressed by one
of the men who had aided him to
escape. It had been mailed from
Rtation O in this city at midnight
Sunday.
Over the top Thaw had written:
"Night letter. Fifty words. Twenty-
five cents.” He had evidently in
tended to send it by telegraph. The
note was addressed to Mrs. William
Thaw, Hotel Gotham, New York
City, and read as follows:
All well; will take a rest before
going to Elmhurst, as I might be
asked for interviews and do not
wish to refuse, yet do not care
to make any statement. Hope H.
and G. arrived safe and that you
will go home together. Have
sent short note to New York
Evening Journal. H. T. K.
Thaw, together with a man be
lieved to be Dr. W. B. Holden, of No.
220 West Ninety-eighth street, spent
the night at the Lennox Hotel in
Lennox, Mass., according to Richard
A. Stanley, proprietor of a hotel there.
About 8 o’clock a dust covered Palm
er-Singer touring car containing two
men drove up to the Lennox Hotel,
which is a favorite stopping place
for tourists in that section of New
England. One man registered as
W. B. Holden, /it New York and
the other as P. H. Sims.
They spen*. (he night there, leaving
about 6:30 o’clock this morning in
the direction of Pittsfield. Their car
had tha' appearance of hard usage
and both men wer© stained and
travel weary. Sims avoided other
gu,vsts and refused to enter the din
ging room.
Identified by Picture.
This morning when newspapers
bearing the picture of Thaw were re
ceived at the hotel, Stanley at once
id ptifled "Sims” as Thaw. Over the
I dist.vpce t«i—'vne it was said by
4l both men left
„... r —any breakfast, Sims
driving 'he car.
At Dr. Holden’s office it was said
that he is out of town making an au
tomobile tour. He was last heard
from near Saratoga, it was said, when
his automobile had broken down.
Dr. Holden’s asisstant denied that
the doctor knew Harry Thaw.
The news from Lennox effectually
stopped a search of the seas by wire
less, as it was evident that the clews
to the effect that Thaw sailed from
South Norwalk, Conn., in a yacht with
a yellow funnel were false.
He had also been reported from
Danbury, Conn., and Newport, R. I.
but the authorities threw aside all
clews and theories save the Lennox
trail.
The District Attorneys have begun
plans for the detention of Thaw if he
is found in another State. An effort
will be made to hold Thaw on the
charge that he bribed officials at Mat
teawan.
Evelyn Nesbit Fears Thaw.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, estranged
wife of the fugitive, has hired private
detectives to guard her.
“Harry Thaw is Just as likely to
appear at the corner of Broadway and
Forty-second street and demand ad
mittance to the theater where I am
playing as he is to go anywhere else,”
*aid Mrs. Thaw. “He is dangerous and
desperate and I fear him. So do his
relatives fear him. When I woke up
this morning the first thing I did was
to thank God that I had been spared
my life the night Harry was free.
Harry can not be quieted over 24
hours. If he is on a yacht I will feel
safer, but he has all the cunning of
a maniac and it would be just like him
to throw off his pursuers by pretend
ing to sail for some foreign country.
Thaw's escape proves that if one has
money he can do anything."
Charging conspiracy in helping
Thaw to escape, warrants were issued
Poughkeepsie to-day by Justice
for Richard Butler,
Flood. Eugene Duffy, Mich-
Roger Thompson,
nt of District Attorney
lum Guard Howard H.
Barnum, who saw Thaw escape, was
held on charges of bribery and neg
lect as a public officer. It was Bar
num who was at the asylum gates as
Thaw fled.
Thaw's Escane Dramatic.
Thaws escape by plot after five
years of futile fighting In the New
York courts combine all the roman
tic and sensational elements of fiction.
From the moment that he dashed
through the gates, eluding Keeper H.
H. Barnum, while milk was being de
livered at the Institution, Thaw dis
appeared as completely as though the
earth had swallowed him ip.
District Attorney Whitman says
Thaw can not he extradited if lo
cated.
“There Is no Indictment pending
againet Thaw In New York and he
can not be brought back because he
was legally adjudged insane after be
ing acquitted of murder,” said Mr.
HARRY THAW AND
HIS NOTED WIFE
Whitman.
A rigid investigation is going on
at the Matteawan Institution follow
ing ugly hints that Thaw had collu
sion inside the lnstitition to aid his
escape. Barnum was grilled so un
mercifully that he nearly broke down.
Time after time he declared that he
used every means in his power to keep
the prisoners safely. It was said that
application would be made both to
Governor Sulzer and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Glynn at Albany for a State
investigation.
The only satisfactory method of
finding Thaw-, according to the police,
is to fix the identity of the men who
were waiting for him outside the
institution with two automobiles.
Something is known of these men.
Ten days ago two men calling them
selves Richard J. Butler and Michael
O’Keefe, appeared at the Holland Ho
tel lh Beacon, or Fishklll Landing as
it was formerly known. They spent
money freely and devoted considera
ble time to scouting about* the coun
try.
In answer to queries they said they
were preparing to locate for the sum
mer and wanted to find a quiet, rest
ful spot. Friday evening they re
turned in an eighty-horsepower auto
mobile. The size and strength of the
car also caused much curiosity. They
had with them men who registered
as Roger Thompson and Eugene Duf
fy. A little later the party was Joined
by a fifth man. who registered as
Thomas Flood. It was he who took
the launch to Beacon. Flood was af
terward Identified as the reckless
driver of the touring car who took
Thaw across the Connecticutt State
line at 70 miles an hour. He was the
most reckless of the party.
Saturday morning the men left the
Holland early and were not seen
about the hotel again. From the talk
of the men an impression arose that
they were professional gun-fighters
recruited from gangs in this city and
were paid liberallv to risk getting
Thaw to safety. One of them, after
drinking considerably in the barroom
at the Holland Hotel, said: "It was
his bu§ine:*4/to help good fellows.”
Rewof $500 Offered.
Following vie escape, Superintend-
• '‘* v .
keenly interested in the search for
Thaw r and have sento ut a general
alarm with a description of the fugi
tive. The detective bureau will flood
the country with circulars bearing
Thaw’s picture.
Escape Made Without Hitch.
The escape of Thaw was planned
with the utmost precision and went
through without a hitch. Thaw arose
at his usual hour Sunday. After ho
had taken his breakfast he went into
the storeroom, where he has been em-
ent Raymond F. C. Kieb, of Mattea
wan Asylum, offered a reward of $500
for Thaw’s arrest as a "dangerous
fugivt4ve."
Dr. Kieb’s belief is that Thaw' made
his way around Long Island and is
now bound for Europe. Dr. Kieb
feels that his personal reputation and
integrity as a public official are at
6take, and has personally hired a
private detective agency to trail
Thaw'.
So closely has Roger O’Mara, the
Pittsburg private detective, been con
nected with Thaw since the shoot
ing of White that some persons
jumped to th conclusion that O’Mara
was concrnd in some* way with
Thaw’s escape. This was heightened
by the fact that one of the men at
the Holland Hotel slightly resem
bled him. Another posed as “Roger”
Thompson. A Pittsburg telegram
states, however, that O’Mara was In
Pittsburg yesterday.
Mrs. Mary Thaw, mother of Harry
K. Thaw, who has spent nearly a
milll nodollars in trying to restore
his liberty, was surprised to learn of
her son’s escape. She said she had
come here In response to a requst
from Harry that she pay him a visk.
The New York police department is
Harry Thaw Joins
John A.Chaloner’s
‘Who’s Looney’Club
Harry Kendall Thaw now is
eligible for membership in the
“Who’s Looney Now?” Club of
which John Armstrong Chaloner
is charter and only member up to
date.
The cases of Thaw and Chaloner
are remarkable in their similarity.
Each of them is offitMally insane
in New York. Neither of them are
insane, officially, anywhere else.
Chaloner escaped from Bloom-
ingdale Asylum , where he had
been imprisoned by relatives, in a
gasoline launch.
Thaw escaped from Matteawan
Asylum, where he had b/?en im
prisoned by the State, in an au-
mobile ar.d yacht.
Both men are of immensely
women who had attained promi-
wealthy families. Both married
nence before their marriage. Ame-
lie Rives, Chaloner’s wife, was
noted as a novelist. Evelyn Nes
bit. Thaw’s wife, had achieved
fame as a stage beauty and artist’s
model.
Chronology of the
Famous Thaw Case
June 25, 1906—Thaw shot Stan
ford White.
June 26. 1906—Thaw In Tombs
prison.
June 28, 1906—Indicted for mur
der in first degree.
January 23, 1907—First trial be
gins.
April 4, 1907—Commission de
clares him sane.
April 12, 1907—Jury disagrees.
January 11, 1908—Second trial
begins.
February 1, 1908—Verdict: Not
guilty, on the ground of insanity.
February 2, 1907—First day in
Matteawan.
May 25, 1908—First habeas cor
pus hearing decided against him.
August 19, 1909—Second habeas
corpus hearing decided against
him.
June 8, 1912—Transferred to
Westchester Jail.
June 17, 1912—Third habeas cor
pus decided against him.
May 17, 1913-—John M. Anhut, a
New York attorney, convicted of
offering $20,000 bribe for Thaw’s
release from asylum.
August 17, 1913-—Thaw escapes
from Matteaw'an.
ployed to do odd jobs. After spend
ing a few minutes there, he went into
the exercising yard. He wore a straw
hat, which was usual for him, and he
was otherwise attired for the outside.
Keeper Barnum was in the- yard at
the time.
In a listless voice Thaw bid the
keeper good-morning and remarked
about the heat.
Then he took several turns up and
down the inclosure and leaned against
the gate. For many months Thaw
had assumed the same attitude at the
same spot and Barnum paid no par
ticular attention to him. At 7:45 the
milkman who supplied the institution
with milk drove up and rang the
gong. Barnum looked through the
peephole, saw who it was and opened
the gate. No sooner had the milkman
entered than Thaw galvanized into
activity. With the spring of a pan
ther he was through the gate.
Just a short time before a roadster
apparently had broken down outside
the asylum’s gate. The driver got
down beneath the machine and was
tinkering with it when the milk wag
on drove up.
As soon as the institution’s gate
opened the repairs apparently were
j made, for the driver climbed into the
machine and was just about to start
j when Thaw bounded through the
gate.
Wild Race for Liberty.
The fugitive leaped into the ma
chine, instantly the power was turned
on and the machine sprang forward,
alfout a mile farther on the roadster
overtook the 80-horsepower touring
car which had been seen at the ho
tel and Thaw was transferred.
Then began one of the wildest and
most spectacular automobile rides In
history. At Stormville, ten miles east
of Matteawan, persons declared that
five men surrounded Thaw in the
touring car and that each clasped
a revolver in his hand, evidently pre
pared to shoot clown anyone who In
terfered with the car’s progress. Pe
destrians and carriage drivers east of
Stormville said the touring car was
going nearly 80 miles an hour. Many
persons were nearly run down and
killed.
Patrick Buckley, who was in charge
of the storeroom yesterday at Mattea
wan, said that Thaw gave no indi
cation of excitement.
“He came into the storeroom about
9 o’clock,” said Buckley. "He said
good morning, Mr. B uckley.” I re
plied, ‘Good morning, Mr. Thaw; how
do you feel this morning?’ He walked
among the tables for a few minutes.
His manner was just the same as it
had always been. He was perfectly
calm.”
In fact, but two employees of the
institution did see Thaw gain his lib
erty. They were Keeper Barnum and
Mrs. James Maher, a laundress who
was in a high tower overlooking the
exercise grounds and the roadway.
According to Mrs. Maher’s story,
two automobiles, one a touring car,
and another a roadster, passed the
hospital shortly after 7 o’clock. The
roadster stopped in front of the gate
while the big six-cylinder car sped
on to the foot of Lowery’s Hill, almost
a mile beyond the hospital.
There it stopped and the doors on
both sides were opened for quick ac
tion. Mrs. Maher kept her eyes on
the machine outside the gates. Al
though the driver got out and began
to tinker with the mechanism, the
motor kept humming and there were
many loud explosions from the ex
haust.
William Hickey’s milk cart rumbled
up to the gate w’hile the roadster’s
motor was humming and thumping.
Mrs. Maher said that as Thaw dashed
through the gate he waved his arms
and cried, “Go, go! For God’s sake,
go!”
Keeper Barnum was stunned for a
moment by the quickness of the es
cape. Then he notified Superintend
ent Keb, who called up the Sheriff
and notified police headquarters in
this city.
Thaw got fully ten minutes start on
his pursuers, being headed straight
•for Connecticut.
BIG SENDOFF IS GIVEN
PATHFINDERS US THEY
Cheered by hundreds of lu?*ty-
volced good roads rooters and with
the martial strains of the Fifth Reg
iment band and the hearty good
wishes and godspeeds of scores of
Atlanta's most prominent citizens and
officials ringing in his ears, E. L.
Ferguson, official "pathfinder” for
the all-Southern open-the-year-round
transcontinental highway, Monday
morning glided up Alabama street to
Peachtree for the start of the long
auto-hike to San Francisco.
Mr. Ferguson’s "official” family
consisted of Mrs. Ferguson, two little
Fergusons and Hugh Grant, repre
senting The Sunday American, In-
augurator of the monster campaign,
who will accompany the party as far
as Birmingham.
There seldom haf» been a warmer
"senuoff” than that prepared for
"Pathfinder” Ferguson and party on
Monday morning. All were in readi
ness—those entered in the last week,
including the Mayor, the chief of po
lice and the fire chief—and scores of
other prominent citizens and autoists
besides.
Makeup of the Parade.
First came the Fifth Regiment
band, followed by the trans-con
tinental car occupied by Mr. Fer
guson and party and in the order
named, Mayor Woodward, in his pri
vate car; Chief Beavers, Fire Chief
Cummings and other city officials, in
addition to scores of cars piloted by
the drivers who compete from time
to time at the ’Drome. A number of
motorcyclists were also in the line of
march.
Stretched out on long, snaky Peach
tree, after the departure from The
Georgian-American office on East
Alabama street, the parade assumed
an imposing appearance, much to the
delight and admiration of enthusias
tic citizens.
The crowd caught the “drift” of
the affair. This was no mere parade
Here was a man, without a peer in
the art of "trail blazing,” starting out
for far-away San Francisoo. from At
lanta—obviously a monster project
In which Atlantans should take par
ticular pride &nd one filled with all
sorts of possibilities, not only for the
Gate City of the South, but the entire
Southland, including the great South
west, and the Pacific Coast country.
Big Papers Behind Project.
With these things in mind they
gave this man Ferguson a send-olf
which will be heralded all the way
to ’FYIhco. through the medium of a
score of leading Southern newspa
pers. including The Georgian and
American, The Birmingham News,
The Montgomery Advertiser. The
New Orleans Item, The Dallas Times-
Herald and The Houston Daily Post.
Mr. Ferguson left Atlanta with vir
tually every detail of the first lap to
Birmingham complete. Traveling al
most due west from Atlanta, the par
ty will reach the Georgia-Alabama
line at Tallapoosa late Monday after
noon. Here the party will spend the
night, resuming the journey early
Tuesday morning in company with
President John Craft, of the Ala
bama Good Roads Association, and
State Highway Commissioner Keller,
who will make the entire trip through
Alabama.
Arriving at Anniston early Tues
day afternoon, Mr. Ferguson and
party will be received officially ny
the Mayor, the president of the
Chamber of Commerce and other
prominent citizens and officials. The
Alabama city, it is understood, has
planned a big reception for the tour
ists following a lively campaign con
ducted recently in the interest of
good roads between Anniston an I
Birmingham.
Birmingham Plans Greeting.
In line with tentative plans, as
a result\of a choice of two routes be
tween Anniston and Birmingham, Mr.
Ferguson probably will decide to
spend Tuesday night in Anniston,
leaving there Wednesday morning.
Pell City and Riverside will oe
reached in the order named; Wed
nesday night will be passed en route,
and Birmingham, the end of the first
lap of the lone- journey, will be
reached shortly before noon Thurs
day.
If reports are accurate, the Magic
City goou roads boosters will give the
transcontinental tourists a reception
and send-off never before equaled in
the Alabama metropolis. Prominent
officials of the Alabama Good Roads
Association, city and county officials,
representatives of The Birmingham
News and others, headed by Nappi’s
Band, will meet the party several
miles outside of the city and escort
it downtown, where a monster dem
onstration has been nlanned.
From Birmingham the tourists w r ill
go direct to Montgomery, where Gov
ernor O’Neal, a good roads enthusi
ast, will receive them officially.
The remainder of the route will in
clude Mobile, New Orleans, Dallas,
Houston, El Paso, Phoenix, San
Diego, Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco. Mr. Ferguson expects- to make
San Francisco by October 1, perhaps
sooner, after which he will return to
Atlanta to begin a second trip to
check up the results obtained on the
first.
Apprehension as to possible blow
outs, with resulting delays along the
long route, were allayed Monday
morning through the generosity of
J. H. Kelly, of the Republic Rubber
Company, who has offered to furnish
Mr. Ferguson any number of Stag-
gard-Tread tires throughout the en
tire trip.
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Sunday American
Lauded for Project
NEW ORLEANS, Aug 18.—To
the Editor Hearst’s Sunday Amer
ican:
Hearty congratulations to you
for enterprise and constructive ef
fort shown by your interest in
Southern transcontinental high
way project and good roads move
ment. Glad to be associated with
you in this work.
We believe this aids the devel
opment of automobile industry,
increases communication between
the rural districts and cities and
insures consequent increases In
realty values and prosperity in
general.
THE NEW ORLEANS ITEM,
A. G. Newmeyer, Manager.
Austell at 12:30 o’clock Monday aft
ernoon on the first stage of The
Hearst Sunday American transconti
nental tour, and found a royal wel
come awaiting them by Austell and
Douglasville citizens. A few miles
out from Austell they were met by a
Douglasville delegation, who escorted
them into Austell and on to Doug
lasville. The party was scheduled to
reach Douglasville at 1:30 o’clock,
where a reception and a dinner
awaited them.
The trip from Atlanta to Austell
was made in good shape. Four miles
out from Atlanta a halt was made and
the group of Atlanta escorts enjoyed
a watermelon cutting. Talks were
made by Mayor Woodward and Chief
of Police Beavers, and everyone
wished the pathflnding party good
luck.
From Atlanta tc the Chattahoochee
River the tourists passed over a mag
nificent road, while ihe dirt road from
the river to Austell was In fairly
good shape. Reports here are that
a good road will be found all the
way to Tallapoosa, where the stop
for the night will be made.
The Douglasville delegation was
led by Mayor L. G. Upshaw, President
J. T. Dake, of the Douglasville Com
mercial Club; R. E. Edwards, bank
er; J. F. Long, superintendent of
the Douglasville Cotton Mill; J. M.
Banks, merchant, and J. T. Lee and
A. L. Gresham, County Commission
ers.
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AUSTELL, Aug. 18.—Pathfinder E.
L. Ferguson and party arrived in
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