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*1 i nr, a 1 ijiYiv i a WLunuiAi^ als u in n, vv o, 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. Savoy) Cafe Grand opening with up - to - date quality and service. All welcomed. Under new manage- 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. CASTOR i A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Sought Bears the Signature of Pathfinders Get Big Welcome at Austell. AUSTELL, Aug. 18.—Pathfinder E. L. Ferguson and party arrived in J POPULAR EXCUR SION TO WRIGHTS- VILLE BEACH. $6 round trip; six days; Satur day, August 23. Special train, sleepers and coaches. Leave 6 p. m. Make reservations early. 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