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THE ATT, A NT A GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THAW’S ESCAPE FROM MATTEAWAN ASYLUM COMPLETE Legal Experts Declare He Can Not Be Brought Back From Another State FUGITIVE'S ESTRANGED j WIFE FEARS HE WILL TRY TO KILL HER FOR REVENGE HARRYTHAWAND HIS NOTED WIFE Continued from Page 1. without eating any breakfast, Sims driving the 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 aslsstant 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 Mo 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 clew’s and theories save the Lennox e District Attorneys have begun i for the detention of Thaw if he und in another State. An effort be made to hold Thaw on the ge that he bribed officials at Mat- •ran. ' Evelyn Nesbit Fears Thaw. velyn Nesbit Thaw, estranged j of the fugitive, has hired private actives to guard her Harry Thaw is just as likely to tear at the corner of Broadway and «rty-second street and demand ad ttance to the theater w'here I am tying as he is to go anywhere else,” Id Mrs. Thaw. “He Is dangerous and sperate and I fear him. So do his latives fear him. When I woke up is morning the first thing I did was thank God that 1 had been spared ,y life the night Harry was free, -larry 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 at Poughkeepsie to-day by Justice Morschauser for Richard Butler, Thomas Flood, Eugene Duffy, Mich ael O’Keefe and Roger Thompson. On complaint of District Attorney Conger Asylum Guard Howard H. Barnum, w r ho 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 Escaoe Dramatic. Thaws escape by plot after flve 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 up. District Attorney Whitman says ' Thaw can not be extradited if lo- 1 cated. * 'There is no Indictment pending • against Thaw in New York and he , can not be brought back because he 3 was legally adjudged Insane after be- - lng acquitted of murder,” said Mr. .-J Whitman. A rigid investigation is going on at the Matteawan Institution follow ing ugly hints that Thaw had collu sion inside the instltition to aid his escape. Barnum was grilled so un mercifully that he nearly broke down. * Time after time he declared that he x 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 Statc lnvestigation. 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- el in Beacon, or Fishkill Landing as iUNwas 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 turn- mer and wanted to flm^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 terwrard identified as the reckles* driver of the touring car who took Thaw across the Connecticut! State line at 70 miles an hour. He was the most reckless of the party about the hotel again. From the talk of the men an impression arose that they were professional gun-fighters recruited from gangs in this < Ity and were paid liberally to risk getting Thaw to safety. One of them, after drinking considerably In the barroom „ Saturday fining the men left the 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 Matteaw'an. 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 Matteawan. BIG SENDOFF IS GIVEN PATHFINDERS IS THEY T ’18 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 down 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 at the Holland Hotel, said: “It was his business to help good fellow’s.” Reward of $500 Offered. Following the escape, Superintend ent Raymond F. C. Kieb, of Mnttea- wan Asylum, offered a reward of $500 for Thaw’s arrest as a “dangerous fugivtive.” Dr. Kieb’s belief is that Thaw made his way around Long Island and is now bound for Europe. Dr. Kleb feels that his personal reputation and integrity as a public official are at stake, 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 th© 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 milli 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 visiu The New York police department is keenly interested in the search for Thaw 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 j ^ar* hie 1 with the utmost precision and went} tel and T* through without a hitch. Thaw’ arose at his usual hour Sunday. After h*3 K ^ad taken-hi* breakfast he went Into if the storeroom, where he 1ms been em 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 outsid 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 pnri 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 made, for the. driver climbed .into the machine and was just about to start 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, about a mile farther on the roadster overtook the SO-horsepow er % touring I car which had been seen at the ho- * *~1 and Tnaw was transferred. Then began one of the wildest and 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 officially 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 Mu t tea wan Asylum, where he had been Im prisoned by the State, in an au- mobile and yacht. Both men are of immensely women who had attained promi- wealthy families. Roth 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. persons w’ere nearly run down and killed. Patrick Buckley, who w*as 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. Buckley.” I re- j plied, ‘Good morning, Mr. Thaw; how r | do you feel this morning?’ He walked j among the tables for a few minutes. His manner was Just the same as it had alw’ays been. He was perfectly j 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, j 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 Low’ery’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 w’ith the mechanism, the motor kept humming and there w’ere 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. An early theory that Thaw w’as heading for South America had many things to strengthen it. For some ' time he has been reading books on : South American travel, and Sunday morning before he arose he read parts > of “Over the Andes.” and James 1 Bryce’s “Observations on South America” in bed. Studied Dr. Cook’s Maps. Maps of the route followed by Dr. Frederick Cook, w’hen he w r ent to | South America to avoid detection, j were found in Thaw’s room. Cook went to Chile,’ but Thaw seemed to have a predilection for Brazel. After being put through the “third degree,” Keeper Barnum was placed i under arrest and taken to Poughkeep sie for arraignment before Judge Has- brouck to-day. “It would have been easy for a man i of Thaw's wealth to have corrupted some of the attendants here,” said Dr. Kieb. “1 fear he has done so.” The escape created a tremendous sensation because of the varietyVand stations of persons who have o^en involved in the “Thaw case” in one way or another. Dr. Carlos MacDon ald, the famous alienist, who was an expert witness for the State in the habeas corpus proceedings instituted by Thaw’ last year, declared that Thaw is a public menace. "My belief is that he will return to his old vices,” cald Dr. MacDonald. Cheered by hundreds of lus*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. Fergufion, 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 has been a warmer “pendoff” 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- guwn and party and in the order named. Mayor Woodward, in his pri vate car; Chief Beaveis, Fire Chief Cummings and other city officials, in addition to scores of cars piloted by the drivers w’ho 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 Ea3t 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 w r as no mere parade Here was a man, without a peer in the art of “trail blazing,” starting out for far-away San Francisco, from At lanta—obviously a monster project in which Atlantans should take par ticular pride and one filled with all sorts of possibilities, not only for the Gat© 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-oif which will be heralded all the way to 'Frisco, 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- Hefald and The Houston Daily Post. Mr. Ferguson left Atlanta with vir- j 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, an*1 State Highway Commissioner Keller, who will make the entire trip through Alabama. Arriving at Anniston early Tues day afternoon, Mr. Ferguson and party w’ill 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 bo 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, w’ill meet the party several miles outside of the city and escort it downtown, where a monster dem onstration has been nianned. From Birmingham the tourists will 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 a" 1 San Fran cisco. Mr. Ferguson expects to make San Francfsco 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. 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 awaitlng N them by Austell and Douglasville citizens. A few miles out from Austell they were met by a Douglasville delegation, who esoorted 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 pathfinding party good luck. From Atlanta to the Chattahoochee River the tourists passed over a mag nificent road, while the 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. C. 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 IA Fur Infants and Children. Tha Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Pathfinders Get Big Welcome at Austell. AUSTELL, Aug. 18.—Pathfinder E. L. Ferguson and party arrived in 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. SEABOARD. Grand opening with up - to - date quality and service. All welcomed. Under new manage- Savoy Cafe ment. 34 Peachtree St, Weak, Nervous and Diseased Men Permanently Cured DR. J. D. HUGHES is an experienced spe cialist. 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Total assets of the company, actual cash market value $2,881,206.31 Surplus beyond all liabilities 1.041,072.94 Total liabilities 2,881,206.31 Total income actually received during the first six months in . . . . 1,028.497.38 Total expenditures during the first six months of the year in rash 903,621.74 STATE OF NEW YORK—County of New York. Personally appeared before the undersigned William Hare, w’ho, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the Unked States manager of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Limited, and that the forego ing statement is correct and true. WILLIAM HARE. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13th day of August, 1913. GEO. H. COREY. Comm issioner for the Suite of Georgia. Name of State Agent—AUGUST US WILKERSON. Name of Agent at Atlanta—FRED W. COLE. . .. I* l ’’ - ^ . HAYNES AUCTION Will Last Only a Few Days Longer This is an old-fashioned auction pure and simple, and we have convinced the public of that fact by putting up the goods and selling them for just what they bring. The fact that the store was inadequate to hold the people Friday and Saturday should convince you that there are some rare bargains to this sale. Some of the finest diamonds in the store were sold at a great sacrifice last week and more to be offered daily. Any article put up on request. Beautiful Presents for the Ladies Sales daily at 11 a. m. and 3:30 p. m. EUGENE V. HAYNES CO. JEWELERS 37 WHITEHALL ST. BRIGGS and REID, Auctioneers. (7 4 \