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THAW SPENDS THREE HOURS OF FREEDOM DODGING JEROME
Matteawan Asylum Fugitive’s Wild Auto Dash tor Liberty Fails
BUTTLE AGIST
EXTRADITION
MATTEAWAN FUGITIVE
SNAPPED IN CANADA
HARRY K. THAW.
New Hampshire Governor Says
He Will Act on Opinion of
Attorney Genera!.
Continued from Page 1 .
the newspaper part} which had picked
Thaw up at Nortons Mills.
After his luncheon Thaw went to
the lobby of the Mondanock House,
where he had eaten, and ordered a
cigar.
Jeron.e on the Way.
Jerome was* expected to arrive here
some time in the afternoon and im
mediately begin his fight on United
States soil to have Thaw extradited
into New York State on the con
trary warrant «'worn out in Dutch
cue County, New York, immediately
after his escape from Matteawan
Asylum.
In the meantime Thaw was kept
under the eye of the Sheriff. Thaw
said he would make no objections to
going to the combination Jail and
courthouse, as he intended to tignt
legally against his return to New
York.
“I can not talk about my trip here
from the border." said Thaw. ‘‘Sont»
friends tried to help me, but the roads
up here must have been pattern^.,
after a cobw'eb.
*‘I was so hungry and tired and
cramped that I had to get out of the
machine at Little Schoolhouse. I was
going to ask some directions, for we
had traveled n a circle part of the
time this morning. Sheriff Drew
spotted me while I was walking up
and down stretching my leg*'. I kne.v
it was useless to Make any fight
against detention. It would only have
made matters worse.’
From the moment that Deputy Su
perintendent of Immigration K. Flake
Robertson aroused Thaw in the im
migration detention quarters in
Coatlcook. Quebec, shortly after 7
o'clock more or less mystery sur
rounded the movements and motives
in the Might.
Whether Thaw’ was in the hands of
the New' York authorities after he
was dumped in Vermont or whether
he had cunningly devised a plan for
his own escape was not known until
hours afterward.
Thaw Raves at Officer.
When Immigration Officer Robert
son showed Thaw a warrant for his
immediate ejection from Canada the
fugitive began to rave.
*‘l wont go with you," screamed
Thaw. "This is a case of kidnaping.
This is outrageous. I want to talk
with my counsel. You can’t plot with
Jerome to get me back into Matte-
wan."
Thaw almost had to be forcibly
dressed. He grabbed a bottle and
hurled It through a window of the
room.
Fighting and screaming he was
carried from the room and placed in
a waiting high-powered touring car.
The chauffeur turned on full power
and the car shot forward headed t
ward Vermont.
It was only about 8 o’clock by this
time and there were few r persons
abroad. Thaw’s struggles were so
frantic that it required the full ef-
the Immigration Hoard of Inquiry!
last week.
Consequently the prisoner lost full
control of himself and raged like a
maniac. He wept and tore his hair
and streamed and struggled until ail
In the car were exhausted.
Meanwhile the driver kept the au
tomobile speeding toward Vermont.
At Norton’s Mills, which is near the
border, a number of newspaper cor
respondents have been stationed for
several days, patiently waiting for
developments in the Thaw case. They
realized that if the Canadian Govern
ment should go above the courts and
deport Thaw the Matteawan fugitive
certainly would be taken to that
point.
Reporters There to Greet Him.
The watchful correspondents, there
fore. were upon the field when a dust-
covered automobile, w'hich came from
the direction of Coaticook, stopped at
the imaginary line dividing the do
minion of King George and Uncle
Sam.
Three persons leaped from the car,
half carrying another man. The ex
hausted man was Harry Kendall
Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, and
the most spectacular prisoner of mod
ern times. •
Mr. Robertson told Thaw that he
was at the gateway of the United
States and that if he crossed he was
a free man unless picked up by some
of the watchful sleuths of William T.
Jerome.
Thaw u’as almost a nervous wreck
from his struggle and mental anguish.
His clothing was disarranged and his
mobile without ceremony, and the
party started toward Averill, a few
miles eastward. Someone argued
that there were a number of detec
tives In that part of the country, so a
dash was made back to Norton’s
Mills. From Nortons Mills it was de
cided to go to Beecher Falls, where.
Thaw thought, he might attempt to
cross the border.
At Beecher Falls it was decided to
take another tack, and the automo
bile sped on to Stewartstown.
Not far from this place a stop was
made at a farmhouse, where they got
something to eat. Thaw was nervouR
and apprehensive, and kept assuring j
the newsjaper men that he "was
their friend and would do anything j
for them if they would only help him
out.”
In the meantime the news had
spread over the countryside that
Thaw was spinning over the north
ern end of Vermont and New Hamp
shire in an automobile. Captain John
Canyon’s private detectives, commis
sioned by the State of New York and
Dutchess County, New York, to lake
Thaw back, got on the trail.
D.oubles on His Tracks.
Then began one of the strangest
chases in the annals of New England.
Thaw thought by doubling on his trail
he tnighi throw his pursuers off the
track. He realized that Deputy At
torney Generals Jerome and Franklin
Kennedy, of New York State, might
have privately secured the signatures
of the Governors of Vermont and
New Hampshire to extradition war
rants, so he headed toward Maine.
Thaw spoke with H. D. Spaulding,
proprietor of the Lakeside Inn at
A*verill. Tiie fugitive was dissatisfied
with the speed of the car in which he
was traveling, and asked directions
about hiring another.
“One that can go Cast as the devil.”
was the way the fugitive put it.
Keeps Scrapbook of
Own ‘Death’ Notices
ANNISTON. ALA., Sept. 10.—Law
Davis, son of H. Clay Davis, of this
City, has read hie own obituary nine
times. The first time he was "killed”
was while with the army in the
Philippines He now is recovering
from an electric shock. He, at other
times, has had a bullet through his
shoulder, a broken ankle, his bodv
badly seared with electricity, both
hips dislocated, a hole 1n his skull,
and his backbone broken in two
places.
He is keeping clippings of his
"death notices.”
City Rejects Plans
For Mobile Theater
MOBILE, Sept. 10.—Plans for the
new Klaw- and Erianger theater to
be erected in this city to take the
place of the Mobile Theater, de
stroyed by fire last January, were
reflected by the city engineer and
will have to be remedied.
The theater will be completed in
January.
GADSDEN. Sept 10.—Miss Mollle
Wilson and Joseph N. Bellenger,
local banker, were married at the
home of the bride’s mother on Elev
enth street. Both are prominent so
cially.
Graham Crackers are wholesome.
They are nourishing. They are
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10c
forts of
Robert »t
n and tw
o com pan-
Ions to i
old him
while til
e chauffeur
guided t
if* car.
"I am
being kit
Inn pad.”
shouted the
fugitive
H the U
p of his
lungs.
Deputy
Super in
tendent of Immigra-
tion Rob
ertson \
as not
kidnaping
Thaw, f
>r he b<
re in hi
s pocket a
warrant,
signed
by Minis
ter of Jus
tier Dot)
erty, a 1st
» Acting
Minister of
Interior,
who It
n1 ord«
red Thaw's
ejection
forthwith.
w
eeps an
Tears
Hair.
Thaw
thought
that he <
ould not be
deported
because
of the \
rit of pro-
hibition granted in the Court of Ap
peals at Montreal, which held up the
order of deportation handed down by
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face showed streaks of tear-mixed
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and others ran toward the scene. One
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<«r and exclaimed: "I will give you
any sum in reason if you will take
j me as a passenger in that car."
Dodging of Sleuths Begins.
Thaw was bundled Into the auto-
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