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THAW SPENDS THREE HOURS OF FREEDOM DODGING JEROME
Matteawan Asylum Fugitive’s Wild Auto Dash tor Liberty Fails
BUTTLE AGAINST
EXTRADITION
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New Hampshire Governor Says
He Will Act on Opinion of
Attorney General.
MATTEAWAN FUGITIVE
SNAPPED IN CANADA
HARRY K. THAW.
Continued from Page 1.
the newspaper party which had picked
Thau up at Norton* Mills.
After his luncheon Thaw went lo
the lobby of the Mondanork House,
where he had eaten, and ordered a
ciirnr.
Jerome on the Way.
Jerome wai expected to arrive here
some time in the afternoon and Im
mediately begin his fight on I'nited j
States soil to have Thaw extradited
into New York State on the con
spiracy warrant stwom out in- Dutch
es* County, New York, immediately
after his escape from Matteawan
Asylum.
In the meantime Thau was kept
under the eye of the Sheriff. Thaw
said he would rnnke no objections to
going to the combination Jail and
courthouse, as he intended to rtgnt
legally against his return to New
York.
“1 can not talk about m; trip here
from the border,*’ said Thaw. “Solne
friends tried to help me. but the roads
up here must have been pattern*^
After a cobweb.
"I was so hungry and tired and
cramped that I had to get out of the
machine at Little Schoolhouse. 1 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 wis walking tin
and down stretching my !eg^. 1 knew
it was useless to make any fight
■gainst detention. It would only have
made matters worse.’
From the moment that Deputy Su
perintendent of Immigration E. Blake
Robertson aroused Thaw in the Im
migration detention quarters in
Coaticook. 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 i
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 j
hours afterward.
Thaw Raves at Officer.
When Immigration Officer Robert- j
son showed Thaw a warrant for his j
immediate ejection from Canada the
fugitive began to rave.
"I won’t go with you," screamed
Thaw. 'This is a case of kidnaping
Thi9 is outrageous. I want to talk
with my counsel. You can't plot with
Jerome to get me back into Matte-
wan."
Thaw almost htid to be forcibly
dressed. lie 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 to
ward Vermont.
It was only about R o’clock by this
time anti there were few persons
abroad. Thaw’s struggles were st
frantic that it required the full ef-
/’ r V
the Immigration Board of Inquiry
last week.
Consequently the prisoner lost full
control of himself and raged like a
maniac. He wept and tore his hair
and screamed and struggled until all
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 watting 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
poiof.
Reporter* There to Greet Him.
The watchful correspondents, there
fore. were upon the field when a dust-
covered automobile, which came from
the direction of f’oatioook, 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
em 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 was almost a nervous wreck
from his struggle, and mental anguish.
Hia 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
Mill*. From Nortons Mills it was de
cided to go to Beecher Falls, where,
Thaw thought, he might attempt to
cross the border.
At Beecher Fall* it was decided to
take another tack, and the automo
bile sped on to Stewartstown.
Not far from this place a slop was
made at a farmhouse, where they gut
something to eat. Thaw was nervous
end apprehensive, and kept assuring
the newspaper men that he "was
their friend and would do anything
for them if they would only help him
out”
In the meantime the news bad
spread over the countryside that
Thaw was spinning over the north
ern end of Vermont and New Hamp
shire in an automobile. Captain John
Lenyon's private detectives, commis
sioned by the State of New York and
Dutchess County, New York, to take
Thaw- back, got on the trail.
Double* on Hi* Tracks.
Then began one of thje strangest
chases in the annals of New England.
Thaw thought by doubling on his trail
he might throw his pursuers off the
track. He realized that Deputy At
torney General* 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. I). Spaulding.
proprietor of the Lakeside Inn at
Averill. The fugitive was dissatisfied
with the speed of the car in which he
was traveling, and asked directions
about hiring another
"One that can go fast 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. Olay Davis of this
city, ha* read h!» 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 body
! badly seared with electricity, both
hips dislocated, a hole in 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 Erlanger 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 Mollie
Wilson and Joseph N. Bellenger, a
local banker, were married at the
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forts of Robertson and two compan
ions to hold him while the chauffeur
guided the ear
"I am being kidnaped," shouted the
fugitive at the top of his lungs.
Deputy Superintendent of Immigra
tion Robertson was not kidnaping
Thaw, for' he bore in bis pocket a
warrant, signed by Minister of Jus
the Doherty, also Acting Minister of
Interior, w ho hud ordered Tlmw s
ejection forthwith.
Weeps and Tears Hair.
Thaw 'bought that be could not be
deported because of the writ of pro
hibition granted in the Court of Ap- face showed
peals at Montreal, which held up the | dust,
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Several newspaper correspondents
and other* ran toward the scene. One
recognized Thaw. Thaw saw a motor
car and exclaimed: "I will give you
my sum In reason if you will take
me as a passenger in that car."
Dodging of Sleuth* Begin*.
Thaw was bundled inu.* the aiito-
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