The Washington times., 1911-07-31
CAP TURE OF HAYS,
ALLEGED K|DNAPER,
IS EXPECTED SOON
Bloodhounds Take Up New
/ Trail in Virginia.
&. Mountains.


companion of Hartlett Hays, and o.
Hays himself. whom fear is driving
deeper into the foothills of the Virgins
mountains, to escape posses, was dis
PEELED today.
The woman, who sits in the Fairfax
county Jail, as the result of her flight
with Hays, and twenty-year-old Bud
Snyder, in a stolen buggy, was Frances
Louise Huff, of Washington, and hel
relatives live at 415.I street northwest.
The man, Hartlett Hays, is from
Richmond, and came here many years
ago, boarding at the Mrs. Frances
Louise Huff's home.
Mrs. Hays sisters, Mrs. Sallie Bicks-
Ter and Miss Lucy Hays, will try to get
into communication with her today, and
will endeavor to locate Mrs. Hays hus-
band, Bertrand L. Hays.
Cause of Tangle.
The arrest Of the woman yesterday,
in company with Hartlett Hays. who
escaped. led to a tangle of identities
which has Just been unrsveled. 1t all
came about because the woman's hus-
band and the man with whom she was
at the time Of his arrest bore the same
family name-that OF Hays.
But while this much Of the tangle has
been worked out, another is puzzling
the woman's relatives. They cannot
even guess what has become of the
woman's husband, Bertrand L. Hays
who. accompanied by his wife and
went into Virginia about a month ago,
to engage IN the trade Of itinerant
That was all heard before last
woman. and young Snyder, whose alb
sence in their company caused an in
lQuiry, left Dranesville, where for
week or so, Hays and the woman had
been stopping:
ITUner Snyder, who is known as
Bud" will have to appear before the
grand jury of Fairfax county, which
meets September 8, as well as the
iplice Of HartIett Hays in the alleged
theft of a horse.
Woman Reticent.
Mrs. Hays was taken to the Jail at
4 o'clock this morning. She was wide
eyed and disheveled from nights of
flight and hours of vigil, while the
sharp-nosed bloodhounds were on
the trail. For hours she was ques-
toned by the county officials and was
finally taken before Justice August
Henn1ng.
'T wasn't with. them all of the time"
Is about the only statement the
woman made, and she repeated 1t
time after time during the hours that
the questioning was going on.
Mrs. Hays capture last night marked
the end of flight which took the three
people over miles upon miles of rugged.
dry country. part of the way in the
buggy. which they later abandoned
above Leesburg. and the rest of the
way afoot, through woods and streams,
until Saturday night they embarked on
n thirty-n1ile Journey down rapid
stretch of the Potomac which landed
them last night, almost at their start
ing point, which they had regained by
hundred mile circle.
Story of Hardships.
The last twenty hours Of the chase
for the man and woman gives a chronI-
Gle Of hardship and narrow escape The
pursuit, led by blOodhounds, Deputy
Sheriff Cissel Of Montgomery county,
Nd, and some the Fairfax authorities,
closed in behind the rugitives Saturday
night near Point Of Rocks, Nd, where
the Potomac river takes a tortuous
course.
The man, woman, and boy heard the
hounds They sprang into one of the
big fiat-bottomed boats which are used
in that section, and pushed off from
shore, hardly in time 10 be out of sight
before the dogs were nosing at the
waters edge, the trail lost.
All Saturday night and most of Sun
day, every minute brought danger to
the three fugitives. The Potomac up
there is treacherous Jagged rocks loom
- the narrow channel and the current
runs swiftly between them.
Hayes, according to the woman, pulled |
at the oars, but they were often useless, |
and the frail boat had to be poled. Late
yesterday afternoon, thirty miles below
Point of Rocks, where their baffled pur- |
suers were still trying to pick up the |
trail, they landed. |
Why they made for the home Of |
Bud" Snyder, where his parents were |
worrying, believing him to be the vic
tim Of kidnapers. the woman does not !
say. but they had hardly entered the |
place last night when the alarm came |
TO them that some Of the citizens of
Drainsville were nearing to put them
under arrest.
Rushing through the door. hayes
made good his escape.
Hope For Early Capture.
~ Dranesville this morning it was
said that HartIett Hays is hiding some
where back in the thick woods that
begin in the foothills of the mountains.
The posses hope, with the aid Of the
1
find the fugitive before sundown.
According to the statement made this
morning by Mrs. Bicksley. concerning
her sister Frances, she married a
printer named Bertrand L. Hays, about
eleven years ago. His eyes gave out,
however, and he was forced to re-
linquish his trade and became a painter.
About this time Bartlett Hays, a Rich
mond boy, came to Washington and
went to board with Bernard Hays
family. Mrs. Bicksley says that al
though she was certain they were net |
Hartlett always called Ber-
trand Hays Uncle Bert" She says she
knows nothing of Hartlett Hays save
that she heard he had relatives in
Richmond named Knuckles.
The woman says that as far as she
knows there has been no trouble be-
tween Bertrand Hays and his wife,
and that they left together to go into
Virginia, Mrs. Hays former home hav-
ing been near Dranesville.
She says that she heard that Ber-
trand Hays and his wife had been &C
companied by Rartlett Hays, and that
they had employed young Snyder.
while I believe that Bertrand Hays
is in Washington" said the woman,
'still | do not know where he is, nor
could I surmise. and am at a loss to /
explain why his wife should be with
Hartlett Hays"