Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-08-22
WARRANT ISSUED
FOR HARRY THAW
Fugitive Slayer Is Charged With
Conspiracy.
WRITES TO HIS MOTHER
Pittsburgh Expects Maniac There To-
day to Begin Fight for Estate
Wife Receives Threatening
telegram.


trace has been uncovered as to the
hiding place OF Harry X. Thaw who
on Sunday escaped from the Mattea-
wan insane asylum. A clue, which
IS the most promising, is that Thaw
has taken refuge in the New Jersey
State hospital at Morris Plains.
Dr. Britton %. Evans, head Of the
who testified in behalf OF Thaw at
his trials for murder, visited the
fugitives mother in the Hotel Gotham
Later he talked at length with re-
porters and left them. despite his re-
fusai to answer questions directly,
with the impression that he knew the
whereabouts and plans of Thaw and
probably had seen him in the course
of the day.
Harry X. Thaw has now had
three days of freedom, and the
police of the United States and
Canada had not picked up his
trail. They seek him now not as the
slayer of Stanford White or as an es-
capped IuGatic. but on a warrant issued
in the supreme court at Poughkeepsie
charging him with cOnspiring with the
aged keeper, Howard II. Barnum, and
the five men who managed the asylum
delivery
Thaw's seclusion rs absolute. Out
of the cloud of dust which swirled in
the wake OF the black automobile bear
ing him and his hberators from Mat
teawan Sunday morning nothing tan
gjble has come except a laconic letter
from Thaw himself, assuring his aged
mother in New York that he desired
rest and would, III due time, join her
at the Thaw country place, Elmhurst,
at CressOu, Pa IN obedience to this
plan, Mrs. Thaw purposes to start for
Cresson at once.
Evelyn Nesbit TAaw received the
following telegram:
bridgeport. Conn, Aug. 20.-I want
you to have that name taken off the
theater at once. You realize your mis-
take H. K. T."
Thaw's wife's eyes blazed as she
read It, THAT name" meant plainly
the electrical sign that blazes nightly
on the theater where Mrs. Thaw Is
dancing.
Poughkeeps!e, n. Y, Aug. 20.--At a
special term OF the supreme court here
Justice Joseph Morschauser issued a
warrant for the arrest of Harry K.
Thaw, charging him with conspiracy
with Howard II. Barnum, the guard
who opened the hospital gate when
Thaw made his dash for liberty, and
five other men IN making his escape
from Matteawan.
Similar warrants were issued for
Richard J. Butler, Roger Thompson,
Michael O'Keefe, Eugene Duffy and
Thomas Flood, Thaw's alleged accom-
plices. Barnam has been held with
out bail for examination Thursday.
Matteawan. N. Y, Aug. 19.-Harry
X. Thaw, who murdered Stanford
White on June %, 1906, has escaped
from Matteawau insane asylum.
lie escaped nom the state hospital
for the criminal! insane here when the
gate was opened to admit milkman
Sunday morning, darted into a power
full automobile that stood waiting out
side and is believed to have reached
Connecticut, thirty miles away. The
Last seen of him was at a hamlet thir-
teen miles east. through which the au-
tomobile rushed at 20 miles an hour
ten minutes after leaving the asylum.
Hospital authorities believe Thaw
had relays OF automobiles stationed
along the road to Long Island sound.
where they think he has boarded q
yacht waiting with steam up to rush
him to Europe
At night the hospital authorities felt
certain that at least Thaw was outside
the state Once beyond its boundaries.
only years Of litigation can bring him
back. and then only IN one event, that
he be adjudged insane in the state to
which he has lied.
Five confederates manned the car
in which Thaw escaped and big
black limousine which trailed II past
the asylum gate. The police have their
license numbers and the names under
which they registered at local hotel
Friday night and are seeking them.
reward OF $500 for Thaw's appre-
hension has been offered By DR.. r. F,
c. Kieb. superintendent of the asylum.