The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-18
WELL LAID plan
IS CARRIED OUT
Dashes Past Guard, Through
Gate, Into Motor Car
Wild Ride to State Line.
SLIM CHANCE OF
EXTRADITING HIM
When Found. Authorities Nav Try to
Force Extradition on Technical
Grounds-F1vc Men Assist in Es.
cape-6O-Horse Power Auto Used.
WRITES MOTHER.

WRITES MOTHER.
New York. Aug. 1S.-NIrs. Mary
Copley Tkaw received about noon
q letter IRON, her son, Harry X.
ihaw. who escaped from the Mat.
teaWan asylum yesterday, Thaw
said he planned Ito take a rcst''
before going to the Thaw country
place, Elnhurst, at Cresson. Pa.
Mattewan, N. Y, Aug. 1s.-Harrv
x: Thaw, the slayer of Stanford
White. escaped from the hospital for
the criminal insane here at 7:45 O'Clock
yesterday morning. dart for liberty
through an open gate, a dash into the
open door of a powerful automobile
that stood on the curbing outside. and
nleht like rocket for the Connecticut
state line, thirty miles away, accom-
plished his escape.
Today he is still at large and the
hospital authorities are. certain he is
outside the state
Slim Chance of Extradition.
Harry Thaw's over twenty -four
hour absence from Matteawan ASYLUM
for the criminal insane, established to-
day little beyond the fact that he es-
capped and that the state of New York,
IN the opinion of those qualified to
/, speak, had slim chance of extraditing
him. That he is beyond the borders of
the state is regarded as certain. With
the Connecticut line only thirty miles
from the asylum and Thaw and the
conspirators travelling by fast auto
mopile. reaching Connecticut was a
matter Of thirty minutes.
Whether the slayer of Stanford
White. boarded yacht off South Nor
walk, Conn.,. tho theory advanced by
the presence and. .sailia94syesterday Of
q yellow funneled craft, was not dis
covered.
May Try Technicalities.
When found, it is was said. the au-
thorities might try to force extradi-
t1on on one of two grounds:
First, that he, in escaping, technical
ly assaulted the keeper: second, that
the bribery of some attache of the
asylum be shown.
Howard Barnum, the gatekeeper, by
whom Thaw darted to the automobile
remained in Jail at Poughkeepsie'
maintaining his innocence of implica-
ton in any plot.
Mrs. Thaw Happy.
In New York. Mrs. Mary Copley
Thaw, mother of the fugitive. contin-
ued to receive visitors to whom she
expressed joy that her son had escap-
ed,
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, lamentins
that her husband was free. pronounc-
ed him dangerous to the community
and asked the police for protection.
Woman Employe Saw Escape.
Mrs. James Maher. an employe of
Matteawan. was standing in the laun-
dry tower. overlooking the yard be-
the two cars. She says she saw Thaw
leaning against the gate post and
when the gate was opened for the
milk wagon slip through and run to
the car, which already was under way.
Two men helped Thaw. into the car,
which roared down the hill to the
corner out Of sight.
The yacht seen off South Norwalk,
Conn.,. yesterday was identified as
York. a carpet dealer. Fowler was
amused to learn that the fact of the
yachts passing Norwalk was connect
ed with Thaw's escape
Five Confcderates.
Five confederates manned the car
in which Thaw escaped and a big
black limousine which trailed it past
the asylum gate. The police have
their license and the names under
which they registered at a local hote
Friday night and are seeking them.
The hospital authorities believe
Thaw has fled to the shore of Long
Island Sound and boarded a yacht
waiting with steam up. to rush him to
Europe.
Reward of $500.
A reward Of $500 for Thaw's appre-
hension has been offered by DR.. r. F.
lum. Howard II. Barnum, the at
tendant at the gate past whom Thaw
flashed in his break for freedom. is
under arrest and other arrests are
expected to follow in the rigid inves-
tigation begun by DR.. Keib.
One Attendant at Gate.
The shades were drawn in the DOR
mitories and the inmates were asleep
when Thaw left his room yesterday
morning. He was fully dressed. The
milk mans cart was rumbling on the
road outside as he walked through
the store room and into the outer
court yard of the grounds: Barnum.
sole attendant at the road gate. was
pacing back and forth when Thaw
closed the store room door behind
him, and apparently did not grasp the
Significance Of Thaw's early rising.
A "Trusty."
Long years Of residence at the say
lum and repeated declarations by
Thaw that he would never attempt
to obtain his freedom except by legal
means had established the madman's
status as ''trusty." There was little
out of the ordinary in his appearance,
even at SO early an hour. in the court
yard and II Barnum saw him-as to
this no one, save the hospital authori-
ties. could say and they refused to
talk--he raised no question.
A six-cylinder touring car, Of 60
also black. loafed lazily along the
road as the milk man drew near the
gate. Thaw. standing few feet away.
apparently unconcerned, waited till
i Barnum unlocked the gate and swung
1T wide to let the milk man enter.
i At the same moment the two cars
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