Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-08-19
THAW STILL ENJOYS
 STOLEN LIBERTY Officials of New York State Order His Arrest However
 and Are After Him
EVELYN GETS THREAT
Automobile in Which Harry Thnw ES- capped Back in New York and
 Helpers Shadowed.

New York. Aug. 1S-Ilarry K l Thaw is still al large. Two days 1 hunt for him has failed to give any l definate clue as to his whereabouts. 1 The police of all the New England l states have been on the lookout for | him all day and he has been reported all the way from Connecticut to Maine. The reports however, could not absolutely fix the identity of the | famous prisoner.
 l While the exciting man hunt went
 min New York and New England to- day the machinery of the law was
 put in operation to secure the return of the fugitive to Matteawan. At the
 same time Thaw's mother was mak- ing plans to combat tiss states eff 1 forts.
 No matter where Thaw turns up a
 great legal battle is assured before he is absolutely secure of his liberty
 or before he is sent back to the mad house. This conflict will be different from the others that have been waged since Thaw was sent to MatteaWan in
 February 1908, however, in one re-
 spect.
 In those Thaw was "in'' and the stpuggle of the law was to keep him there. 1n this Thaw is "out' and his
 relatives will spend their last cent to
 keep him away from the bars of l Matteawan.
 Which ever" way the battle turns
 many more thousands of the Thaw
 dollars will go into the pockets of the
 lawyers. The State of New York to-
 day, through District Attorney Ed
 ward A. Conger, took three important steps at Pougheepsie with the pur-
 pose of restoring Thaw to the mad
 house and of punishing the persons who helped in his escape. These | were:
 First-Swore to warrant charg- 1 ing Thaw with a felony in briblng l Howard Barnum, who was on guard at the gates when the prisoner escap- l ed.
 l Second-Had Barnum arrainged at
 Poughkeepsie on warrant charging
 bribery and neglect of duty. Third-Had warrants issued for
 five men accused of participating in
 the delivery They were named as
 follows: Richard J. Butler, Roger
 Thompson, Michael OKeefe, Eugene
 Duffy and Thomas Flood All are
 charged with conspiracy. The first direct step looking to Thaw's return to the asylum was MT.
 Conger's action in taking out war
 rant charging the fugitive with con-
 spiracy under Article 5S0 of the penal
 law. Conger asserts that any officer in any state may arrest Thaw under this warrant and hold him for ex- tradition.
 Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw received a threatening message sent by her hus-
 band tonight. The message was tim ed as received in New York at 5:5O a. m. today, but was not delivered to Mrs. Thaw until she was in her dress ing room at the theater for her turn, this afternoon. She showed greatl agitation on receipt of the message. An attempt was made to convince her that the telegram might be hoax, but she refused to credit this because of Thaw's usual signature I'll. K. T."
 She seemed to be bordering on hys- teria for time, but was finally calm ed so that she could go on in the reg ular order of the program. There has been no word received here as to Thaw having been seen in the vicinity of Bridgeport. Mrs. Thaw, the mother, is confident that her son will join her at Elmhurst, her summer home, and today made her plans accordingly.
 Here is one story that was gleaned tonight in Broadway, the former re- creation grounds of Stanford Whites slayer:
 "Thaw's ecape from Matteawan was accomplished at cost of only $2,000. Only four of the men who took part in the drama received any of the mo- ney, however, the fifth arrived her.