The San Francisco call., 1913-08-19
SEEK TO AVOID CHALONER COUP;
THAW TO FACE CONSPIRACY
Authorities Sure They Gan Return Matteawar
Madman if Found Note Indicates Court
Test in Pennsylvania

by marriage, found mention In the
crop of rumors After having left
Vineyard Haven, Mass, the craft was
reported as cruising somewhere in the
sound. possibly not far from South
NorwaIk, Conn.,, repeatedly mentioned
as an objective point for Thaw had he
cared to take the sea. Inquiry at the
New york Yacht club disclosed that
the Endymion was a slow boat and
attaches there secuted the idea that
Thaw would have gone aboard.
While there was nothing to support
the theory that Thaw had taken to the
seas, this seemed to those who have
followed the case to be the likeliest
course.
Leaving Matteawan. only two routes
which did not double back into New
q York state lay open to him. One lay
north by land to Canada, thence SolltF-
west along the border Of the greas
lakes and across Lake Erie to north
jutting section of Pennsylvania Ihe
other is the water route. Aboard ship
tn the south w,law cousi bide his time
in comparative safety and make his
way to Philadelphia via Delaware bay
and the Delaware river.
CANADA TO DEMAND "MOVE ON
In view of the fact that entrance
might mean clash with the immlgra-
ton authorities there the theory was
advanced that Thaw's advisers would
not have him take any such risk.
Dispatches from Ottawa, though
quoting no official, said that If Thaw
halted within the dominion he might
be deported as an undesirable alien,
although if he had through ticket to
Europe there would be no stopping him.
The state authorities at Harrisburg,
Pa, indicated that If he came within
that state his case would be referred
to the attorney generals office pro-
vided New York asked for his extra
dition.
The Philadelphia o,ice said they
would detain him if New York re-
quested it. Connecticut took the view
that he could rot be held there as an
insane fugitive, but Massachusetts OFF,
cials were inclined to think that moth
ing short of a criminal charge would
warrant his detention in that state.
Second only to the search for Thaw
is that for Richard J. Butler, Roger
Thompson, Michael OKeefe Eugene
Duffy and Thomas Flood, the quintet
whose muscle, nerve and skill with
automobiles did the stopwatch work
outside the asylum walls.
These five did the rough work
Who was the brains of the plot
whether Thaw himself or some astute
slawyer-wilI have to be developed later.
FORMER ASsEMBLYMAN GONE
q The description of Butler tallies
closely with that of former assembly
g man of the same name from New York
city. William Gordon. proprietor of the
little hotel at Fishkin Landing where
the FIVE made their headquarters for
two days prior to Thaw's escape,
Il Of fhsa
former assenblyman as one of his late
guests. The clerk of the hotel bore
him out
In New York trace was found of
q Butler of the same initials. Familiarity
known as Hooks said of late to have
operated taMcabs and formerly to have
been a longshoreman Former Assem-
blyman Butler is said to have been
identified with the Longshoremen's
union. Mrs. Butler said tonight that
her husband was absent from home
Friday afternoon unti1 Sunday night
last. She did not know where he had
gone.
H Finken. who conducts a transfer
service, said that he not only knew
Butler. but Thompson, O'Keefe, Duffy
and Flood, all of whom he described
as chauffeurs.
It have been handling the baggage
of the Thaw family for Is years., the
transfer man Is quoted as saying, anu
I know Mrs. Thaw and other members
of the family. Last Friday a man I
know very well, but whose name I
would not give upon my life appeared
down here at the West Shore ferry at
the foot of West Forty-second street.
In big touring car.
SAYS CHAUFFEURS KNEW PLANS
Il am not going to say how 1 know
this but I do know that this man said
he wanted five good automobile men
TO go up to Matteawan on a hunting
trip I'm not saying how he did 1T,
but he met Richard J. Butler, known
around here as Hooks" Butler, be-
cause he was once a longshoreman;
Eugene Duffy. Michael O'Keefe, Tom
Flood and Roger Thompson, all chauf-
feurs. He talked with those fellows
and they went away with him and have
not been back here since.
Now, I'm not going to say how 1t
came out, but Butler and Thompson
and Flood and the other boys had no
sooner gone away than it became
known around here that they were
going to get Harry Thaw out. The fact
of the matter is. I don't know any
more than all the automobile boys
around here know. and they knew IT
was coming off before If hannaned