The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-18
THAW ESCAPED
 FROM ASYLUM
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 him to dash for liberty.
 One of the dearest accounts of Thaw's escape comes from Mrs. James Maher, Iaundress at Matteawan. She was standing in the laundry tower overlooking the yard. Below, she no ticed Thaw; on the roadway outside. two cars.
 T stayed at the window longer than usual,'' she relates, because I noticed a fine, big touring car at the bottom of Lowery'S Hill and saw another auto mobile right close to the yard gate. A man was working on the machinery and thought it was out of order. But the chugging was so loud. that I was afraid every minute it might start and crash through the fence.
 Then I noticed two big men step out. They opened both side doors of the car which looked like taxtcab- One of the men waved his handker- chief to a man who was leaning against the open car at the bottom of the hill.
 gate and saw Hickey's milk wagon coming up the hill. MT. Hickey was driving slowly As he stopped in front of the gate he climbed from his seat.
 ssThe rniIkman walked over to the bell button and the next moment | Thaw lean against the gate post as Barnum drew back the lock and push ed the door open. I could hear Hickey urge his horse ahead and then saw him drive through the gateway:
 a There goes Harry Thaw, l shout ed out of the window as saw Thaw slip past the milk wagon and out of the yard.
 es1,he two men caught Thaw by both arms and threw or half dragged him into the automobile. The chauffeur was on his seat in a, second and then the machine seemed to jump down the hill and to the corner where saw the big black touring car shoot out or sight
 The yacht seen off South Norwalk, Conn, yesterday, was 1dent1Ileo' TOT day, as the Kaufman 1T, the property of Robert T. Fowler, a New York carpet dealer. MT. Fowler said that he passed Norwalk in the craft about the time reported, yesterday, but ne was amused and amazed to know that this incident was connected in any way with Thaw's escape.
 The opinions that Thaw is alto gether safe from extradition are back ed officially in many quarters, in cIuding a pronouncement by District Attorney Charles s. Whitman, who telegraphed as follows from Breton Woods N. H., in answer to an inquiry:
 *@rhaw was acquitted and there isl no indictment pending against him in New York He cannot be extrad1ted- It is a coincidence that the New YorK State Bar Association is now contend ing for a modification of the verdict in such cases as Thaws The statutory verdict in the case of a person which has committed murder and who IS proved to have been insane is mot guilty by reason of insanity. accord ing to the present law. The Bar As sociation has been vigorously pressing for a statutory verdict such as guilty but insane as is provided in England where such a person is a criminal ana be recovered by extradition-
 Under the present laws here there is only one slight hole through which the New York authorities might drag Thaw back from another state Some lawyers point out that if it could be shown that Thaw had bribed any state official to aid him in the escape he might be extradited. On the other hand, as person adjudged insane cannot be tried for his act, the futilitp of attempting to indict Thaw for br1b- cry or any similar crime becomes ap- parent.
 Tzaaw's escape, by taking French leave of Matteawan while the gateSi were open, yesterday, for the milk man, ended a fight which he has kept up for the past six years to gain his freedom by legal process. It is con his family have spent nearly a million dollars in defending him at his trials for the staying of Stanford White and in attempting to secure his Iibera- ton from Matteawan. Former Dis trict Attorney Jerome once estimated that the trials and hearings have cost the state of New York nearly half a million dollars.
 15o DROWNED IN TYPHoON.