The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-08-20
TAKE THAW THROUGH
VERMONT. OFFICER
DEPUTY SHERIFF FOLLOWS HIM
ACROSS BORDER-ARREsT Is
MADE IN CANADA
THAW ACCOSTS HIM
ASKS OFFICER ON TRAIN IF HE
KNOWS WHO HE IS AND GETS
ANSWER THAT SHOWS
HE DOES
lTHAW ACCOSTS HIM

sHERBROOKE. QUE. Aug. 10
Harry Thaw was arrested little after
6 o'clock this morning. at Coaticook'
Quebec.
He Is now in Jail in Sherhrooke,
! charged with being fugitive from
Justice. Tomorrow morning his at
/ torney, DIR. w. l.. Shurtlefr. will try
to have him released on q writ OF
I habeas corpus.
Canadian officials say that Thaw
will be deportcd to the United states
as an undesirable immigrant. II
looks as If tomorrow may see the De
ginning Of a legal fight that may last
perhaps a year.
Companions Not Held.
| Two men who accompanied Ihaw
to Ccaticook, and who are supposed
/ to have helped him to escape from
the State asylum for the criminal IN
sane. In Matteawan in New York, were
/ not arrested. They have disappeared
/ Thaw is reticent and Sherin Ayi-
mer. of Sherhrooke, won't let inter-
viewers see him.
| The man responsible for the arrest
of the much hunted fugitive, is Deputy
sheriff Burleigh Fl. Kelsey. OF Cole
/ brook. NH. He has claimed the 5000
reward offered by Superintendent
Kieh, of the Matteawan hospital. and
/ another reward OF $50.
Abandon Big Car.
Thaw and his companions n hsr
touring car. which took him from
/ Matteawan, on dash through four
states. n, Rochester. n. IL. It's meter
registered 7ss miles.
They had boarded train and were
fairly on their way to Canada Wneu
| Deputy Sheriff Kelsey, who mao
! boarded the train at Lancaster. the
] her N n exercise MS ue"
tective instincts, and finally alter
some conversation with Thaw, got MIN
/ to admit his identity
Accostcd By Tbaw.
About O'Clock yesterday afternoon
Deputy Sheriff Kelsey was seated IN
a day coach on the train coHihse Wy
! from Manchester, the county, seat
reading a newspaper with Thaw's pic
ture on the first page. when man
vho was seated with two otneFs
nearby nccosted him, saying:
/ DO vau know who / am p
Sheriff Kelsey replied; couio
make pretty good guess
who DC you think / amF aaerieo
! the stranger. .,
II think YOU are HAIRY ~ INA w.
repiied the sheriff.
The stranger said: II am Thaw. but
YOU don't want. me. for you could not
do ANYTHING with me because nave
been acquitted. and under the law
/ the New York officials cannot extra
dite me"
Deputy Sheriff Kelsey asked Thaw
where nc was going. ana ne an
swered:
ITO Canada first, and then across
| the water
/ According to the story told by
Sheriff Kelsey there were two men
with Thaw at the time. T'haw con-
tinued on the train to Beecher's Falls.
where he aiighted and hired team.
/ sheriff Starts In Pursuit
/ Kelsey came to Colebrook. where
he enlisted the support OF Walter
| Drew AMI Lib" Barbour, and they
took an automobile and started In
pursuit Of the fugitive and his asso-
ctates. They overlook Thaw and his
friends at Beechers Falls. whore he
had been dropped by the driver, be-
cause he feared that Thaw and his
companions were bank robbers. and
ne did not want to he implicated in
any such business. all OF which he
told the party. Thaw tried to remon-
strate with him. and offered a large
sum of money to take him further
into the Canadian woods, but the
driver refused.
Sheriff Kelsey informed the police
of his knowledge of the strangers and
requested that they be arrested at
once.
An attorney named Berregg swore
out the warrant which was served on
Thaw much to his astonishment.
Thaw protested and denied that he
was Harry Thaw. The officers were
ohdurate and felt quite sure that they
had their man.
~ >fzhersfY Kelsey has .satd carsssa to the
$500 reward offered by the superin-
tendent OF the asylum Thaw escaped
from. There is another reward of
$50. and Kelsey will also claim that