The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-08-21

guard, who was on duty at the time
! that the wealthy young slayer broke
away from the institution, to which
he was committed on February l, 1913.
DR.. Kieb was appointed superintend-
ent on June of this year, succeeding
DR.. John w. Russell. DIR. Russell was
dismissed as the result of an alleged
$4,000 bribery plot for the release of
Thaw.
John n. Anhut, young lawyer, is
now serving a prison sentence for his
participation in the bribery conspir-
acy.
Because of the conditions under
which he took office DR.. Kieb had
taken extra precaution to prevent just
what happened. He has ordered a rig
id investigation to determine just what
attendants, If any, were involved in
the successful plot to free Thaw.
Since Thaw was sent to Matteawan,
more than five years ago, his mother,
Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, of Pittsburg,
has spent hundreds of thousands of
dollars in attempts to have him freed
legally from restraint. The aged moth
er arrived in New York Unexpectedly
from her summer home at Cresson,
Penn, and Joined her daughter, Mrs.
George Carnegie, who is stopping at
the Gotham Hotel.
Mrs. Thaw refused to say anything
when news of her sons escape first
reached the hotel, but Mrs. Carnegie
was apparently greatly surprised,
MY mother and ! had intended GO
Ing to the hospital tomorrow to see
Harry" she said. We knew nothing
Of his intentions, or have we any idea
where he is or what he intends to do.
1t is a great surprise to us all"
AS soon as Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
heard of her husbands escape she
asked for protection. She declared she
believed her life in danger, and ac-
cordingly she was given police protec-
tion. She is also being guarded by a
private detective hired by Arthur
Hammerstein. This detective accom-
panied her to and from the Victoria
theater, where she is performing in
vaudeville.
William Travers Jerome, who, as
district attorney, sent Thaw to the
asylum, and, thereafter, successfully
resisted all attempts of the young man
to gain freedom, was told of Thaw's
escape. He said that he would make
no comment then, except that he was
afraid that Thaw would attack him.
Legal experts are practically agreed
that Thaw is immune from arrest so
far as the murder of Stanford White
- concerned. Even if he were arrest
ed in another state on some pretext, it
Is not believed that he could be extra
dited.
His case, if he keeps out of New
York state, forms a striking parallel
to that of John Armstrong Chanler,
who was declared insane in New York,
but escaped to Virginia, where he
lives unmolested He has changed
the name of Chanler to Chaloner, the
old English spelling of the name.
The New York City police We're no
titled of Thaw's escape within half an
hour after it occurred, and detectives
and uniformed men We're dispatched
to all ferries stations, piers and other
public places, with instructions to
watch for the fugitive.
The official description sent here
by telephone was:
Height. 5 feet 1lA inches; weight,
166 pounds; brown hair and eyes, and
dark complexion
Deputy Police Commissioner Dough-
erty said that the escape of Thaw
would be regarded in the same light
as would the escape of prisoner from
Sing Sing He said he doubted, how
ever, that Thaw could be brought back
if taken in another state