The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-18

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drew up on the further side of the
road, opposite the gate and stood still.
their engines tlrobhing.
Backed Past Guard.
AS Barnum stepped aside for the
milk man to drive inside the grounds.
they heard the gravel crunch beneath
Thaw's feet and, looking up. saw the
mad man flash past him for n of
the waiting cars. With a shout Bar
mum started in pursuit, but a flying
leap landed Thaw safe within the car.
The wheels were slowly turning be-
fore the keeper had fairly reached the
roadway. They were throwing up a
cloud of dust before he had gone
twenty-five feet.
Down the roadway the cars sped in
a whirline cloud IF dust that quickly
hlottad them from sight. For a mo-
Barnum shaded his eyes with his
hand and watched them; then. with
the first great hlo on his career Of
twenty years as keeper, he dashed
into the ground and locked the gate.
"Thaw's Gone"
"Thaw's gone-escaped." he shout
cd. bursting into Or. Keih's presence.
And in a n the hunt was IN.
The great black car flashed like
lightning through ~Stornnviile ten miles
cast of Mattewan, along the road to
the Connecticut line. Early risers in
the little hamlet saw three men-and
Thaw-crouching low to escape the
sweep of their rush through the air.
They We're going seventy miles an
hour. They were ten minutes out Of
MatteWan.
Stormville marveled at their speed
and watched them melt away in the
dust of the state road.
The limousine had bee left be-
hind. At the speed which the black
car travelled through Stormville he
should have reached the state line
within an hour.
Police Are Informed.
Barnum's breathless declaration at
the asylum brought Dr. keih to his
feet like a pistol sho Within a mo-
ment he was at the telephone and as
Barnum poured the story into his ears
repeated over tho wire to police head
quarters. Mattewan became the cen-
ter of a widening ripple Of telephone
and telegraph alarms as DR.. keib
planned pursuit. He might as Well
have tried to chase a ~tWelve-inch
she'll. The ten minute start, the high
power of the car in which Thaw made
his flight. the nearness OF the Connec-
ticut state line, toward which Thaw
was heading. and the inferior powers
of pursuing cars initiated against
I,", ~ IL No -. ~. yT,,iior,
n,tann 10
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ing sixty miles an hour. 7 saw him
coming and Just n time to crowd
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an a~utot1ohile Whlch road ne took
Wv . y.
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ne ie' IL remain open, so 1ar as DR..
A!en sou1h luaer. haa lulstiy $1,000
Wy nv a.ioMtu .ne pIlsoneo 10 walk
w ~ was lnnposslnls 60 op.aln an
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authopities mr. "' Eiah y b,s "e af T y
n.n - Ettn mas o''rreu a
persona ieWaru OF sooo Tor Ihaw's
pprrheilslon IN aHo'tloh 10 the $50
"s"a'!y A,Nen ny tne state
rlsIo lhses''sa''on lncilhed Dr..
Nleh last nlsht TO the oeliei that Thaw
p'athso Iislt on d Sach' IN Long Is
,anh snunn ana INA ~ ne reached n
van. II was by IeiaSs OF automohlles
s!anoihs along tne ROAD TO throw pur-
S"rr ri, on tne lrail.
J ms ives.!sa'lo dlscloseo the fact,
Mh" aldeo nav came TO Matteawan
~ Nv n,ack touring car last FRIDAY
1 pn les1Seereu d. the Hoiiand motel as
IN.:osssl hiGnaro D.. Beetle.
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NE" iorK o.,y.
~. run Man arrives.
me ii'h nan aiolns IN Ihaw's es-
oape, aeeoIatns 20 tne investigation,
toinaa ~ Mae,ea"ah SATURDAY. He
,n IA the s.pup a. .me Holland hotel
~ v .n ha.ne Oh inoH1as Flood OF
dr jw 1 ~ I 10y re rs sala TO nave
~ c II "'s car "heh Ihaw es-