The San Francisco call., 1913-08-19
Authorities of United States
and Canada on Watch for
Mailman Who Fled Mat
teawan - Warrant Issued
Charging Conspiracy With
Guard, an Extraditable Of
fense-Ofhcials Seek to
Avoid Coup by Which
Chaloner Got His Liberty
PENNSYLVANIA GOAL,
IN NOTE TO MOTHER

NEW YORK, Aug. 1s.-Midnight to-
night marked the fortieth hour of
Harry K. Thaw's freedom, and the po-
lice of the United States and Canada
had not picked up his trail
They seek him not as the slayer of
Stanford White or as an escaped luna
tic, but on a warrant issued in Pough-
keepsie today charging him with con-
spring with the aged keeper, Howard
Barnum, and the five men who man
aged the asylum delivery. On such a
technicality does New York state base
It's hope OF bringing about the fugi-
tfve's return. Both factions of the
double barre1ed government in Albany
have promised rigid Investigations and
the exertion of every effort to bring
about his capture.
Thaw's seclusion today and tonight
was absolute. Out of the cloud of dust
which swirled in the wake of the black
automobile bearing him and his lib
orators from Matteawan yesterday
morning nothing tangible had come,
self, assuring his aged mother In New
York that he desired rest and would
in due time join her at the Thaw coun-
try place. Elmhurst, near Cresson. Pa.
THAw's LETTER TO MOTHER
The letter to Mrs. Thaw was post
marked New York, August II, IL m.
station O." Inside on a long slip of
paper was Thaw's communication writ
ten in pencil. It ran as follows:
"All well. Shall take a rest before
going to Elmhurst, as I might be asked
for interviews and do not wish to re-
fuse. yet do not care to make any
statements. Hope M. and G. (Mr. and
Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie) arrive
safe and that you will go home to-
gether
Have sent short note to the Jour
nal H X. T."
The fugitive had apparently intended
sending the message by telegraph as
night letter, for it was so marked.
He changed his mind, however, and
gave it to some one to mail for him.
Whoever did this addressed 1t in Ink,
scrawly. unlettered hand.
In giving out the letter Mrs. Thaw
explained that it was her sons hand
writing and for that reason she knew
that it had come from him.
MOTHER PLEASED BY NOTE
In obedience to this plan Mrs. Thaw
purposes to start for Cresson tomor-
row morning.
Happy. girlish almost, in her joy,
Mrs. Thaw exhibited the hastily
scrawled note from the son whose
escapades have cost the family a mil
lion, and added that whatever Harry Z
did would meet with her approval.
This in view of his announced inten-
tion Of entering Pennsylvania, gave
basis to the belief that Thaw was pre-
pairing to take his case before the
courts Of that state and relying on the
kink in American laws relative to the
insane charged with no crime to op-
pose extradition and duplicate in Penn
sylvania, If possible, the course of John
Armstrong Chaloner in Virginia.
1t was in anticipation OF such move
that the New York authorities caused
the warrant to be sworn out in Pough-
keepsie. Conspiracy, according to the
district attorney Of Dutchess county,
constitutes an extraditab1e offense.
Close associates of the family indi-
Gated tonight that the groundwork of
a legal fight In Pennsylvania had al
ready been laid. DR.. Britton d. Evans,
the alienist who testified in Thaw's be-
half at the murder trials, held a tele-
phone conference with Mrs. Thaw this
afternoon and it was said that he
would accompany her to Pennsylvania
There are to be conferences with coun-
sci and meantime. 1t is understood,
Thaw Is to remain In hiding.
LEAVES ONLY DUST BEHIND
Figuratively. as well as literally.
Thaw left behind him only cloud of
Dutchess county dust. Rumors of his
passage. descriptions of black automo-
biles, tales of yacht boardings in Long
Island sound, speckled the days news.
The yacht Endymion of George Lau-
der Jr. distant relative Of the Thaws