New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-20

Burleigh II. Kelsea, deputy sherln
Of Coos County, n. H, boarded Maine
Central train at Lancaster last night
and sat down in the smoker to reao
his paper. He was well on his way TO
Colebrook. his home, when he hearo
the conversation of men in the seat
behind him. They were asking one an
other the name of the county seat Oh
the county through which they were
passing None OF them knew.
A well built man of erect ngure'
whose dark hair was slightly sprinKiea
with gray and into whose eyes there
was stamped an unusual stare arose
an stood by Kelsey's seat, his mana
lightly touching the deputy's shoulder
as he leaned forward. The stranger
wanted to know the name OF the coun-
~ seat. Something in his manner or
II NAV have been the strange hght In
his eyes-Kelsea doesn't recall winch
caused the deputy to study the face
before him. He had seen it before,
somewhere, he thought. AS he CROPPED
hack into his recollection for the an
swer his eyes fell to the open news
paper in his lap.
81 Am Thaw," Said Fugitive.
Kelsea started. On the page before
him was the picture Of the man VINO
was speaking. 1t was labelled, in far
ing, type, with the name Harry X.
Thaw."
There was no mistaking it. The man
and the picture were one. Kelsea knit
his eyebrows and looked at his ques-
toner silently.
You don't know who I am, do you?'
asked the stranger, quietly.
Il think l could give a good guess.
Kelsea replied, now certain Of his man.
WHO am To-
You're Thaw-Harry X. Thaw.'
The strangers eyelids fiickered for
an instant as he smiled back his an
swer.
II am Thaw." he said, in the same
quiet, even tone, but you don't want
me- You couldn't do anything with
me. | was acquitted of that murder,
and they can't extradite me-"
Taking his cue from Thaw, the dep
uty replied with equal quietude:
mo, l guess not. Where are you
going?"
IT am going to Canada" Thaw said.
"Then I'm going to cross water"
The conversation ended with Thaw's
resuming his seat. Kelsea got off, as
he had planned to. at Colebrook. One
Of three men who were with Thaw got
off. too. Kelsea thinks. to shadow him.
Kelsea went home, and few minutes
later was whipping the gravel or the
state road beneath the tires of high
powered automobile in a whirlwind
chase for the train.
Tracked Runaway in Night.
Thaw and his companions alighted at
Hereford, with the deputy burning the
road a few miles behind them. Al
Hereford Thaw hired a liveryman' s
team and drove over the international
line into the Canadian woods After
a five-mile trip that seemed purpose
less. the driver became suspicious OF
his fares and refused 10 go further.
II was dark, but Thaw and his COM
IN panions did not balk at this. They
III paid the liveryman. dismissed him. and
by starlight began TO thread their way
through the forest to the open.
They found a farmer who had gone
to bed, but aroused him and bargained
a while for the use Of his team. Finally
Thaw offered the farmer 50 to drive the
trio TO the village of St Hermenigllde
de Garford The farmer dressed, ana
by the light of lantern harnessed his
horses as Thaw and his companions
stood by. II was a short drive. Thaw
and his two friends were in their rooms
at the village hotel at 1870 o'clock.
Kelsea's road lay through the village,
too. He quickly learned Of the arrival
Of the three strangers. and telephoned
the police at Coaticook. The police.
consisting of the village constable. de-
cided to let Thaw sleep. At o'clock
this morning however. he went TO st.
Hermenigilde de Garford and to the
hotel and placed the three men under
arrest. After Thaws arrest Kelsea
telegraphed the asylum authorities at
Matteawan, claiming the rewa.'d.
Denied Identity Whom Caught.
why. I'm not Thaw." were the fusi-
tives first words when he gazed on
the constables nightstick. 'I'll bet you
so I'm not
Notwithstanding. Thaw and his
friends were bundled into an automo-
bile and whisked away to Coaticook.
There Thaw was put in the village
lookup. the constable standing guard
at the door. Thaw sent out word that
he wanted a lawyer, and Or. w. L.
Shurtleff was summoned TO the lock-
ND. His first words were an admonition
to his client not to talk TO the re-
porters.
Before Thaw had been long in the
lookup he admitted his identity. His
companions however. declined to say
anything about themselves.
After Thaw and his counsel had spent
an hour or more in consultation, Thaw
was taken for a hearing TO the office
of Justice Of the Peace Dupuis and for
mally arraigned on the following in
dicfment.