The Prescott daily news., 1913-08-19
TELLS HER HE WILL REST BE- FORE GOING TO COUNTRY
 HOME NEAR cREssoN, PA.
GUARDS EVIDENTLY BREED
Prisoner Bushes Into Waiting Auto When Gate Is Opened for Milk man, and Machine Carried
 Him Into Connecticut.

New York, Aug. 19.-Harry K. escaped from the asylum for the crim- final insane at Matteawan, is general ly believed to be safely beyond the borders of New York state. It is the consensus of opinion that great sum of money was employed by Thaw and his friends in arranging the escape and that he was aided by persons in- side as we'll as outside the asylum.
 Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw received a letter from her son Harry. Thaw said he planned to take a rest be- fore going to the Thaw country place, Elmhurst, at Cresson, Pa.
 Most of those familiar with the law on the subject say that Thaw can re- main free man so long as he remains out of New York state, as extradition is considered impossible under the cir cumstances. In this respect Thaw's status Is similar to that of John Arm strong Chaloner, who escaped from Bloomingdale asylum in 1900 Cha loner now is living in Virginia, enjoy ing the comforts easily obtained by his great wealth, and occasionally writing an article for the newsnapers on his views of the worlds events.
 With the Connecticut state line only 30 miles from the asylum and Thaw and his conspirators travelling by au- tomobile at great speed, reaching Con- recticut was a matter of 80 minutes or so. No authenticated trace of Thaw, however has been found in Connecticut.
 Thaw was in the asylum as a per son found mot guilty of murder by reason of insanity" This makes his eXtradition, in case he is found in an other state, almost impossible. Tn England, In similar cases. a person is found guilty, but insane"
 Chances of Extradition.
 When found-and it is considered foregone conclusion that he will be found-the New York authorities, it was said, might try to force his extrs- dition on one of two grounds:
 1. That in escaping he technically assaulted a keeper. 2. That bribery. of some attache of the asylum could be shown.
 One of these, if sustained, would constitute an extraditable offense.
 Howard Barnum, the gatekeeper by whom Thaw darted through the open. ing gate to an automobile, remains in Jail at Poughkeepsie. He maintains that he was innocent of any implica- tion in any plot.
 The shades were drawn in the dor mitories and the inmates were getting their second sleep when Thaw left his room at Matteawan. He was fully dressed The milkman's cart was rumbling on the road outside as he walked through the storeroom and into the outer court or yard of the asylum grounds. Howard Barnum, sole attendant at the road gate, was pacing back and forth when Thaw closed the storeroom door behind him and apparently did not grasp the sig nificance of Thaw's.early rising.
 Long years of residence at the asy- lum and repeated declarations by Thaw that he would never attempt to obtain his freedom except by legal means had established the madman's status as "trusty."
 There was little out of the ordinary in his appearance even at so early an hour in the courtyard. and if Barnum saw him-as to this no one save the hospital authorities could say, and they refused to talk-he raised no question.
 A six-cylinder touring car, black and 60-horsepower, followed by limousine, also black, loafed lazily along the road as the milkman drew near the gate. Thaw, standing few feet away, apparently unconcerned, waited until Barnum unlocked the gate and swung it wide to let the milkman enter. At the same moment the two cars drew up on the farther side of the road, opposite the gate. and stood still, their engines throb- k