The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-08-18
is REPORTED THAT
He BOARDED YACHT
Wireless Inquiries Kept Up All Day.
Believed that Asylum Attendant
Bribed---Arrest Made---Stor
Of His Escape

Thaw closed the storeroom door be-
hind him and apparently did not grasp
the significance Of Thag's early ria-
ing.
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 Thaw's status as
"trustyr
There was little out Of the ordinary
in his appearance even at so early an
hour in the court yard and If Barnum
saw himas to this no one save The
hospital authorities could say last
might and they refused to talk he
raised no question
| A six-cylinder touring ear black and
sixty horse power followed BY a.
limousine. also black. oafed lazily
along the road as tine milkman drew
near the gate Thaw, standing few
fleet away, apparently uneoncerned
waited till Rarnum unlocked Tie Sa.s
and swung it wide to let the miIltnan
enter At the same moment the two
cars drew up on the farther side OF
the road opposite the gate and stop.
ped, their engines throbbing
As Barnum stepped aside for the
milkman to drive inside the grounds
he heard the gravel crunching beneath
Thaw's feet and looking up saw Thaw
flash past him straight TOR one Of the
waiting cars. Witha shout Barnum
started in pursuit, but a flying leap
landed rhaw safe in the car, the auto.
mobile wheels began turning before
the keeper fairly reached the roadway
and they were throwing up a cloud 81
dust before he had gone twenty-five
feet
Down the roadway the cars sped in
WHITING Ni'uu " uuSt that VutNAt*
blotted them from sight.
For a moment Barnum shaded hiE
eyes with his hand and watched them
] then with a great blot Oh his career d
. twenty years as keeper, he dashed
: madly back into the grounds and lock
ed the gate.
: "fhaws g0hv-escaped. he shout
ed, bursting into DR. Keib's presence
And in a moment the hunt was on.
) The great black car flashed like
E thunderbolt through stormville. ter
5 miles east of Matteawan. along tn
0 road to the Connecticut line. Earl!
d rlsera in the little hamlet saw threl
/, men-and Thaw crouching low to es
\ cape the sweep OF their rush thfougl
i the air. They we're going sevent.
miles an hour, ten miles out Of MAJ
teawan.
stormville malveled at their spec
and watched them melt away IN IL
I dust Of the state road.
IS The limousine mad been left bchint
y At the speed at which the touring ca
) travelled through storyille. it shout
. have reached the state line within hal
10 an hour.
10 Barnums breathless declaration 4
the asylum brought Dr. Keib to 81
feet like a pistol shot Within e M
ment he was standing at the telephen
and as Barnum poured the story in.
his ears repeated It over the wire /
: police seadquaFsers. Mattsewan b
: came the center Of widening rlppl
! OF telephone and telegraph alarms !
!, DR.. Keib planned pursuit
10 He might as weil have tried to cha.
,e a twelve-inch shell, The ten-mlau|
start. the high power Of thc car
which Taw made bis flight and 4
nv nearness Of the Connecticut line.
i ward which Thawa asas heading and a
~ inferior power Of the pursuing ea
ck initiated against him and made g
chase hopeless After he had diIsl
Al IN purauit he met William Flannisa
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