The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-08-19
STILL NO TRACE
OF HARRY THAW
Wide Search for Matteawan
Fugitive Meets With
Failure.
VANISHES COMPLETELY
Arrest Of Two Men Who
Aided in Conspiracy Is
Vaguely Reported.
THAw WRITES TO MOTHER
Hurriedly Scrawled Message to
Mrs. Thaw Mailed Here
by Confederate.

Harry Thaw is still at large.
The wires were singing through all the
Eastern States yesterday with rumors
that "he has just passed through this
town" but he wasn't really found. nor is
there any evidence that any Of the men
reported as Matteawans escaped prisoner
was really he.
The most definite information that
reached New York yesterday bore on his
intentions. rather than his whereabouts.
His mother. at the Hotel Gotham. got
a scrawled note saying that he would
take a rest before going to their country
home In Cresson. Pa.
Last night Roger O'Mara. the Thaw
detective. said In PittsburE that Thaw
would he home In forty -eieht hours.
The Dutchess county authorities think
they have found a way to have Thaw
getting out q warrant for conspiracy ito
prevent t,sstice and to interfere with the
administration Of the law
Warrants were issued also for the six
other men who are alleged to have helped
him escape-Howard Barnum. the Mattea-
wan attendant. past whom Thaw raced as
he ran through the gates Of the asylum
grounds to the black automobile that
tDok him away. and Richard J. Butler.
Eugene Duffy. Roger Thompson. Michael
OKeefe and Thomas Flood. all Of New
York. Barnum 10 under arrest and search
10 being made for the i've other men.
"Bosh," says Auto Owner.
An automobile renting agent said last
night that the only so horse-p power black
Packard touring car in this city for public
hire is owned by John Collins, who uses
part OF q saloon at Forty-thrd street and
Seventh avenue on Long Acre Square,
as his renting headquarters. According
to the chauffeurs who stood about Long
Acre Square last night discussing Thaws
escape. Roger Thompson. one Of the five
men who loafed about the hotel In Beacon
for two days before Thaw's getaway and
for whom a warrant il now out as the
driver Of the car that took Thaw to
Connecticut, il employed by Collins to
drive that black six cylinder Packard.
Thompson used to be hackman. He
read books and picked up a lot Of in
formation that caused him to be known
among his comrades as Educated Roger.
His friends among the chauffeurs said
last night that they had heard Thompson
had been out In Collins's black car for
several days. Somebody had the nerve
yesterday to ask John Collins. boss Of a
fiock Of public automobiles. II his black
n - hA hoA ho nod
In.
"Bosh. bosh. my boy; nothing to IT,
he replied.
Thompson IL known as a friend of ex-
Assemblyman Richard J. Butler. said to
be the Butler Of the Thaw escaping party
This Butler 10 the president Of the long
shoremen's union. In 1902 he was elected
to the Assembly by Tammany from the
Ninth district Dock or Hooks Butler
they call him along the waterfront. His
wife says he left home Friday. came home
Saturday night and went away again
Sunday morning She hasn't seen him
since.
Flood. another Of the indicted men,
drives a landaulet II was In landau
let that Thaw started on the frst lap OF
his dash from the asylum.
The letter which Mrs. Mary Copley
Thaw received from her son while she
was eating breakfast at the Gotham yes
! terday morning was as follows:
IAN we'll. Shall take a rest before
coming to Elmhurst, ~ I might be asked
for interview and do not want to refuse
yet do not care to make any statement
Hope N. and g. arrived safe and you will
70 home together. II. X T."
Elmhurst 10 the country homo Of the
Thaws In Cresson. Pa. m. and G." re-
fers to Margaret and George Carnegie
sister and brother-in-la Of Thaw, who
returned from Europe on Saturday. The
letter was written on q half sheet ot
rough white paper In q scrawly hand
| that indicated to Mrs. Thaw that Harry
had dashed It of In an automobile.
Intended tn telegraph.
Across the top Of the sheet was written
| "Night letter. fifty words. Is cents" Mrs.
Thaw assumed that tho message was
originally intended to be telegraphed. but
that one Of the men who helped Thaw
escape brought It to New York 1t was
mailed q little before midnight on Sun
day at Station o. l12 West Eighteenth
| street.
Mrs. Thaw was very happy after re.
ceiving II, and she spoke Of her sons
escape from the hospital for the criminal
insane ~ "a neat Job" She will return
| to Elmhurst on q Pennsylvania train
leaving here at . :2b this morning.
II became known yesterday that >Thaw vi
escape upset new plan for his legal rs.
lease from Matteawan. He had retained
ex-Judgs William Olmsted Of General
Sessions ~ his lawyer In this attempt
Judge Olmsted had dug up u law which
no interpreted ~ compelling the Bureau
Of Deportation to send hack to his own