The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-08-21
WARRANT ISSUED
FOR HARRY THAW
Fugitive SLAYER is Charged With
Conspiracy.
WRITES TO HIS MOTHER
Pittsburgh Expects Maniac There To-
day to Begin Fight for Estate
Wife Receives Threatening
Telegram.

New York. Aug. 19.-Harry X.
Thaw remains secluded in the hiding
place to which he went after his es-
cape from the State Hospital for the
Insane at Matteawan.
No definite trace has been uncov-
cred. The clue which is the most
promising is that Thaw has taken
refuge in the New Jersey state hos
pital at Morris Plains
DR.. Britton ID. Evans, head of the
Morris Plains hospital and alienist
who testified in behalf of Thaw at
his trials for murder, visited the
fugitive's mother in the Hotel Gotham.
Later he talked at length with re.
porters and left them despite his re-
fusal to answer questions directly,
with the impression that he knew the
whereabouts and plans of Thaw and
probably had seen him in the course
of the day.
New York. Aug. 19.-Harry X. Thaw
has now had three days OF freedom,
and the police Of the United States
and Canada had not picked up his
trail. They seek him now not as the
slayer of Stanford White or as an 'es-
capped lunatic, but on warrant issued
in the supreme court at Poughkeepsie
charging him with conspiring with the
aged keeper, Howard II. Barnum, and
the f. I men who managed the asylum
delivery
Mother Hears From Him.
Thaw's seclusion is absolute. Out
Of the cloud of dust which swirled in
the wake of the black automobile bear
ing him and his liberators from Mat
teawan Sunday morning nothing tan
gible has come except a laconic letter
from Thaw himself assuring his aged
mother in New York that he desired
rest and would. in due time, join her
at the Thaw country place, Elmhurst.
at Cresson, Pa. In obedience to this
plan, Mrs Thaw purposes to start for
Cresson today.
Due in Pittsburgh Today.
Pittsburgh expects the appearance
of Thaw there today, according to one
story, which adds that by being there
before them he may be able to obtain
for himself nearly half million dol
lars, forming one Of the requests in his
fathers will This is cited in some
quarters as the reason for Thaw's es-
cape at this time.
Wires Threat to Evelyn.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw received the
following telegram:
bridgeport, Conn, Aug 49, want
you to have that name taken off the
theater at once. You realize your mis-
take H. X. T."
Thaw's wifes eyes blazed as she
read it. That name" meant plainly
the electrical sign that blazes nightly
on the theater where Mrs. Thaw is
dancing.
Figuratively as well as literally
Thaw left behind him only cloud of
Duchess county dust Rumors of his
passage, descriptions of black automo-
biles and tales of yacht boardlngs in
Long Island sound speckled the days
news.
i, Warrants Out for Six.
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, Aug 19.-At a
special term OF the supreme court here
Justice Joseph Morschauser issued
warrant for the arrest Of Harry X
Thaw, charging him with conspiracy
with Howard II. Barnum, the guard
who opened the hospital gate when
Thaw made his dash for liberty, and
five other men in making his escape
from Matteawan.
Similar warrants were issued for
Richard j. Butler Roger Thompson,
Michael O'Keefe, Eugene Duffy and
Thomas Flood Thaw's alleged accom-
plices. Barnum has been held with
out bail for examination Thursday.
Justice Marschauser issued the war
rants after taking the evidence of sew
eral witnesses,