The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-18
THAW, ESCAPED FROM ASYLUM.
 WRITES MOTHER HE'S GOING TO
 REST, THEN 60 TO THAW HOME

Thaw party. It having been ppe-ar- ranged that the party should meet a yacht at Feoton Point in the after noon, time had to be killed and this had to be done in the sparselys settled portions of RidgefeId.
 Later in the morning, MT. Fitch, oG Wilton, obtained copies of the morning papers which had pictures of Harry T11aw and Mrs. Godfrey G. whitney who was formerly Miss Alice Thaw in them.
 After discussing the matter wi4h AGrB. Fitch, who sat on the piazza. at the.z time the automobilists stopped ito mako inquiries, he Is convinced, that. the man with the dark moustache who fsati with the woman was in the third Sau-f tonnobile instead of the second. Hyi supplying, with a pencil a, uouStachoi to the picture of Harry ThaW, Mr. Fitch says he recognizes this passen-i ger and the likeness of Miss ThaW was strf1dngfy like that of the woman
 in the car. Mrs. Fitch also says sf1ei notices the strong resemblance of fhsl newspaper pictures to the two pass- engers. She says that while fher hue- band was talking with crose in the
 machines she had opportunity to fob-
 serve all the persons in the cars Sand is positive that all five in the szcond. car were men She thought tho man in the third car with the reddish Van. Dyke beard was a. physician and her impression at the time was that one
 or the other of the passengers wss a patient.
 Inquiries made along theAshore be
 tween South Norwalk and Stannfor Q. today, failed to bring out any fnfor- ! nation as to rakish looking craft with | a white hull, yellow sm okestacks with | bands around them, said last night to- l have lain off Roton Point during tha afternoon Yachtsmen who were on the water along that part of Lopg ! ar--
 would have paid particularly attention.
 to such a craft as numerous p1eaSurs i boats of all kinds were moving up and ! down the Sound all yesterday. On | the shore at Roton Point no one was found who remembered seeing a pow erboat picking up a party although 1 this might have happened ss power boats are owned all along thef fshore- l The local police have been requested 1 by New York authorities to keep a I close watch and apprehepd Harry E- l Thaw should he enter this city The l number of the machine in which he sent to this city and s4esterday the rail I road depot, streets and docks were closely watched for his appearance. i The Park City, which s1eft here shortly after 6 o'clock, was very carefully Il searched as it was reported one of I three large automobile parties Whose cars were carried across tailed some
 what with the description of the miss
 ing man and his companions Officer Il Gorgas, detailed to ascertain, found i that there was none who was in any q way identified with Th%@v on board
 A close watch of the harbor ,ss well I as the shore line, is being kept today Ito prevent his possible escape by walt- ing yacht or steamer. Il is the be- lief of judges and lawyers in this city today that even if captured ThaW ' could not be requisitioned into New T York state unless he committed a T crime here and was found to be 1e-
 galIy insane Opinion then differs as
 to whether he would not have to be
 sent to Pittsburg, as a charge upon that city rather than to his place Of lconhnement in MatteaWan-