The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-19
On This Technically Does New
York State Base Hope OF
Bringing About Return.
HIS SECLUSIoN is ABSOLUTE
Except for Short Note to Mother.
There Is Nothing Tangible
Heard During Day.
tBy Associated prcss.l

OF Harry X. Thaw's freedom, and the
police of the United states and Canada
hac not picked up his trail. They
seek him, not as the slayer OF Stan
ford White, or as an escaped lunatic,
but on warrant issued at Pough-
keepsie to-day, charging him with
conspiring with the aged Keeper, How
ard Barnum. and the five men who
managed the asylum delivery. On
such technicality does New York
state base it's hope Of Bringing about
the fugitive's return. Both factions
OF the double barrcled government at
Albany have promised rigid investiga-
ton, and the exertion OF every effort
20 bring about his capture
Thaw's seclusion to-day and to-
night was absolute. Out of the cloud
Of dust which swirled in the wake OF
the black automobile. bearing Thaw
and his liberators from Matteawan
Sunday, nothing tangible had come
except 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
Crcsson, Pa. In obedience to this plan,
Mrs. Thaw purposes TO start for Crcs-
son tomorrow morning
Happy grlish almost In her joy.
scrawdel note from the son whose es-
capades have cost the family mil
lion, and added that whatever Harry
did would meet with her approval.
This, in view Of his announced inten-
ton OF entering Pennsylva MIA, gave
belief that Thaw was preparing to
take mis- case before the courts of that
state, and relying on the kinh in
American laws relative TO the insane
charged with no crime. TO oppose ex
tradition, and duplicate in Pennsyl-
vania If possible the course of John
Armstrong Chaloner i'll Virginia.
ExtrnditRbIe OTcnsc.
1t was in anticipation of such a move
that the New York authorities caused
keepsie. Conspiracy, according to the
District Attorney of Duchess County,
constitutes an extraditable offense.
Close associates in the family indi-
Gated tonight that the groundwork of
q legal fight in Pennsylvania had al
ready been laid. DR.. Brtton u. Evans,
the alienist who testified in Thaw's be-
half at the murder trials. held a tcle-
Phone conference with Mrs. Thaw this
afternoon, and 1t was said that he
would accompany her to Pennsylvania
tomorrow. There are TO be confer
ences with counsel. and meantime, it is
understood Thaw is to remain in hid
ing.
Figuratively. rs we'll as literally.
Thaw left behind him only n cloud of
Duchess County dust. Rumors of his
passage, descriptions of black automo-
biles, tales or yacht boardings in Long
Island Sound, speclSled the days news.
The yacht Endymion, OF George Lauder,
Jr.. a distant relative OF the Thaws by
marriage, found mention in the crop
OF rumors. After having left Vineyard
Haven, Mass. the craft was reported
as cruising somewhere in the Sound.
possibly not far from South Norwalk,
Conn repeatedly mentioned as an OBJ
jective point for Thaw. had he cared
10 take to sea. Inquiry at the New
York Yacht Club disclosed that the En-
dymion was a slow boat. and attaches
there secuted the idea that Thaw would
have gone aboard.
Only Two Routes Open.
While there was nothing to support
the theory that Thaw had taken TO the
seas. this seemed to those who have
followed the case TO be the ikcliest
course. Leaving Matteawan. only two
routes which did not double back into
New York State lay open to him. one
southwest along the border of the
Great Lakes and across Lake Erie to
north -jutting nubbin of Pennsyl-
vania. The other is the water route.
Aboardship in the sea Thaw could bide
his time in comparative safety and
Delaware River and Delaware Bay.
In view OF the fact that entrance
into Canada might mean clash with
the immigration authorities there. the
theory was advanced that Thaws adj
visers would not have him take any
such risk.
Dispatches from Ottawa, though
quoting no official. said that il Thaw
halted within the Dominion. he nigh,
| be deported as an undesirable alien.
although If he had a through ticket
to Europe there would be no stopping
| him. The state authorities at Harris
| burg. Pa. indicated that If he came
| within that state. his case would be
referred to the Attorney-GeneraIs Of
flee. provided New York asked for his
| eXrradition. The Philadelphia police
| said they would detain him if New
York requested il. Connecticut tosk
the view that he could he held there
as an insane fugitive, but Massachu-
| sets officials were inclined to think
that nothing short of criminal
| charge would warrant Iis detention In
that State
Second only to the search for Thaw
| is that for Richard J. Butler. Roger
, Thompson, Michael O'Keefe. Eugene
Duffy and Thomas Flood. the quintet
whose muscle. nerve and skill with
automobiles did Che stopwatch work
OUTSIDE the asylum Wills neSe HNe
did the rough work" Who was the
brains Of the plot-whether Thaw
himself. or some ostute lawyer-will
have TO nc developed later.
The description OF Butler TALES
closely with that Of an eX-assembly-
man of tire same name from New York
| City. William Gordon. proprietor OF
! the little hotel at Fishkll landing,
where the ave made their headquar-
%
| cape. identified tonight a photograph
| of the eN-assemblyman as one of his