Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-08-21
HARRY THAWS
BRIEF LIBERTY

~. Id lAC OA0JCI VI GIduIOTQ WnlfQ
escaped from the hospital for the
criminal insane here at 5:45 O'Clock
this morning. A dart for liberty
through an open gate. a leap into the
open door of a powerful automobile
that stood %quiVering outside, and a
fight like a rocket for the Connecticut
state line, thirty miles away, accom-.
plished his escape.
Tonight he was still at large and the
hospital authorities felt certain he was
outside the state. Once, beyond its
boundaries. Thaw is free. Only
months, perhaps years, of litigation
can bring him back to Matteawan. and
then only in one event-that he be
adjudged insane in the state to which
lie has fed.
Five confederates manned the car in
which Thaw escaped and a big black
limousine which trailed in past the
asylum gate. The police have the de-
scriptions Of Thaw's c~onfederates and
the names under which they registered
at a local hotel Friday night and are
seeking them. The hospital authori-
ties believed that Thaw had fed to the
shore of Long Island Sound and board
81 a yacht waiting with steam I'D to
rush to Europe.
A reward of $500 for Thaw's appre-
hension has been offered by DIR. r. F.
C. Keib, superintendent of the asylum.
Howard II. Barnum, the attendant at
the gate past whom Thaw flashed in
lis break for freedom, is under arrest,
end other arrests are expected to fol-
low in the rigid investigation begun by
Dr. Keib.
Mrs. ThaW Alarmed.
Harry has threatened to kill me-"
Mrs. Thaw said, land l believe my
presence in New York prompted him
to escape. Four years ago he told
HE, I suppose I'll have to kill you
I.eXt.' Many men will have cause for
fear now that he is free. He consid-
ers DR.. Austin Flint his worst enemy
and undoubtedly will try to make
trouble for him.
The state of New York has a great
deal to answer for in this case. What
Harry Thaw has been allowed to do at
Matteawan is an outrage to think Of
bribery connived t and keepers bullied
by all the power of his money. And
TOW he is allowed to escape. 1 sup
pose twenty or thirty thousand dollars
@ONh pA GUY SOOu " 0Ou4S pCOp1C.
"One thing is certain: Harry. won't
stay in hiding long. He'll be heard
from soon. A few drinks makes him
a raving mailman and when that hap
mems he'll head straight for New York.
He's crazy to get here and he won't be
able to stay away. I have made up
my mind, however, not to worry. If
anything is going to happen l can't
stop it. I am awfully glad my baby is
iii London, though, and / think he'll be
safe there.
81 am thorugh, absolutely, with the
~Thaws. / was the happiest of girls
aIntiI I met Harry. Then my life dark
ened and | was miserable, indeed. l
determined last May to cut adrift from
him. From that time | ] have been hap
py. I don't want to use his name be-
cause l think it is hoodoo. l don't
want my baby called that name. 1
don't want to curse anybody with it.
ThaW Still at Large.
New York, Aug. 18.-SundoWn to-
night marked the thirty-sixth hour OF
Harry K. Thaw's freedom and the po-
lice of the United States and Canada
have not picked up his trail. They
seek him not as the slayer of Stanford
White, or as escaped lunatic, but on a
warrant issued at Poughkeepsie today
charging him with conspiring with the
aged keeper, Howard Barnum, and the
FIVE men who managed the asylum de-
livery. On such a technica1ity does
New York state base it's hope of bring
ing about the fugitive's return. Both
factions of the doubled-barrelled gov
eminent at Albany, have promised
rigid investigation and the exertion of
every effort to bring about his capture.
ThaY's seclusion today and to-
right, was absolute. Out of the cloud
of dust which swirled in the wake of
fE9 black automobile in the wake of
MS mberators from Matteawan Sunday
morning nothing tangible had come
except a 1anconic letter from ThaW
himself assuring his aged mother IN
New Yonk that he desired rest and
would in due time join her at the
'ThaW country place, Elmhurst, at
ericsson, Pa. In obedience to this
plan, Mrs. Thaw purposes to start Tor
Cresson tomorrow morning. -
His Mother Happy.
Happy, giriish almost In her JOY,
Mrs. Thaw exhibited the hastily
sCrawled note from the son who es-
capades have cost the family a million
and added that whatever Harry did
would meet With her approval. This,
in view of his ANNOUNCED intention of
entering Pennsylvania, gave bGGsis to
the belief that Thaw was prepafln Y
take his case before the courts Of h
state and relying on the kink in Timer
lean laws relative to the insane charg-
Cd with no crime, to oppose extraditlon
and 6IJn1ioo4. e. unnSo IF nnCC-
ible, the course of John Armstrong
~Chaloner, in Virginia.
1t was in anticipation of such q
move that the New York authorities
caused the warrant to be sworn out at
r~oughkeepsie. Conspiracy, according
10 district attorney of Duchess coun-
", constitutes an extraditahfe ff6nse |