The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-01-13
fHAW INDICTED ON
SERIOUS CHARGE
Slayer of White Accused Of At
taCking SChooIboy and War
rant Issued for Arrest.
ALLEGED TO HAVE HIT YOUTH
Testimony Brought Out During Two
Other Trials Had to Do With
Pttsburgher Whipping
Young Women.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Jan. 11.-That the
New York indictments charging Harry
K. Thaw with maltreatment OF Fred
erick Gump, Jr., are "frame-up," is
the intimation of persons close to
Thaw here.
"Mr. Thaw will prove his innocence
at the proper time," was the confident
declaration of his Pittsburgh attorney,
Stephen Stone.
New York, Jan. 11.-Harry K.
Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, was
indicted on charges that he tricked
Frederick Gump, Jr., nineteen years
old, of Kansas City, to come to this
city, imprisoned him at the Hotel NC
Alpin and assaulted him with buggy
whip on three different occasions.
Thaw's bodyguard, known variousiy
as George O'Beirne, ]. A. Brauer ana
Frank Flynn, charged with completely,
was arrested in Philadelphia.
The police of every city in the Unit
ed States have been asked to be on the
lookout for Thaw, the request having
been sent out broadcast. 1t is be-
lieved, however, that the fugitive will
be located at his Pittsburgh home.
Former Wife Operated On.
About the same time that news Of
the indictment of Thaw became
known his former wife, Evelyn Nes-
bit Thaw, now Mrs. Jack Clifford, was
operated on for nervous disorder,
frcne ,piaioI.. sqte4 has suffered for sey-
eral months.
Frank p Walsh, former chairman
of the federal commission on indus
trial relations, represented the Gump
boys father in laying the case before
the district attorney.
Made Boy a Protege.
"Thaw's acquaintances with young
Gump goes back to December, 1915"
said Mr.. Walsh, "soon after the Gump
family moved to Long Beach, Cal.
Fred, who was graduated from the
Kansas City high school, entered Berk-
eley Polytechnic institute for a course
of engineering He went to Long
Beach to spend the weekend with his
parents, and it was there that Thaw
met him in an ice cream pavilion.
Offered Position by ThaW.
"The next Gump heard of Thaw was
when he received a Christmas card
from him. Later Thaw opened up a
correspondence with Gump.
"Many letters came to Mrs. Gump,
addressed to her son, and in nearly
all of them Thaw made an offer of a
position. Finally, on December 20 last,
Thaw offered Gump $50 month and
expenses to either take a job In his
plant or to enroll for a course in the
Carnegie institute.
"The elder Gump advised his son
to take the chance offered at the Car
negie school. In a wire Thaw directed
| Gump to come to New York and stop
at the McAlpin, where Gump arrived
on Christmas eve.
Says Thaw Whipped Him.
"At the hotel Thaw had reserved 8
suite and rented two adjoining rooms
Soon after Gump retired his door
opened and he charges that he saw
Thaw, armed with short, stucky
whip, rushing at him. The boy leapec
| from the bed and tried to get out OF
the door and windows. Both were
| locked. From that time until he was
almost insensibe Thaw, according to
the boys story, drove Gump around
the room, raising welts across his bare
back.
"Young Gump says he lay on the
floor all night, and that on Christmas
morning Thaw again came in, accom-.
panied by man who was instructed
to keep the boy prisoner. The guard
took Gump for walk. He first threat
ened him with bodily harm, said the
boy, if he tried to get away. After
returning to the hotel Gump lodged
his guard and boarded a train fol
home"
During Thaw's trial for the murder
of Stanford White 1t was charged that
he had enticed young women to 4
room in the tenderloin, tied them e
bed and whipped them.