The Washington herald., 1917-01-12
THROAT SLASHED,
TRAW WILL Live
Famous Fugitive Tries to Die
in Philadelphia Room
ing House.
OBy the International New. Service,

CBy the International News seryice.)
Philadelphia, jan 1.-THE spectacular
career OF Harry Kendall Thaw is not yet
ended
Hunted by the police Of dozen cities
and faced by the possibility Of being
doomed to an insane asylum or a prison
for life, the man who killed Stanford
White and whose Id escapades stirred
two continents, sis thed his throat and
wrist with a razor today.
Thaw's act was committed in West
Philadelphia rooming house. He had
sought refuge here under an assumed
name to avoid arrest on the criminal
by Frederick Gump. jr., Kansas City
schoolboy.
Removed to a private room in st.
Mary's Hospital. after lapse Of hours.
the famous fugitive was placed in the
hands of a number of surgeons. including
his own physician, DR.. Ellwood ]. Kirby.
Twenty stitches were taken in two
wounds on the left side of his necl and
ten in the left wrist where dia 3onal
sweep of the razor had severed small
artery.
Mercury In Coat.
'Thaw will recover" declared DR.. Kirby
tonight However, he Is terribly weak
ened bv loss of blood and his brain wIll
hardly function. He will not be in con-
dition tC be removed from the hospital for
4 long period. perhaps weeks"
Thaw evidently had intended to do away
with himself by .poison. A tablet Of
biChlOride Of mercury was found in the
pocket of ihs blood-saturated coat Care
full medical examination failed to dis
close evidence that he had taken any Of
the poison.
Developments tonight indicated that
Thaw, within twenty-four hours after
he slipped away from New York. en-
barked upon one OF his old-time orgies
i'll the all-night restaurants and cafes Of
Philadelphia. With chance companions.
Thaw made up a wild round Of the caba-
rets on Monday night. In a number Of
places he danced with women and every
where he drank heavily. He was in such
condition around midnight that he was
refused table at the BeIevue-Stratford
Hotel, where his name was inscribed upon
the private register.
The drinking bout ended at 2 o'clock
tuesday morning, when he went to the
Belgravia Hotel and to a room engaged
by Oliver c. Brewer, in whose seized
suitcase was IOunQ eNlucnCc
Thaw with Young Gump and other boys
Mrs. Thaw Coming East.
This WAS just fourteen hours after
Thaw and his mother, Mrs. Mary Copley
Thaw, had testified in civil suit in the
municipal court here. Mrs sThaw re-
turned to Pittsburgh noon Monday. She
Is said to be hurrying here tonight.
Thaw remained in Brewers room only
two hours, detectives learned tonight. At
1 O'Clock Tuesday morning a phone call
came and Thaw Immediately left the
hotel He got into a big touring car in
which were seated two men. One OF
these men, by his own admission, was
Samuel G. Maloney, superintendent of
the Philadelphia office of the Val OFar-
rell detective agency.
Aaloney declared tonight that he had
been instructed to sober Thaw up and
get him in condition to be taken to New
York for arraignment. Maloney said the
plan, to which Thaw had agree !, was
for him to be taken to New Y 1rk by
motor tonight.
However that may be, the auto drove
to the modest two-story house of Mrs.
Elizabeth Tacco, at ESQ Walnut street,
in West Philadelphia.
Mrs. TaccO gave West her own room,
moving a couch into another apartment
for herself.