Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-10
HARRY Y. THAW
NOW SOUGHT FOR
ASSAUL1ING buy
Whites Slayer Is Indicted
for kidnapping and Whip
ping Youth.
FRANK ?. WALSH
MAKES COMPLAINT
lurng Kansas City Youth to New
York Uolrl christmas Night, 'FhaW
Is Alleged to Have hnshed Him
Until Bleed Ran Freely.

New York, Jan. o Harry K. ThaW,
who was released II months ago from
an asylum for the insane where he
was sent after he killed Stanford
white, was indicted here today chars-
cd with kidnapping Fred. X. Gump. 1r.,
! of Kansas City, youth OF ~. and as
sauItjng him with whip. With ThaW
was indicted on a kidnapping charge
a man described as George f.
O'Bylnes. and supposed to have beeh
employed by Thaw as bodyguard.
Word was received here tonight tnat
OByrnes had been arrested IN Phila-
dclphia, and detectives are looking lor
Thaw.
The complaint, which was placed
against Thaw with District Attorney
Swan by Frank p. walsh, former
chairman of the United States NOUS
trial relations commission, appearing
as Gump's attorney, alleges that lhaW
cnticcd the youth to room IN hotel
christmas night and there beat MN
with two whips three different tllneS
until he blcd profuseful and was al
most unconscious.
Testimony describing the whipping
of young girls by Thaw made up
some of the most sensational testl-
mony in the court action on the ques-
ton of Thaws sanity after MS ac-
o,ittal Of the murder of White on the
Ground of insanity and his committal
to Matteawan. Alienists for the state
at that time testified that whipping
vas a mania with Thaw. After sew.
eral years litigation at the cost or
several hundred thousand dollars 10
The state and to the Thaw family,
Thaw was declared sane by jury ID
haheas corpus proceedings in the lat
ter part of 1918, and he was released
by court order.
According to the information laid
before District Attorney Swami,
Thaw first met young Gump in Cali
fornia in the latter part OF 1913. lie
displaved interest in the boy and
upOn returning to his home cores
bonded with young Gump. THESE let
ters. it is said contained warnings
net to show them to anyone, put
Gump let his mother read them, anu
she answered them for him. 1haW
expressed desire to pay for the boys
education abroad. Altho proffers or
money were refused by Gump. the
hov at last finally came to New YORK,
and went to Thaw's hotel, where the
whipping is alleged to have taken
place.
Had Letters from Many Boys.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9.-Charged with
aiding and abetting Harry K. ThaW
in an alleged assault on Fred Gump,
,Jr. in New York, and with attempted
lkidnaping, a man said to be George
If. O'Byrnes, and described as Thaw's
bcdyguard, was arrested here today.
He was held for examination Friday
under bond of $1,000.
The prisoner denies that he IS
O'Byrnes, and that he is the man
wanted He says he is oliver BROW
er. and that ne is a Pittsburg sales
man.
Barney Flood, a New York detect
i've, says that the police found IN the
prisoners pocket telegram dated
December % from the authorities at
Long Beach, Calf, where ThaW met
Gump, replying to a message aileged
to have been sent by Thaw seeking
information of the whereabouts OF
the Gump boy. The detective said
they also found on the prisoner let
ters addressed to Thaw from boys
asking for positions.
Fred Gump. Jr., who arrived here
tonight accompanied by detectives,
could not positively identify the pris-
cner as the man alleged to- have been
implicated with Thaw in the assault.
The prisoner declares he had no
knowledge of the charges, and that
he knew Thaw only as a friend.
Thaw was in Philadelphia yester-
day, remaining at a hotel here last
night. being driven away by friends
in an auto at o'clock this morning,
the detectives assert. 1t is beneved
he went to Washington. y.