The sun., 1917-01-10
George c. O'Byrne. Thaw's
BOdyguard. Who Shares
Rooms. Also Indicted.
MIGRANTS ARE ISSUED:
SEARCH IN MANY CITIES
Friend of Stanford Whites
Slayer in Custody in
Philadelphia.

Harry Kendall Thaw. charged with
enticng a nineteen-year-old boy from
California TO New York and beating him
with a whip in room at the Hotel Nc
Apin on Christmas night, was indicted
by the New York Grand Jury yesterday
FOR kidnapping and second degree as
Saut. Detectives with warrant ex-
pected to find him at the Belgravia Hotel
in Philadelphia. but II he was there he
got away. and the police everywhere are
looking for him.
Thaw's companion or bodyguard,
George {. O'Byrne. was indicted for kid
mapping. being accused OF helping Thaw
10 keep the boy prisoner. 4 man sup
posed to be OByrne was arrested in
Philadelphia at railroad station. He
said that he was Oliver Brewer, a Pitts
burg salesman, and was not the man
wanted in New York. He admitted that
he had been with Thaw ''as a friend in
Philadelphia up to Sunday night.
Thaw was in Jacks restaurant, Sixth
avenue and Forty third street. as late as
last Sunday morning. Persons who saw
him there say he was drinking brandy
and c~-Ass-s~eRt-sa&-Ae neglected
TO pay his check. For some time after
his release he kept away from the white
lights, but recently they have llumined
him again. In the last week OF Decem-
Der he was in Jacks nearly every night,
always in evening dress and buying re-
freshment for all who cared to share
his bounty.
Roy Comes to Testify.
The boy who makes the charges is
Frederick Gump, Jr.. of Kansas City,
son of a manufacturer Of trunk leather
he says he escaped from Thaw on the
morning after Christmas. hurried back
TO Kansas city and told his mother and
father what had happened. They told
Frank y. Walsh. who has known the
Gumps for long time. Walsh came
night TO New York with the boy and
they gave District Attorney Swami the
story.
That was last Friday. BY o'clock
Saturday morning William Harman
Black Assistant District Attorney, had
examined all the available witnesses. in
Guiding employees |of the McAlpin and
had the case ready for the Grand Jury.
Last night Walsh and young Gump went
10 Philadelphia, where the boy was to
see II the prisoner Brewer was the man
The minimum punishment for the
crime OF kidnapping Is five years in
prison, and the maximum is fifty years
A Brooklyn Judge recently sent the kid
napper of child to the penitentiary for
forty-nine years. The penalty upon con-
rlction for second degree assault is an
lndeterminate sentence of not more than
i've years.
Previous Beating Charges.
The offence of which Fred Gump. who
10 tall, thin. dark haired boy, not Ions
out Of high school, accuses Thaw, recalls
some of the myriad stories told in court
about the antics of the man who killed
Stanford White, who was twice tried fol
his life, sent to Matteawan as insane
and after his escape declared sane by 6
Jury on July Is. 1915. and set free b,
Justice Hendrick.
In an insanity hearing at White Plains
In July 1909. Susan Merrill told of see
Ing Thaw, before the shooting of White
lsshing girls with dog whips in a room
which lac hired in Mrs. Merrilrs lodgin,
house in Manhattan. Evelyn Nesbi
Thaw, tcstifying in the two trials of he
husband, said she had heard stories o
his beating women.
William Travers Jerome. who as Dis
trct Attorney prosecuted Thaw relent
lessly and later as special Deputy At
torney-General did his best to keep hin
In Matteawan, has always insisted tina
Thaw, if set at liberty, would "breal
loose sooner or later and do some vio
lent thing particularly II he did not kee'
away from alcohol. Thaw. according 4
oil niaht observers of Broadway an
way stations, has been drinking bot
champagne and brandy on recent trips I
this city from his Pittsburg home
FIRST Met BOY In 1913.
Mr Jerome was asked yesterday wha
he thought OF the developments.
i don't want to say anythins' h
replied Il am unwilling to make an
statement This simply confirms m
Judgment"
The story of Frederick Gunp. Thay
and O'Byrre as told to the District AT
torncy and Frank +, Walsh, who was a
the Holland House yesterday, runs sub
stantially as follows:
In November, 1915. four months afte
Thaw was set free in New York on
when the State decided not to appes
from the sanity verdict. he was enjoyin
himself at Long Beach. Cal, resoi
near Los Angeles. The Gump famil!
having moved to Long Beach from Kar
sns City, whittier they later returned
were among those who believed ths
TTaw had been horribly mistreated an
whatever his past would prove himself
worthy citizen,
Thaw met younG Gump in an IL
cream parlor and became interested
MIN Gump told him ne expected TO er
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