The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-10
Call il Persecution.

Call IL Persecution.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 10.-Har
ry Kendall Thaw's friends here today
took the attitude that New York
seeks to prosecute him and that II
the fugitive is apprehended, extradit'
ed and placed on trial in the empire
state, that he will make his fight on
those grounds.
First intimation that this may be
the keynote of Thaw's defense came
today from Roger O'Mara. The form
er detective and guardian Of Thaw,
said today that there are lot OF
people who would like to put Thaw
away
That Thaw will put up strenuous
fight was foregone conclusion.
Gumps WI Not Talk.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. 10.-Fred
P. Gump, father of the nineteen year
old boy on whose charges Harry X.
Thaw was indicted yesterday In New
York City, was silent at his home
here today as to the charges against
the slayer of Stanford White. Gump
refused absolutely to discuss the In
dictment charging Thaw with kidnap-
ping his son and assaulting the boy
with q whip.
II am up against proposition
that precludes me from saying or
doing anything whatsoever in the
matter" Gump said
Gump was asked If he would say
how 1t happened that the boy was
allowed to take the trip alone to
New York
81 wish you wouldn't ask that, .
Mrs. Gunp broke III. We don't want
to be, discourteous, nor will we an
swer. questions.
Fugitive from Justice Again.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 10.-Harry
Kendall Thaw was once more fugi-
tive today-his whereabouts seeming
ly problem for New York detectives
seeking him yet to solve.
The man who has been almost con-
tinually before the public for fifteen
years as husband of Evelyn Nesbit.
slayer Of Stanford White, privileged
inmate of a lunatic asylum, fugitive,
fighter for liberty, auto speeder and
moralist, has been indicted by grand
jury in New York state for flashing
Fredk Gump, 10 year old Kansas City
youth, whom Thaw recently made MS
companion, at the McAlpih hotel in
New York.
Assault is the charge against the
millionaire manager of the Thaw es-
tate.
The best of a mass of reports and
admittedly uncertain-lo-
Gated Thaw today at the family home
In Beechwood boulevard.
1t is said that he returned to Pitts.
VI lit III,
mother, Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw yes.
terday afternoon. II so, the cofdon OF
detectives have really solved the prob.
lem of locating Thaw, only to run into
what may prove a still harder one
getting him.
Servants at the Beechwood boule-
ward house would receive no one today.
Repeated telephone calls brought only
word that neither Mrs. Thaw nor her
son was there Roger O'Mara. detec-
tive and Thaw's guardian, declared
that he has been i'll and knows moth
ing of his ward. Others Of the family
denied knowledge.
- Strict watch was being kept at Cres-
son, near Johnston. It was reported
that yesterday Mrs. Thaw telegraphed
the keeper at "Elmhurst," her country
nome Inere, 10 prepare me iOuSe lOT
visitors who were motoring. De-
tectives and newspaper reporters who
hurried there when the news OF Thaw's
indictment was published yesterday
afternoon, found nothing to indicate
that the Thaws or any other visitors
were there. The house was appar-
emily empty of life.
May Go Back to Asylum.
NEW YORK, Jan. 10-Another
series of bitter court battles in which
Harry X. Thaw, slayer of Stanford
White, will first endeavor to avoid
being returned to New York state,
and II unsuccessful. will then fight
to the end. to avoid being again COM
mitted to "Matteawan, was expected
here today.
With the indictment and search for
Thaw on charges of kidnapping and
whipping Frederick Gump, 10 year
old boy. all the testimony introduced
IL his murder trials in an effort to
prove him insane was recalled. Eve
lyn Nesbit, divorced wife Of Thaw.
told of his throwing scalding water