The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-10


knowledge was vain thing; no Thaw.
3 Yesterday morning Detective Flood
reported that Thaw was in Philadel-
phia. He had gone to the Belgravia
with the man said to be O'Byrne and
had remained up half of Monday
night with the lights lit. as il a con-
ference was going on In the morn
ing, Flood telephoned, the man sup
posed by him to be O'Byrne went out.
Flood followed him to railroad sta
ton, persuaded him not to depart for
Pittsburgh and got Capt. Tate of the
Philadelphia police to make the ar
rest. Bench warrants for both Thaw
and O'Byrne had been issued by
Judge Muluueen Of General Sessions.
He Employed Two Whips
1--WE will have no trouble in getting
Thaw," Mr. Black said last night. "He
is a marked man. He cannot very
well get to Canada, for he would
have to have a passport. We are sat
isfied to capture at this time the man
who we think is O'Byrne."
Mr.. Black supplemented his earlier
story by saying that young Gump had
said Thaw had two short handled
whips, ono brown and one white.
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which he used alternately.
Thaw's chief attorney in the sanity
trial in 1915 was John d. Stanchveld.
Stanchfield said yesterday he knew
nothing about Thaw's present plight
and not heard of or from Thaw re-
Gently Thaw is being sued by Full
er & Fuller, lawyers of 10 Liberty
street, for $4,000 for legal services
said to have been rendered between
September s, 1913, and July 3, 1915.
The case was transferred from the
Queens Supreme Court to the United
States District Court. A bond OF
$500 given for Thaw by the National
Surety Co. was filed yesterday with
the clerk Of the court.
Twice Tried as Slayer.
Thaw killed Stanford White in the
Madison Square Roof Garden on
June rs, 1906. The jury in the first
trial, in which Thaw's counsel, Del
phin M. Delmas, made "dementia
Americana" famous, disagreed. ON
the second trial Thaw was tried on
the ground Of insanity and committed
in 1909 to the State Hospital for the
Insane at Matteawan.
The history of his finally successful
fight for liberty fills volumes. Mrs.
Susan Merrill, who told about the
beating of girls, did not appear at
either Of the trials, but first testified
before Justice Morschauser in White
Plains in 1909 She said that Thaw,
using the names "Mr. Reid" or 'Mr.
Munroe," and pretending to be in
the theatrical business ,took,a room
at her house and had many girl Wis
itors She said she saw him beating
some of the girls on their bare flesh
with short riding whip.
Denied Whipping Stories.
In 1915. in the insanity hearing be-
fore Justice Hendrick, similar testi-
money was heard. Thaw, on the wit
ness stand, fared up and said to
Deputy Attorney General Cook:
You'd be afraid to say while I'm
sitting here that you believe those
stories. He denied that he ever
had rooms at Mrs. Merrilrs house and
that he had beaten girls.
After gaining his freedom Thawl
procured a divorce from Evelyn Mes
bittThaw, who then married her dane
ing partner, Jack Clifford. Thaw
has lived with his mother in Pitts
burgh, but has come to New York fire.
quently. At one time he announced
he was going into the real estate
business. Last fall he took the
stump against Almet F. jerks, who
was a candidate for Chief Justice of
the Court of Appeals. Thaw, said
that jerks, as Supreme Court JUS
tice, had given three unjust decisions
against him.
In April last Thaw announced that
he was going to start a suit to prove
that he was not the father of Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw's boy Pom Pom and
that therefore the boy was not en-
titled to share in the Tbaw estate