The Mena weekly star., 1917-01-18
HARRY THAW AGAIN
 IN THE L|MELIGHT
Degenerate Youth of Wealth, and Slayer of Stanford White Accused of Kidnapping and Then Whip
 ping Youth.

New York, Jan, 9,-Harry K Thaw, who was released i5 months ago from Mattewan asylum for the in sane, where he was sent after he killed Stanford White was indicted here today charged with Kidnapping Fred Gump, Jr.. Of Kansas City, aged Ho, and assaulting him with a whip.
 SN'ilh him was indicted a man de- sscribed as George F. O'Byrnes and supposed to have been employed by Jhaw as n bodyguard 0'Byrnes is said 10 have been arrested in Phil- .adelphia rhaw has not been ar mested
 The complaint, which was made by Frank r. Walsh, former chair anan of the United States Industrial Reiaions Commission. now Gumps attorney. alleges that Thaw entieed fthe yonth to his room here Christ mas night and beat him with two whips three different times, until he loled and became almost unconscious.
 Mania for Whipping.
 Testimony describing the whip ping of young girls ny Thaw made up some of the most sensational chapters in the numerous court ae- tions on the question of Thaw's san ity after his acquittal of the mur- der of white on the grounds of in sanity, and his commitment to the Mattewan State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. Alienists testified that whipping was mania with Thaw.
 It is said that it was toward the end of 1915 that Thaw first met and became interested in Gump. He had gone to California to attend the ex- position at San Francisco and later went to Long Beach. where he met Gump.
 Parents Approved Friendship.
 Gumps mother and his father. Fred Gump, who is a manufacturer of leather trunks in Kansas City, were with the boy at Long Beach and made no objection to their sons acquaintance with Thaw, il is said, apparently sharing popular opinion that he had been yindicated'
 After Thaw left California he con- tinued to correspond with Gump. These letters, Walsh said warned She boy not to show them to anyone, out he let his mother read them and she answered them for him. The exchange of letter continued thru 89i6. Thaw expressing a great in- terest in the boys future and a wish 3n nav for his education abroad AItho proffers of money were re- fused, the boy at last came on to New York and went Go Thaw's ho- tel, where il is alleged the assault Book place.
 The Now Famous Thaw Case.
 Thaw killed Stanford White, a noted architect, in the midst of a crowd at Madison Square Garden in June, 1906. He was melted to the act, he said, by the confession of his wife, Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl, If her treatment by White previous to her marriage to Thaw.
 Two trials for murder followed, she second of which resulted in the acquittal of Thaw on the grounds of @nsanity After his commitment t0I Khe asylum he began a series of at xeTnpts to obtain his liberty thru habeas corpus proceedings, in which he sought to have himself declared sane Failing in this. he escaped from the asylum and fled by auto mobile and train to Canada, where he was arrested and finally deported Ento New Hampshire by the Canad- Sau authorities He resisted extra Siition from New Hampshire to this state but was finally brought back 10 be released later.