The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-11
HARRY K. THAW
CUT HIS THROAT
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day.
Thaw repeatedly had been declared
insane by some Of the nations fore
most alienists. It had been predicted
time after time following his release
from state custody that eventually he
would kill either himself OF some one
| else.
| His former wife, now Mrs. Jack
Clifford, now recovering from an op
Grafton, told reporters today she feared
he would commit some act Of violence
and declared he should be restrained
Immediately. At detective headquar
| tiers it was stated that a strong guard
will be kept over Thaw and If he
should recover, steps will be taken
imm ediately for his return to New
York.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-The theory
that Harry Thaw will give himself
up or be arrested in Pittsburgh, was
virtually abandoned by authorities
here today and preparations were
made to run him down wherever his
trail may lead. The Pittsburgher's
spectacular flight from Matteawan to
Canada with posses in trains, auto
mobiles and on foot at his heels,
may again be staged at any moment
. in any part of the country.
Agents of the district attorneys
office here are on the watch for the
slayer of Stanford White and the
alleged fiagallant of Fred Gump,
Kansas City youth.
| Adjudged sane and freed after a
long and bitter fight from the OFF
eial net that had bound him ever
since tie night he shot White 10
death, Thaw again is fugitive. by
his own actions. He faces the pros
pect of fighting his return to Mattea-
wan as an insane patient when he is
caught.
| The justice who may sit in the
case, according to Gregory, the
alienist who declared Thaw insane at
! the first trial, will have authority to
order another insanity trial. Authorl-
ties have no idea where Thaw IS.
He is variously reported in Pitts
burgh, on his way to surrender to
the authorities here, and having been
| in several Pennsylvania cities. He
is said to have been in New York
the day before he was indicted for
kidnapping young Gump; and he was
reported in Philadelphia Monday and
, not consider it improbable that Thaw
maybe Canada or to some port over
seas.
Cumberland Isle, Georgia. where
Thaw has a sister, Fernandina, Fla.
where he has other relatives. and
Detroit, from where he might slip
into Canada, are being watched
o1N al Nv icfr lot
agents. Swan also has plastered the
country with warning kilograms to
be on the watch for Thaw and has
sent copies of the indictment against
him to Pittsburgh, Stroudsburg, Pa.
and Detroit.
Warning that 'Thaw may commit
another homicide" was issued to the
public today by Evelyn Nesbit, for
mer wife Of Harry Thaw. now Mrs.
Jack Clifford.
He is a dangerous man to be ut
large" said Evelyn, and he should
be confined at once for the safety
of the public. The late DR.. Austin
Flint said to me:
"'Thaw's disease will again mani
fest itself. He will first fiagallate a
woman and boy, then finally will Kill
somebody
Mrs Clifford said she was sorry
for Mr.. Thaw."
Among the letters found on Oliver
Brewer, arrested and alleged to be
an employee Of Thaw's, was a copy
of a letter believed to have been nd
dressed to Thaw by Gump or another
of the boys in the list. 1t incorpor-
;.tcS the idea of some of the anclcn!s
VINO delightel in complete dubjugd-
ton Of one human being to another
through physic II punishT' mt IL who
found satisfaction in the sense o!
complete mastery.
Beginning, My dear master" the
letter expresses the writer's desire to
tell how l feel when | am getting
a whipping"
Brewer Indicted
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE grand
jury this afternoon handed down an
indictment charging Oliver Brewer
with conspiracy in connection with
the kidnapping and assault charges
against Harry K. Thaw
Il would not say that I would be
surprised if Harry Thaw walked in
and surrendered late this afternoon