The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-10
THAW GIVES UP?
His Attorney Says He Is on His
Way to New York.
Hunt "Brain Storm" Million
aire in Many Cities.
DESCRIBE WHIPPING OF BOY
Attorney Frank Walsh Gives
Weird Story of Lashing.
Gump Forced to Sign Statement
He Liked Beating.

Pittsburgh, Pa Jan. 10.-Harry
Kendall Thaw is now on his way to
New York and will probably surren-
der to the authorities of the empire
state for trial on an indictment charg-
ing that he kidnapped and brutally
whipped Frederick Gump, Kansas
City youth, at the McAlpin hotel IN
that city.
That was the declaration shortly
after noon by stephen Stone, ThaW's
attorney.
''Thaw is now on his way to New
York to answer the charges, the
lawyer said.
Shortly afterward the Thaw family,
thru Stone, issued a statement in
which they asked the public of Pitts
burgh and the country at large to
withhold judgment until the case has
developed further.
Police of Many Cities in Search.
New York Jan. 10.-With the po-
lice of many cities searching for
Harry X Thaw, wanted here to an
swer to an indictment charging him
with assaulting and kidnapping Fred
erick Gump, Jr., of Kansas City, Mo,
it developed today that the man whom
the police of Philadelphia have ar
rested is not George F. O'Byrnes,
Thaw's body guard, alleged to nave
been involved in the enticing of Gump
to New York last Christmas.
Frank P. Walsh, counsel for the
Gump family, consulted the district
attorney upon his return here today
/ from Philadelphia. He informed the
| prosecutor that the man in custody in
| that city is oliver Brewer of Utica,
| n. Y. Brewer aided Thaw in Utica
last October when Thaw conducted
| political campaign there against su-
preme court justice who had denied
the man who killed Stanford White a
| writ of habeas corpus during ThaW
| legal fight to obtain his release from
| the Matteawan state hospital for the
that he dashed Gump with whip on
! three occasions during Christmas
night in Thaw's rooms in New York
| hotel
Brewer is held in Philadelphia on a
! technical charge
Signed Statement About Whipping.
| 1t was explained that Brewer was at
/ the hotel where Thaw stopped in Phil
/ adelphia last week, and that Thaw
| left his papers in Brewers care, not
| believing the man would be queS-
! toned if publicity was given to any
story Gump might tell the police. This
| accounted for the belief that Brewer
was O'Byrnes when Brewer was To-
Gated with Thaw's papers in his pos
session.
A detective from District Attorney
SWANS office, returning today from
! drought Will MN d
number of papers found in Oliver
| Brewers pockets. Brewer was arrest
ed yesterday by the detective, who be-
| lieved him to be George O'Byrnes,
| who was wanted in connection with
the case. One of the papers is said to
be a statement signed by young Gump
in which he said he deserved the
whippings Thaw gave him and that he
| liked them. Thaw is said to have
forced Gump to sign the paper.
Other papers said to have an impor-
| tant bearing on the case were brought
/ back, but were not made public.
With the indictment and search for
| Thaw on charges of kidnapping and
| whipping Frederick Gump, 19-year-old
| boy, all the testimony introduced in
his murder trials in an effort to prove
| him insane, was recalled. Evelyn Mes
| bit, divorced wife of Thaw, once told
| of his throwing Scalding water upon a
| bell boy in a hotel. Another witness
| told of his beating girls with a jeweled
whip
william Travers Jerome, long
| known as Thaw's Nemesis refused
| to comment on the charge brought
against Thaw. other than to remark
that, 1T confirmed his Judgment of
| Whites slayer being insane.
Frank P Walsh, former head of the
government Industrial relations COM
mittee who placed the charges
against Thaw before District Attorney
Swami here was in Philadelphia today
with the Gump boy. Walsh told
Swami young Gump was lured east
from Long Beach, Cal, by Thaw on