Bisbee daily review., 1917-01-10
Harry K. Thaw, Released from Criminal Insane Asylum in 1915, Indicted for Kidnap- ping and Assault.
PITTSBURCER NOT
 FOUND BY POLICE
Kansas City Youth, 19 Years Old, Complaining Witness. Frank Walsh Is Attorney for the Boy.
(By Review Leased Wire)

NEW YORK. Jan. 9.-Harry K
 Thaw. who was legally released fifteen ,. months ago from an asylum for the insane. where he was sent after he
 killed Stanford White, was today in-
 dicted here charged with Kidnapping Fred Gump. Jr., of Kansas City, Mo.
 a youth of 19 years. and assaulting
 him with a whip. With him was in-
 dicted on the kidnapping charge
 man described as George F. O'Byrnes
 and supposed to have been employed
 by Thaw as body guard. Word was
 received that O'Byrnes had been ar
 rested in Philadelphia and detectives were looking for Thaw there tonight.
 The complaint was placed against
 Thaw with District Attorney Swann ! by Frank F. Walsh. former chairman
 of the United States Industrial Rela- tions Commission, appearing now as | Gumps counsel. alleges that Thaw en-
 ticed the youth to his rooms at hotel
 here Christmas night and there beat him with whips three different times
 until he bled and became almost un- conscious.
 Testimony describing the whipping of young girls by Thaw made up some of the most sensational chapters in the numerous court actions on the questions of Thaw's sanity after his acQuital for the murder of White on the grounds of insanity and his com- mittment to the Matteawan state hos pital for the criminal insane. Alien ists for the state testified that whip ping was a mania with Thaw. After several years litigation at cost of several hundred thousand dollars to New York and to Thaw and in which bitter partisanship was engaged as to whether he was justly or unjustly kept in Matteawan. he was declared sane by a jury in habeas corpus proceed ings in the latter part of 1915 and re- leased by court order.
 According to the information laid before the district attorney it was to- ward the end of 1915 that Thaw first met and became interested in Gump. He had gone to California after his re- lease here to attend the Panama Paci- fic Exposition at San Francisco and later went to the Southern part of the state, spending some time at Long Beach. where he met Gump at an ice cream parlor.
 Gump's mother and his father. Fred Gump, who is said to be a manufac- turer of leather trunks in Kansas City. were with the boy at Long Beach and made no objection to their sons acquaintanceship with Thaw. the dis trict attorney was informed. apparent ly sharing popular opinion that he had been vindicated."
 After Thaw left California he con tinued to correspond with Gump. ac- cording to MT. Walsh. These letters, Walsh said. warned the boy not to show them to anyone. but he let his mother read them and she answered them for him. The exchange of let ters continued through 1916, Thaw ex- pressing a great interest in the boys future and a wish to educate him abroad. Proffers of money by Thaw were refused. the boy at least came on to New York and went to Thsw's hotel. where it is alleged the assault took place.
 Thaw, who is a member of a wealthy family, shot and killed Stan ford White, a noted architect, in the midst of a crowd at Madison Square Roof Garden in June. 1906. He was melted to act. he said. by the confes- sion of his wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, l former chorus girl. made to him of her treatment by White previous to her marriage to Thaw.
 Two trials for murder followed. the second of which resulted in the ac- luittal of Thaw on the grounds of in- sanity. After his commitment to the asylum. he began a series of attempts 10 obtain his liberty through habeas corpus proceedings in which he sought to have himself declared sane. Fail
 Concluded on Page Seven)