The New York herald., 1921-04-22
HAYWOOD ESCAPES
PRISON BY FLIGHT
TOSOVET RUSSIA
/. w. w. Leader Left New
York for Stockholm, Is Of
ficial Admission.
OTHERS ALSO VANISH
Attorney for Agitator Notifies
Officials That Client Has
Quit Country.

CHICAGO, April 21.-"Big Bill" Hay
wood. convicted 7. w. w. leader, who
was to have begun a sentence OF twen-
ty years in Fort Leavenworth Fed
eral Prison to-day. has skipped away
from American authorities and is at
present in Moscow, according to in
formation received by United States
Attorney Charles f. Clyne to-day.
Haywood went on the steamship
Oscar IT,, according to Mr. Clynes
information. and landed in Riga. 1t Is
thought that others Of the sixty |. w.
w. who were convicted with Haywood
! escaped.
Haywood was last heard of in New
York on March 80, when his attorney,
Otto Christensen, communicated with
him at the Civil Liberty Society," g
quarters there. When the Supreme
Court upheld the l. w. WIS con-
viction a few days ago he attempted
to communicate with him again with
out success.
Haywood was supposed to enter
| Leavenworth to-day, and as soon as Mr..
| Clyne received the information that the
leader had slipped away to Russia he
caused check to be made at Leaven-
worth. Haywood was not found. The
bureau of investigation was notified and
began search over the entire country
10 locate him. At the same time the
passport bureau records we're checked
to see IL Haywood had obtained a pass
1 port under his own or forged name
and American representatives In Europe
we're wirelessed to obtain information
concerning the /. W. w. leader.
LAWYER Tells of Flight.
Otto Christensen was first to notify
| the District Attorney that his client was
| in Europe.
ut was I who first notified District
Attorney Clyne that I had received ru-
mors that Haywood had departed for
Riga" said Christensen. Il did this as
duty felt owed to Haywood's bonds
men, for II he has left the country they
should be apprised of the fact
Haywood is said to have arrived at
Riga on April 16. after stopover at
Stockholm In i. w. w. circles II was
earned that he went to Moscow to at
tend a meeting OF the Trade Union In
ternationale. to which he is one OF tne
seven American delegates.
William u. Haywood has record OF
more than twenty years association
with acts of crime, chiefly in the name
of Tabor" He was secretary ana
treasurer OF the /. w. w. and was
branded as the chief plotter and director
of that organizations opposition 10 tne
war. It is alleged that ne concelvee
most. IL not all, OF the plots designed
TO hamper the army and navy. and per-
ronally or through aids carried many
70 completion. In other words. ne was
commander In chief Of the biggest OF all
antt-war conspiracies and was recognized
as such by 165 others prominent IN tne
I w. w. plots, who were indicted IN
Chicago in October. 1917.
uavwood,s Record Of Crime.
Havwood's record shows he was tried
once for his life and that he has Deen
a arrested and convicted many times.
That he escaped the gallows was emery
due, in the judgment OF detached oD-
servers Of the trial. TO simple human
inability on the part OF the jury 70 pc
llcNe one man cOulu nave piOSe~N
series OF fiendish crimes az was Imputed
ID Haywood by Harry Orchard. the SELF
confessed principal in the particular
! murder for which Haywood and otners
Of the officials of the Western Federa-
ton OF Miners had been brought into tne
dock.
For about ten years Haywood was
leading figure in the Western Fcdera-
ton OF Miners. an organization tne
career OF which was marked by tran
Of blood" But after his acquittal OF
assassination of ex-Gov. Steunenoerg OF
Idaho the Western Federation dropped
him off it's payroll Five years later the
Socialist party formally expelled him on
a, referendum vote by more than two 70
one He has been almost incessantly az
war ever since with the type OF trade
unionist represented BY Samuel COM
pers. head OF tho American Federation
OF Labor.
District Attorney Clyne left tonight
for New York TO take personal charge
of the Investigation ordered. IL Is
through that port Haywood left the
country and II Is believed he was ac-
companied by many Of the others Of his