PAGE EIGHT THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1913. HARRY THAW ' ASYLUM Al Slayer In Sensational Dash For Liberty. ALLEGE CONSPIRACY After Felling Guard Thaw Jumps In Waiting Auto. ONE ATTENDANT IS ARRESTED Thrilling Chase by Armed Posse In Commandeered Motorcars, but Fugi tive Is Not Overtaken Said to Be Immune From Extradition In Con necticut. Matteawan, N. V., Aug. IS. narry Kendall Thaw escaped yesterday fvom the Mutteawun State Asylum For the Criminal Insane- In an automobile, which carried him at n speed of eighty miles an hour to the Connecticut state line, where ho Is Immune from nrrest Hurling Howard I'arnum, an asylum guard, aside when Barnum opened a gate to admit a milkman. Thaw ran to a waiting automobile, leaied in and was driven alongside a six cylinder Packard machine a quarter of a mile down the road, where he leaped Into the speedier car and got away. Pressing into service the fastest au tomobiles procurable hi the town, armed guards and attendants gave chase, but the best speed they could make was sixty miles an hour. They followed, hoping that a blow out or a wreck might halt Thaw. The big Packard was last seen nt .Storm vllle, N. Y" fourteen miles from the asylum, where a constable reported it went through the village like a pro jectile from a gun. Say Escape Was Result of Plot. Asserting that the cseano n-n tip IifMTTIS L CAPPtW?M HEEP , ESCAP MATTEAWAN HARRY THAW. Slayer of Stanford White, Who Escaped From Asylum. 3 by American Press Association cloveiCV'rnelit of a well" Ifiid plot in which relatives of Tlmy were the chief conspirators and that Several of the guards and attendants of the Insti tution were accessories, Dr. Raymond Francis Charles Kleb, the new asylum superintendent, ordered the arrest of ISarnum and an Investigation. DTf ' Klelf receded" information a rew hours after the escape which induced him to believe, ho said, that the ma chine was carrying Thaw to a seaport town in Connecticut and that a yacht is waiting off shore there to tako him away. Once over the state line and into Connecticut Thaw Is Immune from arrest so far as the Stanford White murder is concerned. Should the au thorities arrest him there on some pro text he could not bo extradited. Legal experts assort that there is no clause In the extradition law which is appli :ab!o to the Thaw case. Six Men Involved. Evidence that, six men were involv ed in the plot to liberate Thaw was made by the discdvory thot four of them have been stopping at the Hol land hotel here since Friday night. wind that a fifth, said to bo the chauf feur of the fast Packard "automobile, stayed over Saturday night. The sixth was the operator of the landaulet, the smaller car. After Thaw abandoned the landaulet for the big and Bpeedy Packard, the former followed, evidently for the pur pose of blocking any machine that might follow nnd to pick up Thaw and his party in the event of a wreck. Car Waited Long For Thaw. Thirty minutes before Thaw hurled Barnum aside tho landaulet drew up outside of. the gate and awaited the coming of the prisoner. The engine was kept running all the while. The. machine contained two men beside the chauffeur. Thaw had but to run flf toen feet to get into it once ho was through the gate. "There is no doubt in my mind that employees of this Institution are in volved In this plot," said Dr. Kleb. "It was executed with amazing ra pidity and smoothness. There are many circumstances involved which make me certain beyond even the shadow of a doubt that Thaw received assistance from the Inside as well as the outside. The guilt, I am certain, will bo fastened on a few men. I do not know who the outsiders are, but I piust assume they are relatives of Thaw. The state will take steps to expose and prosecute them." A bell and time punch in the ollice of the asylum shows that Thaw made his escape at 7:45 o'clock. Every time the gate through which he ran to the machine is opened 0 bell in the office rings and the hour and minute Is punched on a card. On Way to Chapel Exercises. Thaw, who was known in the prison as No. 3011, arose yesterday at the niinute of C o'clock, lie had breakfast thirty minutes later. Then, with six Honesdale, Pa. AUG. 21 ST . T. Ellis Judge Ben . RENO B. WELBOURN In Wonderful Science Demonstration FRANK DIXON PAUL M. PEARSON FLORENTINE CONCERT BAND MISS MELICENT MELROSE, SOPRANO THE TYROLEAN ALPINE YODLERS THE BRODBECK-SUCH CONCERT COMPANY THE COMMONWEALTH MALE QUARTET THE NATIONAL OPERA COMPANY THE DIETRICS Music and Magic WILLIAM STERLING BATTIS Dickens Impersonations ROSANI, PRINCE OF JUGGLERS WORTH-WHILE MOTION PICTURES Two Reels Each Night 31 EVENTS $2 IF YOU BUY A SEASON TICKET teen other patients, he went into what Is known' ns the north court. Thaw and the others exercise there Sundays before going to the chapel service. Barnum was on duty at the gates, there are three ofi these. All are fitted by the one key. which was in the pos session of llarnum. George Mulhall was on duty in the ynrd with Barnum. He was some distance away from the gate when Barnum opened it. From the- moment lie entered the courtyard Thaw spent most of his time near the cate through which he escaped, but, nccordlng to all accounts, he was not at any time in communica tion with the men who were waiting with the automolJIe outside. Every morning shortly before 8 o'clock men who supply tho institution with milk drive through tho gate through which Thaw escaped. At 7:45 yesterday one signaled that ho wished to get in. Thaw at that time was close to Barnum. Barnum, after inserting the key, swung the big door open. Thaw acted quickly. Seizing the keeper, he hurled him to one side and rushed to the waiting automobile. Cannot Be Extradited. Assistant District Attorney Frank Moss said yesterday that Thaw had boon acquitted of the erlmo of murder on .the ground of Insanity and that therefore there was no charge remain ing against ljlm. "He cannot bo extradited as far as 1 can see, said Mr. Moss. lie was placed in Matteawan because his men tal condition made him a public dan ger. And you cannot extradite because of a disease a man has. This case was an ncqulttal, and I know of no exam ple of extradition in such a case where no new crime has been committed. I have never heard, either, of the extra dition of n criminally insane Krson." Assistant District Attorney Embree gave it as his own belief that Thaw had been committed to .Matteawan trending his sanity and that If' ho re covered trom insanity he would be brought buck to the court In which he was tried for the final disposition of his case. He said ho had been ncqnlt tcd of the charge of murder, but that ho had not been dismissed, nnd for that reason was not so sure but that Th -r tnlcht be ovtradltablo i N THE ORPHANS' COURT OF WAYNE COUNTY. Estate of Lawrence Shermer. In the matter of the application for the granting of letters of admin istration upon the estate of Law rence Shermer, late of Texas town ship, Wayno county, Pennsylvania, an absentee, who by reason of his absence and being unheard from for thirty years last past is supposed to - AUG. 27TH EL Lindsey E. Turner ig Chautauqua Stove Sale We will sell a car load of Dockash ranges this week, at very special prices. Not shop worn goods but nicejtresh ranges rigfit from the Dockash factory, guaranteed by the makers and ourselves. No. 9 Range with Reservior and Shelf $35. No. 8 Range with Reservoir and Shelf $32. No. 9 Range with Shelf only $31. No. 8 Range with Shelf only $28. A saving from $7.00 to $10.00 on each stove Come in and see them Everything for the farm. be dead. Certified to this Court by the Register of Wills of Wayne coun ty. At a session of the said Court held on the 11th day of August A. D. 1913, upon hearing the evidence of fered in the premises, the Court de creed (Inter alia) that the legal presumption of the death of tho said Lawrence Shermer was made out and established; that notice of the proceedings and decree be forthwith inserted for two successive weeks in The Citizen and Wayne Independent, two newspapers published in Wayne county, requiring the said Lawrence Shermer, if alive, or any other per son for him, to produce to the Court within twelve weeks from tho date of its last insertion satisfactory evi dence of his continuance in life; and that i within tho said period of ROSANI ft. Honesdale, Pa. twelve weeks such evidence be not forthcoming, administration o his estate be granted to the person en titled thereto Certified from the Record. W T UAUVfO Plorlr ,1. VJ . JJiill.liJ.J. UlCIl (L. S.) To the above named Lawrence Shermer, (If still continuing in life). You are required to produce the evi dence specified in the foregoing order within twelve weeks from the 25th day of August A. D. 1013 and de fault thereof administration upon your estate will be granted in con formity with the statute In such case made and provided. KIMBLE & HANLAN, Attorneys for Applicant. CC & C7. The Citizen has the news. PORTREL1I
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