The evening world. Newspaper, August 19, 1913, Page 3

SER BVAWENG WORLD, TUBEDAY, AUGUST 19 * FIRST COMPLETE STORY OF THE PLOT TO R 'g’ ESCUE THAW Over. the chauffeur; Kugene Duffy, “the Mayor Flood, a chauffeur who owns his own Bvidence that the plot to release ‘Thew which was successfully carriea te & conclusion Sunday morning was formed long ago was obtained to~lay from an innocent witness. This ls Mra Moore, a visitor from out of town at fhe home of Roger Thompson, the ehauffeur of the Packard touring car which played such a prominent part in ‘the epoape of Thaw. ‘Thompson, a im living, ambitious Young fellow, resided with his mother, who is employed in an expert capacity in @ downtown department store, at No. 4 Hancock place in Harlem. Mra. ‘Thompson was not at home to-day when an Evening Worla reporter called. Mra. Moore, the visitor, was the so‘e occupant of the neat little apartment. VISITOR SAYS CHAUFFEUR WAS ON “BIG JOB.” “I don't know where Roger is,” eald Mrs. Moore, “but his mother is not worrled about him. He has not been home since Friday. Mra. Thompson has heard from him, she told me, but whether by telephone or letter I do not know. “About a month ago Roger told his mother that he would be absent from the city on a big Job at avout this time He expected that the Job would be prof- table to him. When he left on Friday old his mother he was going on the job he had spoken to her about.” Butier wan in town last night, but not ut his home, No, 36 West Twenty- meventh stree is reported to have Attended the “The McManus outing at College Point yesterday. Last night he wes in constant telephonic vommunica- tion with his wife, who ts a capable, intelligent young woman. At 9 o'clock Mrs, Butler and her flock of lttle chil- dren, carrying suitcases and bundles, left the Butler domicile and dropped out of sight. They met the husband and father somewhere and the whole family fe miesing to-day. A short time before they left Butler talked over the telephone with a friend. ‘The conversation had been arranged by Mra, Bute “I wasn't mixed up in this Thaw thing,” Butler declared. ‘Some of those @uys up around Dowling’s are trying to put me in bad.” “What's the use in trying to deny it? queried the friend. “I do deny it, just the same, Butler, “and I'm going to beat while. PLOT FOR THE ESCAPE AR- RANGED MONTHS AGO, The plot that worked out so smoothly and successfully on Sunday had been in existence for months, Somebody in the! background held the bankroll, and the Were many disputes between this my: terious person and the men who were to do the actual work. It is stated on good Quthority that $26,000 was fixed as the price and $10,000 was offered. A com- promise 19 believed to have been reached | between these figures. Gossip around the West Shore ferry house, at the foot of West Forty-second street, from which Flood and O'K: Operated taxi- cabs, has it that the price paid by some- body representing the Thaw family was close to $20,000. That there was @ plan on foot to lib- orate Thaw has long been a matter of tommon report in Longacre Square sa- joons frequented by chauffeurs, A icheme was perfected to kidnap Thaw At the Hotel Astor when he was in New York last spring as @ witness in the tase of John Nicholas Anhut, the law- ver, who Was sentenced to Sing Sing ‘or attempting to bribe Supt. John Rus- (ell of Matteawan Asylum, who was ater removed by Gov. Sulzer. Several lane were formed to get him out of t ylum, but something intervened ivery time to prevent their execution. The money used came from the Thaw fortune, All that remains to round out waid for a FULL STORY OF THAW PLOT; $20,000 REPORTED PAID 10 |reither afo THOSE WhO AIDED FLIGHT ) Under Plans Made Months Ago Ex-Assemblyman Butler Scouted Ahead of the Others to Look Details of the plot to liberate Harry Thaw from the Asylum for the Criminal Insane at Matteawan came to light to-iay as the result of imvestigations by Evening World reporters. It has been established, as ‘The Evening World announced exclusively yesterday—all day, in every @4ttion—that former Assemblyman Richard J. Butler engineered the plan and that he was assisted by “Educated Roger” Thompson, a Times, Square j roads, tae expose of the plot is to discover yae identity of the person who acted is the intermediary between the Thaw aillions and Butler and to find how n" supposedly under constant sur- eillance in the prison asylum, was kept o closely informed on the details that Ye was able to play his part in the es- Ground. of Ninth avenue,” a crony of Butle Michael O'Keefe, who is said to be Butlers brother-in-law, and Thomas car. cape as skilfully ae though he had had the benefit of several rehearsals. It was Butler, whose acquaintance in New York is large and whose activities have been varied, who first went to Matteawan and looked over the ground. It was either Butler or eome “fixer” under his direction who engineered whatever of complicity there was in- sld> the asylum and outsids the gates. Finally it was Butler who went frend John Collins «..d hired « big ez cylinder Packard to.ring car to be used ‘as the chief factor in the escape. John Collins has an office at No, 1491 B.vadway He ov three touring care! which he rents out to customers in Long Acre Squai The cars have been Stored in the International Garage at No. 252 “Vest Fc tieth street. Only two of them were there this morning. The other has been mi since last Fri- day. Sunday morning was selected for the escape because on Sunday diecipline is more or less relaxed in the Matteawan Asylum and Thaw was in the habit of in the yard alone on Sunday Also on Sunday there are many automobiles on the roads, tele- phone connection is crippled by the sus- pension of business and telegraph offices in mail cities and towns are closed. Butler arranged to use two cars in the escape plot—the touring car of his friend Collins, driven by “Educated Roger" a daring and skilful chauffeur and the taxicab of his friend, Thomas Flood. This latter car ts not really @ taxicab but @ converted landaulet of high power, speed and great efficiency. TAXI TRAILED ALONG FOR USE IN EMERGENCIES. The taxicad was used in the first stage of the getaway at the Thi touring car was waiting some distance down the road. Thaw jumped from the taxi to the touring car and the taxi trailed along behind to pick up the party in case of trouble to the big car. Duffy and O'Keefe were picked as emergency men, both being dependable in of trouble of any kind. Butler went to Matteawan in the Packard car, accompanied by the chauf- feur, “Educated Roger,” O'Keefe and Duffy on Friday and all four put up at the Holland Hotel in Beacon, the town that was formerly Fishkill Land- ing. They registered under their own names and took no pains to conceal their identity, indicatin, r Butler is is @ foxy person—that a legal indl- vidual had told him they were run. ning no risk of punishment. On Fri- day afternoon and Saturday Thompson e#wept through the country between Matteawan and the Connecticut line in his touring car learning the roada. Flood went up to Matteawan on Sat- urday in his taxicab and joined the rest of the party and registered under his own name, receiving hie final instruc- tons. He too went out and tried the The five men paid their bills at the Holland House la laturday night and dropped out of the sight of Beacon. KEPT CARS UNDER COVER TILL TIME FOR ACTION, They kept their cars under cover somewhere in the vicinity of the usy- lum until the time fixed for the escape on Sunday morning. How Thaw dodged out through tho! gate protected from view by a slowly moving milk wagon and reached the taxicab has already been told, T: of the automobiles from Matte: not been picked up as yet. Half a dozen hangers on about Long- acre Square are claiming that they were “in” on the Thaw escape and have been “thrown down.” One nm says he took his taxicab up to Beacon on Saturday and was sent on @ wild- Boose chase Sunday morning, Flood produced a taxicab driver's city license on Aug. 1, 1913, the day the new taxicab ordinance went into ef- fect, filing with his license his latest photograph, taken that same day, In reply to the stereotyped questions, Flood wrote that he lived at No, 468 West Forty-first street, where he had resided for three years. Previous to that, he said, he had lived for three years at No. 518 West Fortieth street. FLOOD CARRIED LICENSE BADGE FROM CITY, Flood's taxicab is given on the Neense as No. 65, and his State license, issued by the Secretary of State, as No 2,679, This number appears on the amall bronge button furnished a licensed driver by the State, Under the new law Flood was compelied also to wear @ license badge furnished by the city ‘This ig the four-inch equare Maitese Cross badge, and on it Flood’s city li- cense is numbered ‘649,"" Flood's last employment, bvefore bh began operating hie own car in the vicinity of Forty-second street, was that 8 chauffeug for Buras Brothers, coal ' { ! Shakespeare’s ‘‘Bibulousness’’ Didn’t Offeet His Intellectual Power, Nor Small Heads Make Voltaire and Byron “Half Wits’’— Arguments by Readers. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. “In comparing man and woman that morally man is quite corrupt. ~ Reed not say alas unless you like), woman's superiority would have man on the ru For though I am unaware of the exact nature of the personal pecullarl- tles which made Rossini undesirable as & fireside companion, I have met Mme. Chaminade. I am quite sure she tops the composer of “The Barber of 8 ville’ at every point save the point at dssue—intellectual power expressed through music, As for Shakespeare, we lack detatled information of his bibu- lous prociivities, as much as upon other Matters concerning him. BIBULOUS HABITS DON’T DIS- PROVE INTELLECTUAL POWER A certain portion of the public be- Neves that “there ain't any such ani- mal" and never was, that the Lord of Verulam, when he needed a little relax- ation from composition of Novum 01 anum or other serious Latin works, tooa a vacation and dashed off “Romeo and Juliet,” “Hamlet” or “Macbeth” in Ienglish. I'm not a Baconi I much pre- for to believe that Shakespeare ac- ‘nally wrote bis own plays, that he wrote most wonderfully and gloriously after » hard session at the Mermaid Tavern, which 2 in relation to Mterature you will find For instance, Shakespeare, though & wonderful writer, was morally deficient. His biographers state that he was intoxicated most of the time, Ros sini, though a wonderful composer. was said to possess objectlorable Personal habits. Can anything like that be said of Madame Chaminade, one the world’s greatest living com- posers?” So s woman reader undertakes to establish what she terms the “su- periority of woman to man in every respect save physically.” No one who reads her letter can fail to admire her courageous spirit, and there will be many who will perhaps find no incongruity in the application of the moral tape meas- ure to the mind. Yet, if moral ex- cellence were an indication of brain power, or if brain power carried with it the potentiality of moral ex- cellence, as alas, it does not (you then, indeed, this lone champion of trust had an all-night loense and Aleo I prefer to believe Mrs, Brown- ing and George Eliot were more sober and circumspect persons. No one has |ever said otherwise. Undoubtedly they | Put Shakespeare to shame at every point save the point at issue—intel- | lectual pow Quite as Ulogical as the contention that woman {s superior mentally be- cause Shakespeare got drunk {a the argument offered by @ man to establish greater mental power of his own sex, in tl at the so why didn’t they do Who has the larger rain, forehead, the stronger ‘aw? haughtily and wel but | you know the answer—‘*Man, of course." He cites Darwin as an instance of the triumph of masculine genius over ad- verse conditions, Since he admires Dar- win, let him read the chapter tn “The Descent of Man" which compares the | male with the female brain. I do not recall the words well enough | present day, | something? dealers, in thetr Thirty-elghth street coal yards, He had worked for them for four years and attached a certificate of character from his former employers. He had been driving lis own car for one year, he swore, The personal description of the driver, 8 given in his own handwriting, showed that he 1s five feet seven and a half inches tall, welghs 142 pounds, has blue eyes and brown hair. Roger Thompson, according to records in the Bureau of Licenses, lives at No, 4 Hancock p) He is thirty-three years old, five feet ten Inches tall, welghs 180 pounds and has blonde hair and blue ey ‘The cars of John Collins are not resis tered with the Bureau of Licenses as claims he rents them to “private cus: | tomers.” ADMITS HE RENTED HIS CAR TO BUTLER, John Collins, the owner of the dig Packard touring car used in the Thaw admitted to-day that he rented the car to his old friend Richard J. Bul ler, Here ts Collins's explanation t Thursday night “Dice came to me li 4 and said he wanted to rent my new ar—the finenst in the private hiring trade In the He wald he wanted to take the car on Friday to give his family an outing eountry, day, including Thompson. he car wan given an overhauling and equipped for a long trip, and on Friday morning Butler and Thompson rode away In tt, T haven't seen either of them since nor have IT seen my car, “Thompson called me on the long two or three days In the We agreed on terms of &0 4 the chauffeur, distance telephone Sunday night at Dowling’a cafe, Seveuth avenue an Forty third street. I wasn't there, but he gave @ message for me to a man named Fox. The message was that the car was all right I heard from him. “T am not worrled about That was the last the car Thompson tn a careful, ekilled man and | the car t# Insured, I don't think Thomp fon knew what he was going into when Cor ho left New York with nly Th to be used In takin the insane asylum,” Butler, Rower | IS WOMAN INFERIOR TO MAN? + + Copyright, Mi, by The Press Publishing Os, (The New York Evening World.) rals, Habits Nor Size of Hat Tenth Article of a Series. Lanaea Baan, to quote them, but Z remember that Darwin says that it has been estab- shed that the male orain is generally larger and heavier than the female, but whether in & proportion greater than cam be accounted for by the general differ ence in size between men and women has not been éetermined. ‘Tho weight and cise of the brain Rave 20 proves relation to power. If they had, Vi Byron would have been imstend of genivses. Goott's head was shaped potato. The heads of frequeatly abnormally to say that man has brain proves nothing. jor stronger jaw—well, yes, as yet we have to grant him the jer ji The letters of Evening World read- era follow: ’ WOMAN FAR SUPERIOR EXCEPT IN PHYSICAL STRENGTH. Di Personally I think epect except physically. je hi to the argument that had advantages that man has had, and it te only of recent years that wom- an has had any opportunity a to prove her intellectual ability, and for the short time she has had to establisn her worth, she has shown far better results than man has for and ‘As to gossiping, the men can hold their own very well when it comes to the point, and if the men object to the “bargain-hunting” of women why not give them @ suMicient al- lowance to buy otherwise? In comparing man and woman in relation to literature, you will find that morally man ts quite corrupt. For instance, Shakespeare, although & wonderful writer, was morally de- ficient. His biographers atate he was intoxicated most of the tim Cen this be sald of any of our emt- nent women, such as Mre, Browning and George Eliot? As to music, there ts the same condition, For example, Rosaint, though a wonderful composer, was sand to possess objectionanie habits, Can anything like this be said of Madame Chaminade, one of the Greatest women composera? I hope I have proved my slde of the argument sufficiently to convince any doubtful of woman's superiority. MRS, RL WOMEN NEVER GO ALONE; NEED | GUIDANCE AND HEL Dear Madam: Man alwaye was and always will be the superior human being from a mental and intellectual etundpoint, all thie twaddie about Woman being a man's equal not- withstending. Study history, What fs bred in the bone will show tn the flesh. Who were who are the greatest writers, cornposers, artists, inventors and philosophers, men or ? Men exclusively, and to way n has never had the time ity to develop and cultl+ | vate herself on account of her duties as a mothor, &c., ts almply Bosh, There have been spiusters in the days gone by Just as there are at | oF opportis | the present day, wo why didn't they | do something? Haven't men had to struggle and bear misfortune and halk opposition? Dlan't th id Darwin consider two hours a day a good day's work? Didn't Beethoven wuccecg in epite of bis deafness or WRITER, WAS THe MAHER PORENEAD THE CYROWaeR dawt maw or covatal Decides the Question of Mental Capacity|wnitmar's (UTORICATE * Milton in spite of his blindness, as well as @ long list of others? Who write, and read, for that matter, th weightier books? True, there female poets and painters and writers, but how do they compare with men both in numbers and quality of achievement? ‘The fact is, ever since the world Ddegan, woman was intended to create and man to protect, and just as Nature has endowed her with eu- Perior qualities of mind and heart in conneotion with her miasion on earth, eo has man been given a superior strength of mind and iauscle in con- nection with his purpose in life. Mental application depends funda- mentally upon three attributes, vis., concentration, perseverance and will Dower, and man has always shown @ greater degree of intensity in all three of these departments than has ‘woman. Who has the lar, bi the higher forehead, the stronger jaw? Man, of course. Woman, on fickle and super- be coddied. She has neither the will nor the mental capacity to dominate, She relies too much on her “intuitions” where man uses his head and wins. A woman's prerogative “Just because” will suffice whe: plain, the man must ex- Woman can never “go it * ghe needs guidance and ase tance even to buying a hat. Ww. H. a, Dear Madam: Most, if not all, of inventions and systems were ned to cheat nature and offset physical labor and exertion; whereas, lovely woman has adhered to her high natural ideals of motherhood and matrimony. Who suggested triat marriages and claimed marriage @ huge failure? Woman? Never! Every woman aspires to matrimony. Has any married man ever done a great thing for the good of the peo- ple? It is an oft noted fact that nearly all great thinkers and in- ventors were and are single men, I firmly belleve that if any woman would remain single and devote her entire efforts to one chosen task, she would accomplish it as com- pletely and effectively as any man could! J. 3. @, _— Canadian Cadets on Stranded Boat. HALIFAX, Aug. 19—The Diana, « galling vessel belonging the Cana. dian naval deparuinent, !8 ashore on | Betty's Island, near Hubbard's Cove, | Bhe haa on board a numver of cadets | and had been cruising along the coast, ‘The steamer Canadas has gone to bring | the cadets to t pay Powers to Halt March of Tarks, VIENNA, Austria, Aug, 19 ernmenta of Europe, it here to-day, are preparing representations to Turkey further advance of her t The gov wcame known PORT OF NEW YORK, ATURIV ED, pmah wy dbakaan tite | Hin iee tein {PLOTTERS WHO AIDED THAW ARE KEEPING UNDER COVER: trict-Attorney of Office at Request of Dis- Dutchess County Makes Special Efforts to Find Butler and Chauffeur. At the request of Assistant District-Attorney Koenig, who called at Police Headquarters this morning, Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty sent out detectives to search for and arrest Richard J. Butler and Roger Thompson, the chauffeur, both of whom are known personally or by sight to nearly all of the Central Office men. The charge against them is com spiring with Harry Thaw and aiding him to escape from Matteawan Asy- lum. Mr. Koenig asked the active ald of the police at the solicitation of Dis- trict-Attorney Conger of Dutchess County, who fe anxious to get hold of Butler and Thompson, whom he regards as the ringleaders of the plot, in order to learn from them, if possible, who employed them. Mr. Koenig also asked that Michael O’Keefe, Eugene Duffy and Thomas Flood be are rested, but Butler and Thompson are the persons wanted most particularly, POLICE HELD BACK AT THE START. ‘While a general police alarm was sent out yesterday afternoon calling for the arrest of all five of the accused men, no attempt appears to have been made to arrest Butler. There are men at Headquarters who should have been able to go out and pick him & aubway train. It was not until the District-Attorney’se office made a direct request that the Detective Bureau got busy, Butler has had plenty of time to get away. last night as easily as catching Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, Harry Thaw’s mother, accompanied by her daughter, Mra. George L. Carnegie, and a woman travolling companion, left New York over the Pennsylvania Railroad at 9.25 o'clock this morning from the Thaw country home, Elmhurst, at Cresson, Pa. Dr. Britton D. Evans, medical superintendent of the New Jersey State Insane Asylum at Morris Plains, saw Mrs. Thaw before she started, but sald he had not de cided to go to Cresson. In case Harry Thaw should show up there, Dr, Evans will hasten to act as medicolegal adviser of the family in any legal proceedings that may come up. TRIED TO SERVE SUMMONS ON MRS. THAW. Just as she was stepping into her car at the hote) door a private de- tectivé, H. M. Diamond of No. 8 Nassau street, attempted to serve a sum- mons on Mrs. Thaw in the suit of Attorney John B. Gleason, who is seck- ing to obtain $63,000 counsel fees for his services in the last attempt Thaw ‘ade to win his freedom in the courts. Mrs. Thaw brushed the paper pore but ft fell at her feet and Diamond declared she had been legally served. The summons ie returnable before Judge Holt in the United Btates District Court in twenty days. GS PUT BLANE OF RENO TAP ON VARRNGTON GI Testifies White Slave Charge Could Not Have Been Made but for Her Ac BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19.~When the trial of Maury I. Diggs, charged with Violation of the Mann white slave act, was resumed, it was generally believed that taking of testimony would be con- Cluded before the afternoon adjourn- ment, and that the case probably would © to the jury some time to-morrow, Di took the witness stand in hie behalf shortly after the proceedings . Many women were in court, Mra, Diggs was waiting to testify after her husband has told his story. Diggs was extremely voluble in his tentimony. He wanted to leave Sact: mento alone, he testified, but Miss War- rington insisted on accompanying him. “You're not going away to leave me, are you?’ he amerted she exclaimed. It was Miss Warrington, too, Diggs asserted, who persuaded Miss Norris to Join the party, when she demurred, “Did Mies Warrington once call Camt- nett! a ‘piker'?’ asked Attorney Deviin, “because he refused to go to Ban Frén- cisco, saying he needed the money it would cost 40 pay his wife's hospital bille?” ‘Yes, she mid that," replied Diggs. “And she added: ‘We have framed it all up and you must go.'" Responding to another query, Diggs stated that Caminett! told him Mra, Carminett! had been before the Juvenile Court to have the quartet prosecuted and their affairs broken up. 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