The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-21
.GENTRYS STATEMENT.
He Expected to Find q Rival and
Prepared Himself.
MADGE DRYSDALE'S MURDERER.
Ills Condition Not Regarded MS Scri.
ous-says IIo Was Insancly Jealous.
Wcro Engaged to DO Married-Was
intoxicated When Ho Committed
the Crlmo-Borrowod tho Revolver
In Boston.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20.-James B,
Gentry, the murderer Of Margaret Win.
frod Drysdalo, or Madgo Yorke, who
was picked up unconscious this morn
ing by policeman, 10 resting easy in
tho receiving department OF tho Ger.
man Hospital. The physician in
charge says that Gentry is in no imme.
diatc danger Of dying. and the chances
arc that he will recover. His exhausted
condition when found last night, the
physicians say, was caused by the lack
OF food aud not by his aeli.in1icted
wounds.
When Gontry was admitted 10 the
hospital at 1915 last night ho was In
an apparently critical condition. but
after the physicians had made Il thor
ough examination it was found that
tho three wounds which he stated had
been made by his peukniie, in an at
tempt to commit suicide. were but su-
per6cisl. and instead OF having three
ribs fractured, as at first stated, but one
is broken. Tho fracture OF the skull 10
also ompara!ively slight.
Magistrate Milligan went to tho Ger
man hospital this morning and took
Gcntry's formal statement Miss Ida
Clarke was the chief witness aud ut the
conclusion of the hearing, Gentry was
held to await the action OF the coroner.
Magistrate Milligan this afternoon
made public the statement OF Gentry,
made q. the German hospital this morn.
ing.
He said: ~ was insanely Jealous. l
have known Madge Drysdale since Au-
gust, 1893. We became friendly. and
were engaged to be married, and she
wore my ring on her finger. She also
bought me a ring which she paid one
hundred and something for. was to
have met her in New York on Sunday.
Her letters had grown cold, and | had
wired her number OF times to let mo
know the cause OF lthe sudden change,
which was natural, me thinking as
much OF her as Ibid. Her telegram said:
12:03. leave here at ten.' l had Jour.
neyed all the way from Boston, and was
very sleepy when got to New York,
and did not get there until 1882. I did
not SEQ anything Of her on the 12:43
boat. l could not do anything, as was
a complete wreck, and went to her
fathers house and asked II he had heard
anything Of her coming TO town. He
said no, and that had better 20 down
again. as there We're come more trains,
and | might meet her. went down
again. and not seeing her bought
round trip ticket for Philadelohia.
"In the meantime had been drink
ing for being disappointed. On nv ar
rival in Philadelphia, l went to the
Irving House and then to Dietrich's,
whero l heard that she was mex, door.
l went into Zeisse's and mot Mr. Zeisse
and asked where Miss Yorke's room
was. ! had pistol in my pocket
which I had borrowed from a man
named Backet in our company. ! said /
in my mind 4 may havs to shoot some
Romeo in the foot fully expected to
find man in her room-a little blonde
fellow. / went upstairs and walked
into the room and whom l saw her
was very much delighted. l said:
We'll, darling, l have come l had
lived on beef tea and clam broth for
week previous and was completely up
set. said: Are you glad to see meT
She seemed awiully disappointed at
my appearance. She said. oh, myl
what are you doing here? l said,
Darling, won't you kiss me?' She
would not kiss me. These seemed to
be hor last words and the result fol-
lowed. I was insanely jealous and had
no intention of shooting her when I
left Boston, but was so enraged. I
loved the woman"