Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-08-01

Chicago, July 26.-Frank J. Con
stantine, alleged murderer of Mrs.
Louise A. Gentry, at her home $50 La
Sale avenue, January 6, last, is said
to be under arrest in Poughkeepsle,
n. Y. Constantine is said to have
been recognized by a woman who ar
one time lived in the apartment build
ing in which the murder was com
mitted. She reported tn the police At
Poughkeepsie that the man was Con
stantine, and he was arrested. Sher-
iff Hoffman of Duchess county, New
York, telegraphed the local police that
he was holding Constantine, saying
the prisoner did not deny his name,
but claimed he was a brother Of
Frank J. Constantine. Letters, cards
and papers found in possession of the
man all bear the name J. Constantine.
The murder of Mrs. Gentry was one
of a series of brutal crimes against
women, committed in this city early
this year, which aroused public In
dignation to white heat. No motive
for the crime has ever been discov-
cred, as Constantine and Mrs. Gentry
were alone in the apartment at the
time She died without being able to
utter word and no trace of Constan-
tine ever was discovered after he had
left the building, except from store
keeper of whom he bought a hat 80
minutes after the murder The first
intimation given of the crime was by
Mrs Gentry herself, who fell down
the stairway leading from her apart
ments, against the doorway of a
physician who lived in the floor below.
He at once opened the door and found
Mrs. Gentry lying against it with her
throat cut from ear to ear. She haG
evidently intended to go out, as she
was dressed for the street. Her death
occurred within a few minutes and
without her being able to utter n
single word. Constantine was a
boarder in the Gentry apartments and
a razor marked &C. was found on the
floor just outside the doorway. Con
stantine was seen by a number Of
people to run from the building, but
with the exception of the proprietor
of the hat store nobody is known to
have seen him since he left the build
ing A. w. Gentry, husband of Mrs.
Gentry, who is a prosperous business
man, offered large rewards for the ar
rest of Constantine, and numerous
men were arrested in various parts Of
the country, but all were later re-
leased.
Positively Identified.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, July 26.-Franll
]. Constantine has been under arrest
in jail here fo' a week, charged with
the murder of Mrs. Gentry of Chicago.
1t was not until yesterday that the
prisoner was positively identified as
Frank J. Constantine. The prisoner
was arrested at Trivoli 25 miles
above this city. where he had been
working as a timekeeper for a con-
tractor Constantine left the neigh
borhood and for some time was
around New York and Brooklyn. He
had a sweetheart at Trivoi and by
his letters to her, the deputy sheriff
located him. Constantine made an
appointment with his sweetheart and
when he arrived at Trivoli week
ago, a deputy sheriff arrested him.
Constantine says he is not the man
wanted and though at first ne ad-
mitted that his name was Frank he
now says it is Fritz. For week the
sheriff's office awaited Identification.
Yesterday Miss Ellen Schneider, who
is a cashier in a Chicago restaurant,
came here and positively identified
the prisoner as the Frank ]. Constan-
3 tine she saw in Chicago. both in the
restaurant, where he took his meals,
and in a cab the day following the
murder.
II is known that the woman who
identified the prisoner yesterday is
using an assumed name in order to
escape notoriety in the case