Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-04
CONSTANTINE FOUND
ALLEGED MURDERER OF MRS.
GENTRY UNDER ARREST.

Aprfl 4.-1ne UelicI VI 'hS
Chicago police that the New York police
have Frank J. Constantine in CUSTODY
there was strengthened today, after Capt
O'Brien of the local detective bureau had
talked over the long distance telephone to
Chief Of Police McCauley of Brooklyn.
st looks better than ever" said Capt.
O'Brien Capt. McCauley tells me that
a man named Stein, who knows Constan-
tine is afraid to try to identify the man
because he knows that he is Constantine
and fears that he will be harmed. Stein
certainly knows Constantine. and the
Brooklyn police declare that he knows that
the man under arrest Is Constantine. l
will send two men to Brooklyn today, and
We will soon know the truth.
Admits He is Constantine.
NEW YORK, April Jacob Stein of this
city, from whom the police are said to have
obtained photograph of Frank J. Con-
stantine, today Identified the man now un-
der arrest in Brooklyn as man whom he
had formerly known as Frank" but he
did not know whether his name was Con-
stantine. The man under arrest denied that
he ever knew Stein. The police do not re-
gard this identification as conclusive.
The man under arrest in Brooklyn on SuS-
p,cion that he murdered Mrs. Gentry of
Chicago made a statement to the police to-
day. In which he said that he is ConstaH-
tine, the man for whom the Chicago police
have been searching. He said he did not
kill Mrs. Gentry. but that she committed
suicide in his presence. He said he was will
ing to return to Chicago and explain to the
police there.
The man was arrested Tuesday night as
he was about to board a steamer bound for
Naples. At that time he gave his name as
Pasquale Gilermo. and denied that he ever
had been in Chicago. He held to this story
steadfastly until this afternoon, even after
man named Jacob Stein, who had known
Constantine in this city, made what ap-
peared to be a very strong identification of
the prisoner earlier in the day.
Stein picked the prisoner out of a line
of half dozen Italians ranged up in the
Brooklyn police headquarters and walking
up to him. placed his hand on his shoulder
and said: This is the man. Hello, Frank.
You know me- don't your When the prs-
oner shook his head Stein continued.
They've got you right in this thing. You'd
better own up
however. and declared again and again that
he had never seen the man before.
1t was only few hours after Stein had
left the police headquarters that the prison.
er broke down and made his confession.
He told the police that he had gone to call
on Mrs. Gentry and was with her when.
for some unknown reason. she seized
knife and cut her throat He was afraid
that he would be suspected of the crime
and fed.
Now that his identity had been estab-
lished however. he willing, he said.
to go back to Chicago and tell his story
to the police of that city. The Brooklyn
police say that Stein, who identified Con-
stantine. was an unwilling witness. They
learned that Stein knew Constantine when
the latter lived in this city. and forced him
to go TO Brooklyn headquarters and at
tempt to identify the prisoner
Positive Identification.
The following telegram was received to-
day by Assistant Chief of Police Schuettler:
81 have positively identified the man
under arrest as Frank Constantine. Con-
gratulations. JACOB STEIN
Mrs. A.@eW. Gentry, for whose murder
Constantine is wanted here, was killed on
the afternoon of January 6, 1906. There
were no eyewitnesses of the crime. and the
charge against Constantine rests upon cir
cumstantial evidence. He was roOmer in
the Gentry household. and he and Mrs.
Gentry We're alone in the apartments just
prior to the death of Mrs. Gentry.
The first known of the crime was when
Mrs Gentry. with her throat cut from ear
to ear, knocked at the door of a physician
who lived in thu apartment directly be-
meath that occupied by the Gentry family.
She staggered across the threshold, and
died before she could utter a word. The
blood stained razor with which the crime
was committed was found, and was iden-
tilted the property of Constantine. The
latter was seen to run from the house in
great haste, dropping his hat as he fled.
He was followed for a short distance. and
all trace of him was then lost. Scores of
men have been arrested in different parts
of the country on suspicion of being Con-
stantine and some of them have had much
difficulty in establishing an alibi.