The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-16
NO REDUCTION.
Judge Dana Overrules Motion to
Reduce Gentry's Bond.
Motion Argued Before District
Court Today.
SUM is STILL $4,000.
Apparent, However, That He
Has a Chance to Raise 1t.
Is the Goat" Of Bleakley Kilt
mapping Case.

The motion for reduction of bond
for Joseph Gentry, accomplice in the
kidnapping of Marian Bleakley, was
overruIed today by Judge Dana of the
district court with the statement that
he considered the bond a just one ana
usual for that sort of charge, and al
though Gentry has not cent in the
his attorney, Phillip Wilson, it is now
practically assured that a redoubled
effort to secure the original bond OF
$4,000 viii meet with success.
After the decision had been given and
Gentry taken back to the county Jail,
the prisoner put in a call for his friend,
w. F. Mayberry at Kansas City, and
Wilson called up several parties con-
cerned in the case at that city.
The satisfactory result obtained by
these calls is that Mayberry himself
and an attorney whose name is with
held will confer with Attorney Wilson
and Gentry Monday morning in To-
peka- The plan is to furnish So 1000 cash
That Gentry is the goat and has been
deserted by the other parties in the
case Of whom Mrs. Barclay and Capt.
Tillotson are known is generally sup
posed, but it might be inferred from
the events today that they are recon
Sidering
1t is known to the officers that the
principal reason Gentry was dropped by
IAO OlucT pTlSOu0TS out on DOnQ ana
particularly by Tillotson, for whom he
worked. is that stated by the detective
at the time when he said: Gentry has
told all that he knows already, there is
no use in worrying about him" This
talking referred to is the information
given to Sheriff Norton that Tillotson
was in Topeka at the time of the kid
mapping.
Gentry, returned to the county JAIL re-
case. saying: There is nothing I can say
now: 1 am awaiting developments" Ger
talnly Gentry is staying by his fellows
In crime in spite of their desertion. Still
and the negotiations of his attorney that
he has not told all he knows about the
case. For instance. he might know the
other man who rode to Topeka in the
automobile from Kansas City, and who
was in Topeka awaiting. 1t is suspected
that some of these things are showing a
tendency to come to the surface and are
being used to induce Gentry's co-criminals
to aiding him.
Attorney Wilson is also keeping mum
on the developments in the case. He said
however, that he was convinced that there
is no case of kidnapping against Gentry but
that the assault charge is one to be dealt
with. He holds that inaSmuch as Mrs.
Bleakley had not been given the custody
obtainable gave it to Mrs. Barclay the
charge of kidnapping is erroneous. That is
also the stand taken by Gentry who says
that he entered the case thinking that
child and that he was merely assisting
In accomplishing her rights.
Gentry in jail, however, is in a poor
shape to get his friends to come to his
support or to confer with others of the
kidnapers in outlining their case in pre-
paration for defense, and a desperate ef-
fort to secure the bond is prophesied to
reach a satisfactory end Monday morn
ing