The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-25
TWO CHAUFFEURS ARE LOCATED
They Unwittingly Aided in
kidnapping.
They Drove Kidnapers to
Topeka.
The Contest Over the Right TO Marian
Bleakley, the Six-ycar-old Incuba-
tor Baby is Again I'm the Courts and
the Fight Promises TO be Long,
Hard One Before IL Is Concluded.

Kansas City. Mo, Aug. 90 Two
Kansas City chauffeurs carried Mrs.
James G.. Barclay, the Buffalo, N.
y, woman; j. N. Gentry and
second man from Kansas City to
Topeka Saturday last, when the six
year-old incubator baby, Marian
Bleakley, was kidnapped from the
home of its mother, Mrs. J. j. Bleak.
ley.
This fact developed yesterday when
the local police located ROXY" Ross
and William Buoy, two boyish looking
chauffers employed by social auto
mobile delivery company. The boys
told Inspector of Detectives Edward
Boyle that Mrs. Barclay, Mr. Gen
try and another man had engaged
them at Kansas City early Saturday.
I'VE drove them to Topeka" said
Ross, "and they told us to stop near
the outskirts of the town. After an
hours wait, horse and buggy.
containing Gentry, Mrs. Barclay and
child dashed up. Gentry pushed
Mrs Barclay into the machine and
jumping in himself, ordered us TO
drive north as fast as possible.
Ross said he was ignorant of the
nature of the business for which they
had been engaged After the start
back from Topeka, however, he sus-
pected something was wrong and he
deliberately disabled the machine.
The kidnapers were forced to con-
tinue their trip alone by other
means.
The police expect soon to arrest
the second man who was in the par
ty
James G. Barclay left Buffalo
for Kansas City last night to aid his
wife.
Yesterday for the first time since
her arrest, Mrs. Barclay made a
statement She had gone, to Topeka
five weeks ago to see the baby that
she later kidnapped. She talked with
Marian While the child played on the
stret
Fright then" continued Mrs. Bar
clay, was when the kidnapping plot
was evolved, and with the making of
that plot, l determined that nothing
should stop me. ! went back TO New
York and made my plans"
After detailing the history of the
entire case and telling the story OF
the actual kidnapping as previously
related, Mrs. Barclay concluded:
II have fought for Marian ands
will continue to fight as long as
there Is blood i'm my veins as long
as there is an atom of strength to
carry me through the struggle.
II love her> better than my life;
better than anything else on earth:
and I'll have her. know that will
be successful. for am right"
Gov. Hadley probably will be ask
ed to designate the method of de-
Gliding who is entitled to the incubat-
or baby.
Mrs. Barclay. the child's foster
mother, last night asked her attor-
neys to procure dismissal of the
habeas corpus proceedings under
which her return to Kansas for
trial Is prevented. She wants TO ap-
peal to the governor direct. This
will be done II Mrs. Charlotte Bleak
ley. the girls mother, consents
Mrs. Barclays attorney said;
1--WE want the governor to decide
what shall be done in the matter
whether to allow the woman to be
taken back to Kansas ON requisition
papers or whether the case should
go TO court here and the legality
OF the possession OF the child de-
cided in Missouri.
"All that Mrs Barclay desires is
chance to get possessin of the child
through the courts. Two courts al
ready have decided for her and we
are willing TO go to law again on
the question. The taking away of
the child from Topeka was done sim.
Dly for the purposa of getting IL in