The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
GENTRY HAS HOPE
Thinks Barclays Will Help Him
Out of Trouble.
Says Woman and Husband
Promised to Do So.
STILL CLUE HUNTING.
Officers Say That They Will
Make More Arrests.
Kidnaper in County Jail Hasn't
"Peached."
STILL CLUE HUNTING.

| man hunt for clues to the identity of
certain unknown people who have
| been mixed up in the Bleakley kid
naping case. The warrants issued for
the purpose of gathering in these sus-
poets have only been fruitful in one
respectively have in possession the
I head of the Kansas City detective
agency. F. H. Tillotson. His lawyer
was here yesterday and Tillotson is
| expected this evening-unless he takes
a notion to believe himself guilty and
then the county may have to chase
him across the country.
Joseph Gentry, the active detective
in the case who is in the county Jail,
| received letter from Clyde Taylor of
Kansas City. who has been acting as
one of the head counsels for Mrs. Bar
clay, today. The letter was another
indication of weakness which is ap-
pearing in the Barclay forces. Mr..
Taylor wrote in his letter to Gentry
that he had withdrawn from the case
altogether on account of a lack of
fees He also stated that he would
not act as attorney for Gentry until
the latter guaranteed the fees;
ssdoo From the the tenor tenor Of the letter a it
touched by the financial drouth of the
lady kidnaper and he has withdrawn
| his support. 1t is expected that John
AIWOOQ, the OLn6T n0dQ counsel,
will also withdraw and the case will
| then be in the hands of the court. 1t
is pretty well known that Mrs. Bar
clay has spent her last cent with the
for the capture of the baby, it is al
legged. Gentry insists that Mr.. and
Mrs Barclay will help him in his trou-
BILE but declares that he is in Jail on
his own responsibility at the present
time and is asking favors of no one.
The warrants which have been is
sued for the arrest of a, number of
suspects have not been served and the
county officials refuse to reveal any of
the parties. 1t is said that there are
number of Topeka people In. the affair.
If the statements by Mrs. Bleakley are
true (the statements made the day of
the capture of the child), a prominent
Topeka lawyer, neighbor and a COM
mission man of this city are head over
naturally excited when she made her
statements but since then her predic-
tions seem to be working out to sat-
isfactory end. The county officials will
not give out any hint as to the identi-
f1cation of the persons and Gentry
claims that he knows no one in To-
peka who was in the deal.
County Attorney Schenck has refused
Gentry's application to have a separate
hearing in the case and Mr.. Schenck
stated today that the kidnapers and all
their accomplices- would be lined up on
September 8 and receive their hearing.
The county attorney is of the opinion
that there are q large number of
prominent people both from Topeka
and Kansas City implicated in the kid
naping deal and before the week is over
they will be in the county Jail or out on
bond.
The county authorities are still in
sisting that Tillotson, the big Kansas
City detective is the king bee'' of the
whole show. He has been furnishing
Mrs. Barclay reports of the condition
of the child its schooling, its behavior
and its environments for the last few
years. He was at one time connected
with the kidnapping of the baby but he
claims to have dropped out of it this
time, fearing the result. He will be
asked to furnish as big bond as Mrs.
Barclay and Gentry If he fails to come
to the city of his own accord a requisi
tion will be secured at once.
Mrs. Barclay Goes East.
To avoid being asked for an inter
view, Mrs. James G. Barclay, the
cubator baby, yesterday spent the day
and the evening at the different parks
in Kansas City, and stayed away from
the hotel where she is stopping.
Mrs. Barclay left last night for Mo-
line. I'LL, but will stop at ST. Louis to
see DIR. Otto Hurley who attended Mrs
Charlotte E. Bleakley when Marian
Eleakley, the kidnapped child, was born.
A record book in the possession of Mrs.
Barclays attorneys, which belonged .
Dr. Hurley, has an entry dated Feb
ruary Is, 1904, that a child born to Mrs
Bleakley died.
Gentry Enters Denial.
In a long talk with a State Jour-
nal reporter this morning in which
most of the questions were answered
with a shake of the head and a |
grunt, Joseph Gentry the kidnaper
of the Bleakley incubator baby, en-
phatically denied all of the alleged
statements that have been given out
concerning his trouble with the Bar
clays his disclosure of names and
ing and his talks with Sheriff Norton
and County Attorney Schenck
After the interview Sheriff Norton
and the county attorney admitted that
Gentry had given absolutely nothing
to them and that they had but one
he refused to make use OF any names
whatever-he only stated that there
were other parties in the deal but re- |
fused to give their names.
In the interview this morning Mr.. |
Gentry said:
thing out to the newspapers is be- |
cause they have misQuoted me and |
printed wrong statements about me |
ever since 1 have been mixed up in |
this affair There have been a num- |
her of alleged interviews and let me /
statement beside this one that I will |
give you today
us it true that there is hard feel |
ing between you and the Barclays %
was asked.
.sThat is untrue" replied Gentry. |
promised me their support and before |
Mr.. Barclay left he said that he would |
do all in his power to help me in the |
courts. They have never refused to