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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29

Three times the date was set for
his hanging but in every case stays
of execution were obtained and finally
Gentry had his sentence committed to
life Imprisonment
For the first part of his stay in
prison Gentry lived like man dazed.
He took no interest in anything and
the feebleness of his health was only
matched by the weakness Of his men
tai condition. Then some kindly war
den conceived good idea of putting
him in charge of the flower beds of
the Eastern Penitentiary. This work
kept him in the open from 10 o'clock
in the morning till in the afternoon.
This contact with nature gradually
restored the shattered mind and weak
ened body.
Then Gentry began to read. He
had access to more than ten thousand
books in the prison library and these
developed his thoughts far beyond the
confines of his cell.
Lifted out of his idleless and de.
spair he began writing for the stage,
parts OF plays, sketches and songs.
Actors who were endeavoring to OBJ
tain his freedom welcomed the chance
to give him work.
Many of the wittiest sayings that
made the Great White Way" one Of
the biggest successes of the year were
the work of jim Gentry. Some of
his best work was done for Nat Wills
whose impersonation of tramp is
famous from coast to coast. Hap
Ward is another actor who drew upon
the brain of the life prisoner for some
of his most successful sayings.
Geo. M. Cohen, one of the most
prolific playwrights and song writer's
that the stage has ever known, more
that once commissioned Gentry to
turn out portions Of plays.
1t is marvel how Gentry was able
to furnish this up-to-date material, for
during his stay in prison he had vir.
tually passed out of the current Of
life. He had never seen an automo.
bile, was stranger to the marvels of
the moving pictures, and had yet to
hear the strains from talking ma
chine
Yet he was able to amuse thousands
of people in daily touch with every.
thing that is modern. During all this
time the fight to free Gentry had been
going on with notable pertinacity and
Messrs. Klaw and Erlanger, Nixon
and Zimmerman, the Schuberts, Bel
asco and other prominent persons
theatrically, We're liberal cOntribut Ors
to fund and Attorney VIM. Stake
never ceased his efforts.
When the Board Of Pardons was
persuaded to act favorably Governor
Stuart of Pennsylvania was only too
glad to affix his signature to the order
for Gentry's discharge.
Friends of the actor have arranged
to send him to farm for few
months SO that he can win back
health after which he will devote him
self to writing for the stage
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29
NORWAY.

DR.. Fridtjof Nansen is ready to start
on new expedition into arctic waters
in his private yacht Veslemoy, which
has been furnished with ice sheathing
and otherwise specially equipped for
the voyage. He will continue his
oceanographtc Investigations, paying
special attention to currents and the
warmth of the water at the surface
and at great Depths These currents,
1T has been proved, have decided
effect on the climate and the fisheries
of Norway. DR.. Nansen's trip will ex.
tend to Iceland and Greenland and
will continue throughout the summer
and fall.
Ibsen's "The Lady from the Sea-"
(Fruen fra Hayet). It is stated on
good authority that Ibsen got the nu-
cleus of the drama bearing the above
title from the city Of Mode. On
glorious summer evening he was chat
ting with an elderly, highly educated
lady, and she told him a Nordland
legend about Finn who, .tby the
charm of his eyes, induced preach
er's wife to leave her husband and
family and go with the Finn. The
story made deep impression on the
poet. He became silent, and stared
straight into vacancy as If he already
saw his Lady from the. Sea- When
this book was published the lady who
told the story related the incident to
some Of her friends, and one Of those
has at last given the whole informa-
ton to the public.
The odelsting, a. branch Of the
storthing. voted down a proposition
to make 10 hours the maximum length
of g working day, the vote being So to
80. Only u votes were cast In favor
of an eight-holr day The odelsting
also voted down a motion to limit the
working hours to IS q week. In this
case the vote was AZ to rs.
Mr.. Sep has resigned as church
minister on account Of LII healt i, and
Knud Johannes Haugen. who has I'm Il
charge sol ft The III work Al this depart.
ment was appointed to ali tho nv
cancy. sssss
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29

shole life was centered in Madge
While she welcomed the attention of
ther admirers.
For time they played in the same
ompany and it was generally under
TODD that they were engaged to wed.
Then their theatrical paths diverged.
Madge probably welcomed the new
ondition but to Gentry the loss of
he chance to see his sweetheart con
family was terrible deprivation and
ne exerted all the ingenuity of a man
"a love to find chances to get to her.
One of these rendezvous, a meeting
ot consummated, was the death SEN
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29
Rail Company Files Articles.

Pierre, 8. D.-Articles of in
corporation were filed here for the
Riyerview & Northern Wisconsin
Railway Company, to construct line
thirty miles in length to extend from
Fairchild, Wis, to Stanley, Wis. The
officers of the company are to be at
Pierre and at Riveryiew, Wis, and it
is capitalized at 100000. The incor-
porators are: l.. Shoudy and B. e.
Shoudy, Rockford, Ill: D. w. Shoudy
and n. 3. shoudy. Fairchild, Wis. and
James Sek:ae Pierre. $3.50
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29
He Had Reason to Flee

This affidavit was filed in court of
common pleas in Dublin in 1922 And
this deponent further saith, that on
arriving at the home of the said de-
PENDANT for the purpose Of personally
serving him with the said writ. he. the
said deponent. Knocked three several
times at the outer. commonly called
the hall door, but could not obtain
sadmittance; Whereupon this deponent
was proceeding to knock fourth
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29
Boys Fight Fatal Duel.

Auguste and Marcel Malo, cousins.
aged respectively IL and 10 years,
fought a duel with pistols ct Ludres,
France, recently and the younger boy
was killed. "My cousin called my
mother a theft" Marcel said, "and
said she had stolen money from
our grandmother and l avenged her
honor, but l am sorry now for what
has happened"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29

e. w. Ritter, Stockholm building
contractor who died some time ago,
bequeathed $4,000 to charitable insti-
tutions.
The taxed income Of the citizens Of
Maimo is put at $13, 100000 for this
year. For the year 1908 the amount
was s13,640,0OO. II 1sl
The car of Russia sent souvenir
present of great value to Premier
L1ndman shortly after the cars visit
to Stockholm. The gift is gold snuff
box On which appear the imperial
crown and the name of thu giver set
in brilliants, and the box is otherwise
richly ornamented with precious
stones.
The Swedish tariff commission.
which has been at work for three
years, upholds the principle Of pro-
lection, particularly on the coarse
wares produced in that. country, and
also the imposition of high duties on
Injuries. The commission recon-
mends that the cabinet be empowered
to make an interim minimum or max
ilnum tariff in case of emergency,
such tariff to be submitted to approx
al of the first following riksdag.,' The
same policy with regard to "retalia-
tory tariffs" Is also recommended.
The commission made an exhaustive
investigation of the dumping" into
the Swedish market of goods made In
other countries, at price below that
in the country of production. Dump
ms" is said to be practiced by most
German manufacturers; in the case
of the United States, 1t is alleged prin-
cipally as to iron and leather goods;
In Belgium, in the case Of glass; in
England and Australia, in the case of
textile goods. The proposed tariff Is
avoWedly a protective one, higher
than the existing tariff, and contains
l,2Sl specific rates. 1t is also avow-
eddy made to serve as the basis Of
future treaties.
The Scandinavian Stock Insurance
Company has provided in It's constitu-
ton that controversies regarding the
payment of damages for the injury of
insured animals shall not be brought
before the courts, but settled by three
umpires. who are to meet in the cap
ital of the province in which the ami
NAL was injured. A short time ago
the company was confronted with
case which put this provision to a Sc
we're test. An insured horse belong
ing to an army officer was sent to
Denmark to take part in races. and
the animal was injured in that coun-
try. The company claimed that it was
not under any obligation to pay dam
ages because the injury was done in
foreign country, the situation stat
Ing that the umpires shall meet at the
capital of the province Qan) In which
the injury Is sustained, and Denmark
being no such Tan" But the com
pany agreed on compromise, and
the umpires, without regard to the
constitution, to the terms OF insur-
ance, or to common law, decided that
the company should pay damages.
This put the company in bad pinch,
the constitution precfuding recourse
to the courts. The company looked
upon the result as dangerous prece-
dent, and as soon as possible the own
ers of insured officers horses were
notified that the insurance on their
animals was no longer in force. and
that rebates would be paid at the Office
of the company in cases where the
terms of insurance had not expired.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29

tence for the woman and fourteen
years imprisonment for her lover.
Gentry was playing in Providence,
Miss Yorke, then a member of the
Baggage Check" company was play
ing in Philadelphia. Gentry arranged
a meeting in New York City, half
way point. All afternoon he waited
anxiously for Miss Yorke. Whether
she Willingly failed to keep the tryst
or misunderstood the arrangement is
secret she carried to her grave.
Gentry, maddened with jealousy,
added to the stress of his mind with
heavy drinking. In this condition he
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29

time, when man, to this deponent
unknown, holding in his hands a mus
ket or blunderbuss, loaded with balls
or slugs,, as this deponent has Stree
heard and verify believes, appeared at
one Of the upper windows of the said
house. and presenting said mnsket or
blunderbuss at this deponent, threat
ened that IL said deponent did not in.
;stantly retire, he would send his tthe
deponent'sJ soul to hell, which this
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29

From the solitude of the prison cell
where he spent fourteen years requit-
ing the murder of Madge Yorke,
James B. Gentry, just freed, sent
comedies and songs that made the
country laugh
With amazing ability to forget the
despair of his own fortunes the i'm
prisoned actor write skits and songs
Tor many prominent producers and is
credited with some of the biggest sue
,esses of the last five or six years.
This fact only became public since
The recent pardon of Gentry.
This pardon was the elimination of
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29
His Thoughts Were of the Bath,

When Robert was only three, he
found discarded calendar, and on it
the bust picture of woman with only
drapery thrown across her Shout
ders. He was looking at it very in
tently, and then said: Keep your
towel around you, goil! Your mamma
will come pretty soon wifi you clothes"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29
A Fact. But Indefinite,

While out walking with her papa
and mamma one day, Florence, aged
four, ran some littls distance ahead
AS she got near a mule hitched to d
farmers wagon, the animal began to
bray. She wheeled instantly, and run
ming to her mother as fast as she
could go, said in round-eyed astonish-
ment: "Oh, mamma sumfin said sum-
fu."-The Delineator.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29
Marriaqe,

1t certainly cannot be the proper vo-
cation OF all women to bring up chill
aren, so many of them are dead fail
ures at 1t, and / don't see why all
girls should be thought failures who
DO not marry.-The late Sarah Orne
JeWett, whose "Deephaven" is the only
first-rank novel without love story in
If
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29
deponent verify believes he would
have done. had not this deponent pre-
cipitately escaped."
Beetle Hunting il Quee nsiand.

TIf-1. = ~ ~<SVCIIoldIIQs
a reward of Is. Sd. pound was re-
Gently offered by the Queensland
sugar planters, writes Brisbane
ztAustralia} correspondent, for beetles
OF the , destructive sugar cane grub
Hundreds of men and boys have now
taken up beetle hunting as a protss.
sion ION One man earns a6 week
throughout the beetle season." and
the boys make from e ss..
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29

THE ROMANCE OF
JAMES 3. GENTRY
In Solitude of Prison Cell Gentry Wrote Songs
Which Made the World Laugh

SIS S. s. ss-:s-ss-ss-ss-ss-ss-ss-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
RELATIVES ASK
SHARE in WILL
CHARGE LEGATEES EXERTED
UNDUE INFLUENCE
LAWFUL HEIRS OF WILLIAM
RILEY DEMAND HEARING
Estate Valued at 100000, and Only
Small Portion of Which Went
to Sons, Is Tied Up by
Litigation

Three heirs of William Riley, who
died February 23 leaving an estate
valued at more than 100000, filed a
petition in the superior court yesterday
asking that the probate of his will,
filed March 3, be revoked. They ie-
mand a hearing on charges that Riley,
who was 81 years old at the time of his
death, was unduly Influenced when he
bequeathed them only comparatively
small portions of his property.
The petitioners are Miles Riley
James Riley and Charles Riley, SONS,
and they are expected to be joined lat
er by other relatives in al effort to
have the will set aside
The charges are particularly directed
against Miles A. Long. a former pa
trolman, and his wife, Julia F. Long.
who, according to the petition, ingra-
tiated themselves into Riley's good
will, pretended affection for him and
poisoned his mind against his relatives
for the purpose of influencing him to
leave his property to themselves and
certain other persons who are named
as legatees in the will.
These legatees, together with j. NJ.
Elliott and Henry j. Pinney, executors
of the will, were cited by Presiding
Judge Wilbur yesterday to appear be-
fore Judge Rives in the probate court
September to show cause why the
will should not be revoked.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
ASKS CHANGE OF VENUE
FOR BANK NAME MATTER
Fact That Judge Wilbur Is Trustee of
Institution Owning Stock in
Corporation Is Cited

Because Judge Wilbur of the superior
court is a trustee Of the Hollenbeck
home, which owns twenty-five shares
of the capital stock of the First Ma
tional bank, a request was made yes
terday by J. f. Sartori, vice president
of the Los Angeles Savings bank, to
transfer to another department of the
court the hearing on the application
of the Los Angeles Trust company for a
change of name to the Los Angeles
Trust and Savings bank, which is being
contested by the savings bank on the
ground that the change would be an
infringement and would result in con-
fusion.
In his affidavit Mr.. Sartori expresses
the fear that Judge Wilbur would show
bias and prejudice because the First
National bank owns all the shares OF
the Los Angeles Trust company and
that the judge, by virtue of his trus-
teeship of the Hollenbeck home, and
since he is one of the legal owners in
trust of twenty-five shares Of the First
National, is also the owner of the bene-
fetal interests in a large number OF
shares of the trust company.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
JUSTICE HAS PLAN
TO PROTECT WIVES
WILL HOLD CLUB OVER BAD
HUSBANDS
Court Continues Cases Against Men
Who Fail to Support Spouses
as Long as They Are
Faithful

Justice Ling has evolved a plan to
dispose of the numerous abandonment
cases coming before him since the new
law making non-support by husband
felony became effective. The justice
has adopted a probation system of his
own making, and instead of holding
recalcitrant husbands to answer to the
superior court will release them during
good behavior, or, as the justice eX-
presses it, Continue the case to be set
on motion of the district attorney"
The first experiment was made yes
terday in the case of A. Tayian, an
Armenian, whose wife, a pretty young
woman, told her side of the domestic
troubles volubly and with sufficient ac-
centuation, gesticulatively and YER
bally, to support her husbands state
ment that he could not live with her.
Justice Ling would not go so far as
to order him to do so, even If he had
that power, but told Tayian he would
make his attorney a depOsitary for a
weekly sum to be paid by the latter to
the wife. Failure to do So he said
would result in his arrest on the old
charge, which was continued indoti-
nitely.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
GIRL WIFE DENIES
Her ABANDONMENT 7
TESTIFIES IN FAVOR OF HER
HUSBAND
Woman Says Her Parents Have
Sought to Estrange Her from Her
Young spouse-Refuse to
Accuse Him

Mrs Mary Gaines, the 16-year-old
wife of ". T.. Gaines, who disappeared
from her parents home August 10, was
found by Deputy Constable Benjamin
yesterday in a roOming house on West
Fifth street, and an hour later ap-
peared in Justice Perce's court to tes-
tify in the case Of her husband, arrest
ed on a complaint sworn to by her
mother, charging abandonment.
MY parents have been trying to
separate US ever since we were mar
ried." was the statement made by Mrs.
Gaines on the witness stand, adding
that she had left her husbands home
because he, with two male companions,
had turned the place into beer gar
den one night while she was absent.
She also denied her mothers state
ment that Gaines refused to support
her and expressed a desire to return to
him Justice Pierce, on motion of Asa
Keyes, deputy district attorney, dis
missed the complaint and Gaines and
his wife left the courtroom arm in arm
A second complaint against Gaines,
in which his motherin-law accused
him of threatening to kill his wife, was
also dismissed.
Mrs. Gaines said she had been work.
ing in a department store and support
ing hersef since she left her parents
home nearly three weeks ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
NATIONAL INSURANCE
CONVENTION CLOSED
COLORADO SPRINGS ASSEM-
BLAGE is AT END
Officers Are Chosen and Mobile, Ala,
Is Selected as Next Meeting
Place for the Under
writer's

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Aug.
27-With the selection of Mobile, Ala,
as the meeting place for next year,
and the election of officers, the fortieth
annual convention of the national in
surance commissioners closed at noon
today. The report of the nominating
committee, which was adopted, follows:
J. A. Harrigan. st. Paul, president.
Eugene ]. McGivney, Baton Rouge,
La, vice president.
II. r. Cunningham, Helena, Mont,
secretary.
Executive committee-W. H. Hotch-
kiss. Albany, N. Y; r. H. Mcdonald,
Hartford, Conn; Joseph Button, Rich
mond, Va; j. r. Young, Raleigh, N. C.;
f. II. Harrison, Boston, Mass; f. N.
Julian Montgomery, Ala.
On the acceptance of the report IL
was decided that hereafter no nominat-
ing committee would be named, NOM
nations to be made on the floor of the
convention.
A resolution was passed to the effect
the convention was in favor of placing
interinsurance companies, such as
Lloyds and others, on the same foot
ing as stock insurance companies. The
resolution was submitted by Commits
siont. Henry of Mississippi.
Another resolution of Importance was
that instructing the special fraternal
insurance committee to draw up uni
form bill for the regulation of fraternal
societies in every state.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
WIFE AND BABIES
HEAR MANS DOOM
THOMPSON, ACT0R-BURGLAR,
GIVEN THREE YEARS
POLICE RECORD OVER5ALANCEs
NEEDS OF FAMILY
Judge Davis Sentences Thief Sorrow
fully, Filled with Pity for lnno-
cents Who Must Suffer More
Than Guilty

A woman, pretty and neatly dressed,
sat in Judge Davis court room yester-
day. Accompanying her were two lit
tie babies, one able to toddle and to
lisp the baby names for its parents;
the other d tiny mite in its mother S
arms.
They were the wife and children of
George Thompson, the "actor- burglar
and there was q murmur of sympathy
for the little group, seemingly alone in
crowded court room, when the huS-
band and father entered from the door
leading to the county jail and stood
near the jury box to receive SEN
tence.
The accusations against Thompson
numbered a score or more; the COM
plants filed against him, two. In or
der that he might escape a long term
in the penitentiary he pleaded guilty
to one charge, and 1t was announced by
c. c. McComas. assistant district at
tOrney, that the other complaints
would be dismissed.
Thompson said he robbed the house
of E. j. Bennett June q, and in eX-
PLANTATION of this and other offenses
said he was compelled to steal that he
might get money to pay household eX-
penses and doctor bills.
Tells Pathetic Story
when I came to Los Angeles I
bought a lot at Redondo Beach and
was making arrangements to build a
house. paying for il by installments, -
he told the court. "Then my little girl
became i'll and we incurred doctor bills.
Gas bills and house rent became due,
and when I was almost distracted my
wife's health broke down. l offered the
lot IN a nhVgiPi1n
would treat my wife and he agreed.
But l still needed money for other
things and pawned my watch, guaran-
teeing 81 commission for a two days
loan of SO when everything seemed
against me 1 mounted a bicycle and
went upon a campaign of stealing"
Are you a man of family?" asked
Judge Davis.
Thompson's eyes filled with tears and
he could only indicate by a nod the
sorrowful woman and little ones sitting
among the spectators.
The thing that is most deplorable
in cases of this kind is that innocent
persons must suffer, perhaps more
than the guilty" said Judge Davis.
Thompson was sentenced to three
years in San Quentin penitentiary.
Investigation by the police depart
ment shows Thompson has long
criminal record and that he has been
a professional burglar for fifteen years.
Reports to the department are that he
committed twenty-five burglaries in
Los Angeles, has been convicted on
four felony charges in as many differ
ent cities, and that a bench warrant
for his arrest has been issued by the
circuit court of Oregon, which state
he is said to have left while a criminal
charge was pending against him.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
Incorporations

The following articles of incorpora-
ton were filed in the county clerks Of
flee yesterday:
Semi Tropic Citrus Land company
capital $125 600; directors, H. T. Coffin
George NJ. Rea and George A. Otis
Los Angeles; j. F. Ballot, Alhambra
and w. J. Williams, Pasadena
Akin Reinforced Concrete company
capital 100000; directors, Perry w
Weidnes and Farley A. Lord, Los An
geles. and Fred H. Sears, Chicago.
Columbia Manufacturing and Loan
company, capital $4,000; directors,
John V. Hoffman, G. E. Averill and II.
G. Elliott.
Long Beach Electrical Manufacturing
company capital $4,000; directors, Joel
Gleason, Thomas J. Corbrey, w. II.
Tidmarsh and Clair Gleason, Long
Beach, and s. F. Estell, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-28
BELMONT HEIGHTS BOARD is
ORDERED TO CALL ELECTION
Trustees Contest Writ of Mandate
Forcing Them to Pave Way
fer Annexation

Albert league, representing a number
Of Belmont Heights taxpayers, was
successful yesterday in his efforts to
compel the board of trustees of the city
to call an election for October to
determine whether or not it shall be
annexed to Long Beach
The trustees, who, it is said, are op-
poAd to the annexation movement
contested leagues application for d
writ of mandate on the ground tAe
petition signed by citizens of Belmont
Heights and submitted to them was
defective Judge Bordwell, before whom
the hearing took place, stated while
tho petition showed some defects, they
were not sufficient to vitiate it, and
the temporary writ Of mandate issued
by Judge Wilbur several days ago,
was made permanent.
The trustees will,( it is expected,
make provisions for the election at
their meeting next Monday,