The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
HE KNOWS Them,
Clarence Bellnap Identifies TIL
lOtsOn and Gregg.
Detective Was in Buggy, Lawyer
Holding Horses.
HAS NOTHING TO SAY.
David Gregg Refuses to Discuss
Connection With Case.
Mrs. Bleakley Returns to Kansas
City Suspicious of Promises.
HAS NOTHING TO SAY.

In the county Jail this morning, walk
ing from one end of his cell to the other
in nervous expectation, is David T
Gregg. a North Topeka lawyer who s
! charged with being implicated in the
kidnapping of the Bleakley incubator
baby which took place just two weeks
ago today. In his office at Kansas
City. Mo-. preparing to turn over his
work to assistants is Captain Frank H.
Tillotson, the head of the Kansas Citz
detective agency. who has been ar
rested by the Shawnee county officials
and who is supposed to be so deeply
implicated in the abduction of Marian
Bleakley that he will spend few years
in the state penitentiary.
The arrest of these two was made
formally last night. Captain Tillotson
came up from Kansas City with his at
torney, E. T. Wright, was. formally ar
rested at the court house, and gave
$4,000 bond signed by A. w. Knowles.
which was duly approved by Judge
Ernest Raymond Simon of the court or
Topeka. He then returned to Kansas
City to arrange his business matters.
Lawyer Gregg was arrested at his Of
flee in North Topeka and his bond was
fixed at $1,000 at once. He was unable
to produce it and was placed in the
county jail where he is at the present
time.
1lIIOLSOn ana Gregg were DOIn rec
ognized by parties who witnessed the
kidnapping at the Bleakley home, 1927
Garfield, two weeks ago today. Clar-
ence Bellnap, the cousin Of Mrs.
Bleakley, and the man who was hit
over the head with a revolver while at
tempting to protect the little baby, Is
positive that Tillotson is the man who
was in the buggy on Morris avenua
holding the lines when Gentry and Mrs.
Barclay came running with the child.
recognize
Gregg who he states was holding the
lines standing by the horses heads just
before the flight to the automobile.
NJ. L. Stalker, a farmer living near
Auburn. who was delivering produce
in the BleakIey neighborhood the Sat
urday morning of the abduction was
also able to recognize Tillotson as the
man who was in the buggy and Gregg
as the man who held the horses. He
was passing by the house at the time
and says he also saw Mrs Barclay
standing on the front porch of the
house. This was just before the as
sauIt took p1ace Mrs. Stalker was
with her husband at the time and she |
was sure that these two men were the |
persons they saw at the time.
Gregg Is Silent.
When seen at the county Jail by a |
reporter this morning Gregg refused |
to talk. He said:
81 have been unable to see my at
torneys as yet and will not say a word !
L
have asked Qufnton & Quinton to take
them some time today or tonight |
the msome time toda yor tonight
After that talk I may be able to give |
something out"
Have you made preparations for
bond % was asked.
mot yet" replied Gregg.
Then he closed up and would not
say another word.
He has been pacing back and forth
IN his cell all day and according to the
IDEAS expressed by some of his fellow
prisoners he is nervous and excited
and fears some evil. He has stated
20 them that he is afraid he will be
'railroaded'' in the case and does not
care for such action to be placed upon
aim.
An amusing incident occurred last
night when Gregg was placed in the
big cell with the rest of the prisoners.
Sentry, the big detective who is sup
posed to be connected with the case.
vas near the door when Under Sheriffs
Balls and Sauls brought Gregg to the
.ell The big doors were thrown open
ind the sheriffs entered with the
prisoner.
"'Mr. Gentry, I want you to meet
Mr. Gregg-possibly an old friend"
aid Balls.
Gregg stuck out his hand in prepara-