The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-06
|SCHENCK is FIRM
VIII Make No Compromise With
Ars. Barclay.
suit Tor Possession of Incubator
Baby Still Pending.
WILL BE DROPPED.
County Attorney Confident It
Will Not Be Pressed.
Officers Searching fer" "theOther
Woman" in the Case.
WILL BE DROPPED.

ise between the Barclay ATTORNEYS and
this office and there will not be anv
compromise concerning the disposition
of the Bleakley baby and the punish
ment of Mrs. Barclay. These reports
to the effect that Mrs. Barclay is fig
uring on a compromise in order that
she might obtain the clemency of the
court are false.'
These were the words of County
Attorney Schenck this morning when
he was asked concerning the prospects
for an adjustment of the whole kid
naping affair. The report that the
Barclay attorneys were beating the
bush for settlement of this kind has
been floating around for some time
and as the habeas corpus proceedings
approach their scheduled time the
matter is coming to a head.
Naturally" continued Mr.. Schenck
when person attempts to do the
square thing and is willing to abide
by the natural course of events, the
court is 1enient with them. If Mrs
Barclay wishes to surrender all claims
to Marian Bleakley and promises to
drop the whole case and return the
child to Mrs. Bleakley the court will
recognize this submission and deal fair.
!y with her but as far as compromise
is cOncerned-we will have and have
had nothing to do with it in any man
ner."
Despite the warnings sent out from
the Barclay legal camp in which IT is
stated that they will make battle it is
the candid opinion of the attorneys at
the court house that the habeas corpus
proceedings will be dismissed at oncO
and the trial at Topeka Wednesday
VIII constitute the grand finale of the
famous kidnapping of Marian Bleaklcy
the incubator baby
If the habeas corpus PROCEEDINGS
are not dismissed they will be con-
faI~
to come to a decision over the owner
ship of the incubator baby and Mrs.
Barclay and the other PRINCIPALS in
the case are due to appear in To-
peka, Wednesday for the preliminary.
County Attorney Schenck will con-
duct the preliminary and the criminal
charges against the kidnapers in spite
of anything that might be brought
out to stop him. The fact that there
is a question as to the custody of the
child will not have anything to do
wit hthe criminal charges against the
kidnapers. There is a wide and prob
ably well founded idea, however. that
Mrs. Barclay will never go to the
penitentiary for her action. Her
agentss the detectives, are in a bad
light and it is the general opinion
that hey are in grave danger of the
bars.
1t has developed today that Tillot-
son was in Topeka at the Throop and
the National hotels the day before
and the day of the kidnapping. He
registered at both these hotels and
He has been recognized by Clarence
Bellnap and NJ. L. Stalker, the
farmer, but these registrations prove
another fact. T1llotson's- attorney, Z.
D. Wright of Kansas City, insisted
that Tinotson was not in the city
and has nothing to do with the case
whatever.
1t is also fact hat Joseph Gentry
at the Chesterfield hotel
the day before the abduction under
an assumed name. 1t is thought that
he came to Topeka the day before in
the automobile hired at Kansas City
for the purpose of taking away the
child. He is said to have
been accompanied to Topeka by his
wife. Her connection with
the kidnapping is remote and she will
not be arrested. Mrs. Barclay also
registered at the Chesterfield during
her stay in Topeka. '.'---t-----.
There is another mystery surround
ing the case that is puzzling the county
officers at this time. 1t has been
proven that Mrs. Barclay was not All
active accomplice in the abduction of
Bleakley from her home OH
Garfield avenue. 1t seems that Mrs
Barclay was out in the automobile near
the st. Francis hospital and she took
the child into custody only after 1t had
been delivered into her hands by the
IL is SAID InaC Sne old not
go near or enter the house.
Mysterious Woman Is Missing.
This goes to prove that there is still
another woman in the case The w0-
man who was selling soap in the neigh
borhood of the Bleakley home and who
entered the house and gave
the signal to the waiting detectives, is
still an unknown quantity. She has not
been heard from since the abduction
and has suddenly disappeared from thu
earth, giving the officers the slip. She
did not enter the buggy waiting
Morris avenue with the men and she
was not seen after leaving the house.
According to the neighbors the woman
was rather large, wore a black dress,
black hat and white shirtwaist. She
was selling toilet soap, apparently, and
her agency duties. She was in the
house when Gentry entered.
An unknown man was in the buggy
when the child was delivered to the
Morris avenue conveyance and he alsD
as suddenly as he ap-
peared.
The two men who had charge of the
Kansas CITY automobile and the ma
at the garage were subpoened by the
county attorney this morning and th7y
are due to appear at the preliminary
Wednesday morning at nine o'clock.
The names of the auto men are c. NJ.
C1oughly, NJ. c. Buoy and Charles r.
Ross. It is said that Ross admitted be-
ng implicated in the case to his moth
II in Kansas City and she straightway
,ainted. He will be valuable witness.
Gregg Still in Jail.
When. seen at the county Jail this
morning David Gregg. the North To-
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