The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23
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arresting party and. the prisoners
boarded a motor car and were taken
to police headquarters.
Those in the party that made the
arrest are ]. F. Lyngar and C.. T.
/ Lewis, city detectives: Mr.. Stanley,
]. A. Ross. police sergeant in To-
i peka, and Ben Judkins. a deputy
sheriff in Topeka.
4 ''The child is mine legally and all I
| Missouri courts" Mrs. Barclay said
while in the motor car from the depot
to police headquarters. II have the
adoption papers with me and other
papers, too. to prove that I am the
child's rightfuI mother. I love the
baby and she was stolen from me
| after the courts of Illinois. Missouri
| and Kansas had awarded her to me-"
At police headquarters Mrs. Barclay
| repeated her story to Inspector Boyle
and asked him not to send the child
souri, gave her to me- she said. land
| / am sure they will protect me-,
Gentry Paid by Month.
Through a statement given out by
Gentry it seems that the plans had
been deep laid and the kidnapers had
| been working on the case for some
| time. Gentry said:
"I was employed in the case about
| three weeks ago." Gentry told Inspec-
| tor Boyle. my salary was to be $3.50
a month and expenses. My job was to
| get the child into Missouri so that Mrs.
Barclay could get the case into court
in the state in which the baby origin
/ ally was adopted. We succeeded when
we crossed the state line and my work
/ is now done. 1 examined the papers
in the case before I was employed by
IRIS. Barclay and I believe her to be
in the right. -
LAS to the other persons in the case
/ know none of them. We left the
motor car in which there was a chauf-
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kidnapping point We drove in buggy
the rest of the distance to the house"
Child Closely Watched.
Gentry was questioned closely by
the Kansas city officials regarding
the details of the kidnapping but out
ed to take the baby from her home he
would not divulge any facts that
would lead to the arrest of anyone
else. Inspector Boyle is of the opin-
ion that a detective agency of this
city was mixed up in the -kidna ping.
revolver and sandbag taken out
of Mrs. Barclays satchel is believed
to belong to a private detective bu-
reau.
That there were other men con-
nected with the kidnapping of the IA
nous Marian Bleakley is not doubted
by the police. Gentry informed the
inspector that ten or twelve men were
pointed out to him by Mrs. Barclay rs |
the persons who would assist. The |
men were shown to him at the Savoy |
hotel, he said. Most of those men |
Gentry said he saw near the house IN |
Topeka. aet Is
He admitted that the motor car was
arranged for in Kansas City and that
he and Mrs. Barclay, with two chauf- |
feurs, started in it to Topeka from in |
front of the Mexican Trust building |
in Kansas City. He denied that he |
made the arrangements for the car, but |
said Mrs. Barclay did. He would not |
say where the automobile belonged but |
said it was an Oldsmobile. When Mrs. |
Barclay was asked If she made the ar |
rangements, she denied it. Gentry did |
all of that sort of work. she declared |
She was known at the Savoy hotel as |
Mrs. Armstrong and occupied room 434 |
Some time last week. 1t is said, a |
man went to Kansas in the interest |
Of Mrs. Barclay and endeavored to ar
range for settlement on a cash basis. |
In this mission, 1t is alleged, the envoy |
failed. In speaking of the desire for
the little girl, Mrs. Barclay said yes
terday that she had to save her home
but that she was willing to sacrifice
everything to gain the custody of Mar
ian.
The Topeka detectives were extremely
fearful lest the baby would be again
stolen and spent Saturday night and
Sunday morning in an automobile
police headquarters. Inspector Boyle
was also skeptical of leaving the child I
unguarded and in refusing to allow
he mother to spend the night at the
station said he wanted to be sure that
he child would be there when he re-
turned in the morning.
Around the court house it is the in
tention of the county officials to do
nothing on the kidnapping case until
after Wednesday when the habeas
corpus Is returnable. I'VE will lay
low until that decision said Assistant |
County Bollinger this morning. There
will he action 1xat UhafoVRr ninth
the habeas corpus matter is clearly
out of the way"
But the officials are excited over the
case and it is the one topic of discuss
sion this morning. 1t is thought that
the whole case will be settled in Shaw
nee county if it takes a hundred years
to do it. This is of as much interest
to see it through said one of the
officials
Norton Is Disguised.
Sheriff Norton was Disguised when
Interviewed this morning ITO think
that gang of thugs can come to To-
oeka from Kansas City. arrange a hit
and knockout deed, break into one of
DUR private homes, assault and seri
,usly injure a visitor and steal from
he very floor the baby-it makes the
blood of the average man grow hot
With fever to lay his hands on the
This matter will be
brought right to this court house and
he guilty parties will suffer their /
penalties right from our judges
A little dope" has been collected on ,
he head of the kidnaper. J.. N. GEN
ry by Sheriff Norton. According to
he career of this socalled thug as ;
handed down down to the sheriff from
he Kansas City officials yesterday. 1t
S said at Kansas City that Gentry is ;
he slickest and the most treacherous
gambler and all around sport in
Kansas City. He is well known
character to the police of that city and
hey were not surprised at the action
performed Saturday. They stated to