The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-29
JAMES B. GENTRY
 IN INSANE ASYLUM
COMEDIAN, WHO KILLED MADGE YORKE. THE ACTRESS, MEN, TAL WRECK, AFTER 14 YEARS IN PRISON.

James B. Gentry. once well-known on the stage. who startled Philadel- phia fifteen years ago by killing Madge Yorke. an actress, in Zeisses Hotel, is now an inmate of a. sani- tarium in Amityville, L. l. He was sent there last week by George M Conan, the theatrical manager, after it was evident that the fourteen years he had spent in Moyamensing Prison Philadelphia had left him a. total wreck.
 Madge Yorke had at one time play ed in the same company as Gentry At the time of the murder he was in Poughkeepsie with William Collier in "One of the Boys" and she was in Philadelphia with Charles E.. Blaney's ''The Baggage Check" Insane with jealousy, Gentry. left his company one Sunday morning and hurried over to Philadelphia He forced his way where she was talking to several oth- CT members of her company, asked her to marry him, and on her refusal fired at her. 1
 She died almost immediately, but in the confusion no one tried to stop Gentry. For two days the police hunted for him. and at length found
 
 Park Since the shooting he had neither slept nor eaten. He was a mental and nervous wreck and was quite incapable of giving any rational explanation of his act.
 He was tried and his lawyers put forward the plea of insanity. The Court disregarded it and a verdict of guilty was returned. Gentry was sentenced to death. He himself took it quietly and seemed to have no an xiety to evade the penalty of his crime, but his friends took his case up and worked hard for him. They ap- pealed to the Board of Pardons, and by representing the excitement under which he was evidently labortng, and urging his strange callousness during the trial obtained a communication of the sentence to life Imprisonment.
 Gentry was sent to Moyamensing Prison and from time to time his stage friends did what they could for him. Felix Isman, Klaw & Erlang- in his behalf. but could not obtain any further remissions from the Penn sylvania authorities. It was not un- til Gentry had served fourteen years that MT. Conan succeeded in obtain ing his release.
 what he could to help him. He offer ed him a part in a road company of ''The Yankee Prince. It was a long one, and as soon as he began to re- hearse it Gentry made it evident that the long imprisonment had left it's mark on him. No one knew him, and he felt his isolation among the younger generation of players, who had grown up while he was put out of the way.
 "Give me a shorter part" he said. "I feel like a beginner
 Last Spring Gentry talked of going Sings and Talks About Broadway g but his scheme came to nothing. Co., han offered him another part. He sent it back.
 "I can't learn it,'' was the only reason that he gave.
 He began to act queerly, and last Tuesday he was sent to a sanitarium in New York Next day he was found by two of his old friends at Eighth Avenue and Fortyisecond St. He did not seem to know where he was or what he was doing. MT. Co., han had him taken back to the sani- to prevent him wandering away again.
 He had deluSions about the people around him. He declared that they were trying to rob him and that he had vast sums of money in his pock- cts that they were trying to get away from him.
 It was decided to send him to the Amityville Sanitarium and there he was taken on Saturday afternoon. The doctors say that there is still hope that he may recover, but his friends think that there is really little chance of his ever recovering from the many ha behind tha