The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-01-08
ANOTHER
GRUE:SONE:
KILLING
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/ Special to the Daily Leader
Oklahoma City. Ian sad eyed
and sorrowlul silent, almost to the
point Of sulenness, Mrs Thomas j..
/ Gentry sat In corridor OF the coun-
! ty jail Sunday nig4- refusing 70 an
iswer All questions Size is held In
connection with the death Of her bIs.
/ band Thomas ! Gentry whose dead
body was found IN the Gentry homo,
l15lS linNood boulevard early sun
day forenoon with bullet hole
| through the bead J X MackeY and
/ Masis Nelghtman. are detained at
police headquarters, pending further
Investigation Of the case Gentry con
dncteI a cleaning works at 80 North
Broadway
Mis Gentry was placed under arr
rest early in the day, but was not
iput in Jail until 8.45 Sunday night
She was allowed to remain IN the
corridor OF the JAIL and TO sit in
chair on a landing halfway between
the first and second stories Shortly
lafter her commitment, an interviewer
called
He asked If She had any statement
Of any kind to make, Il have NOT q
word 10 say said she in low voice
Another question was asked, but TO
this she made a short answer All
the time she did not move, only so
glance a few times about the room.
Her voice was weak She looked as
though She was In great grief, but rs
she would not utter a word, except
ITO state that she had nothing to say
for publication.
Child Doesn't Know
AT the same time, and for hours be-
fore and after her commitment 10 Jail
her only child, Theodore. five years
.old. was crying for his mother aud
for his father The little child has
mot been tod of the murder Of his
father nor Of the whereabouts OF his
mother Theodore is in the keepus
.of his grandfather and Mrs GentfyB
father. j. r Weghtman who lives az
G32 East Sixth street The child
cried continually for his mother from
along IN the afternoon until near mid
night sunday night He became all
most exhausted and shortly before
the midnight hour fell into peaceful
sleep He was not told of the horri
Bile crime nor the suspicion which
rests upou his mother lie VIII be
told this iust before the interment OF
~ fathers body th@t he may Take
last look at the parent whose life was
taken Ia most mysterious manner
Theodore is too Young so even know
What death Is lie does not know
what murder is
The Police Theory
The latest theory advanced and
apparently that upon which the OIL
'cers are work.ng. Is that Mackey and
Mrs Gentry were together at the
Gentry home. that they had made up
the pitcher of egsnog, aud had iu-
dulsed therein. Olllcerst believe they
were caught in the house By Gentry
and that ihe murder was committed
there and then Officers believe
'Gentrys body vas placej iu the losi
tion in which % vas found bv ihe
murderer Or murderers Nelghb1rs
say they beard shots but the time
given ranges from o O'Clock 10 mid
might
Officers are certain that Gentry d!j
inet 90 to RI Reno Saturday night
Gentry was seen about DO clock
that night going IN the direction Dt
his home His brOtherin-law. William
Bradf of IN Reno came 10 Oklahoma
City abcHt noon sunday. He sald
Gentry usually called him ZIP when
iin El Reno ie aid not believe Gem
Itry was there Saturday night
Charles H Wooas. Santa Fe attor-
+ ney Is Aere t4das 70 attend The an