Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-08-18
IS A BICAMIST
AND SWINDLER
DIR. X. l.. GENTRY CONVICTED In
CALIFORNIA TOWN ON BANK
SWINDLING CHARGE
HAD BEEN MARRIED THREE TIMES
May Be Brought Here on Bigamist
Charge.

fenced to serve six months in the
county Jail at San Barnardino, Cali
and was fined $500, after having been
convicted on bank swindling charge.
When he has served his time on this
charge he will have to face a charge
of bigamy, the police showing that
during February, March and April OF
this year he married three girls. The
first two girls were deserted while the
third is at San Barnardino.
Gentry showed up here the early
part of March and met Miss Mildred
Jarvis with whom he became infatu-
ated. He appeared to be a talented
young man and stated that he had
been connected with hospital at Cal
gary and was in this district looking
for location. Papers he carried
showed that he had served as n physi-
clan in the Canadian army during the
Great War He and Miss Jarvis were
married at Standpoint, March 16, 1921,
Rev. w. L. Livingston performing the
ceremony. The couple spent a few
days of their honeymoon at Spokane
and then Gentry sent his bride home
and went TO Montana, telling her that
he would send for her as soon as he
had selected a suitable location Po-
lice records show that he visited sew
eral Montana towns and was last
heard of in that state at Lewistown
where he cashed two checks at a drug
store, both proving to be worthless.
Proceedings have been started to an
nul the marriage of Gentry to Miss
Jarvis and it is quite possible that
steps will be taken to bring Gentry
here to face bigamy charges.
Of
career as a swindler and bigamist was
recently published in a San Barnar-
dino newspaper as follows:
One of the most battling and COM
plicated bigamy tangles in the history
of Southern California is being un-
woven from a web of evidence gath
cred by Sheriff w. A. Shay in inyesti-
eating the case of DR.. r. l.. Gentry,
Gentleman" prisoner in the county
Jail. Gentry, who is declared to be
one of the most systematic bank
swindlers in the United States, was ar
rested here on a charge of defrauding
two local banking institutions and was
sentenced to six months in Jail and a
fine of $500, after being allowed to
plead guilty to misdemeanor. 1t is
charged that Gentry has victimized
banks from the Atlantic to the Pacific
coast, obtaining thousands Of dollars.
but his financial activities have been
so far outclassed by his matrimonial
adventures as to put the former al
most entirely in the background, ac-
cording to the chain of evidence in the
hands of Sheriff Shay.
Evidence obtained by the Sheriff in
dicates that Gentry was married three
times within a period of one and a half
months of the present year The three
wives have been located AMI have
identified Gentry as the man they
married, it is declared. The three
wives are:
Kathleen Gillette Gentry married
to DIR. R. L. Gentry at Calgary, AIber-
ia, Canada, February II, 1921.
Mildred Jarvis Gentry-msrried to
DR.. r. L. Gentry at Standpoint, March
16, 1921.
Maybelle Halverson Gentry mar
ried to Dr. r. l.. Gentry at st. Paul,
Mimi, April 1, 1921.
Information in the hands of the
Sheriff shows that DR.. Gentry was
house surgeon in a large hospital at
Calgary, Canada, when he met and
married Miss Kathleen Gillette on
February II. He disappeared shortly
afterward, leaving his Canadian bride,
and the next trace of him is found at
Standpoint, Idaho, where, one month
after the wedding in Canada, he was
married to Miss Mildred Jarvis A
few days after this ceremony he dis
appeared, leaving bride No. ?. He
started east. On the train he met Miss
Maybelle HalversOn, member of a
prominent Minnesota family. She had
been spending the winter in California
and was returning to her home. A
courtship on the train eliminated in a
wedding as soon as they arrived in st.
Paul, Is days after Gentry had married
Mildred Jarvis at Standpoint. After a
short time in the east, Gentry started
west again, bringing his latest blide
with him, the chain of evidence shows,
This wife was with him when he was
arrested in Imperial Valley and
brought here for trial on a charge of
defaulting two local banks. The story
of DR.. r. L. Gentry, as pieced together
by officers who have been working on
the case, is one of unparalleled matri-
monial adventure.
That Gentry may have other wives
in addition to the three who have been
located, is the theory of the local CT
ficers. It is reasonable to believe,
they say, that a man who married
three women in a period of As days has
other wives. Sheriff Shay is working
on the theory that, just as Gentry left
a string of victimized banks across the
country, so did he leave a trail of
broken hearts.
First Wife Is Frustrated.
Information from Calgary, where he
married Miss Kathleen Gillette is that
Dr. Gentry's disappearance has been
unaccounted for here He held a re-
sponsible position as surgeon in
large Calgary hospital and was con-
sidered a professional man of excep-
tional ability. His wife there, who.
il is charged, he left less than a month