Evening star., 1934-07-04
PAID KILLER, SAYS
SUNSHINE LADY
Woman ConfeSSes Part in
Staying of Former Khan
Heads Guard.
By the Associated Press.

BY he Associated Press.
JEFFERSON, Wis. July 4 Mrs.
| Carrie Gill, SO, the Sunshine Lady"
( of jefferson, who for seven years
| housed Earl Gentry. 47-yesr-old
former bodyguard of D. C. Stephen
son, Indiana Klsn dragon, early to-
dsy confessed authorities said. that
she hired a painter for $50 10 kill
| Gentry.
The announcement that Mrs Gill
had confessed was made by Sheriff
( Joseph r Lsnge. who with District
Attorney Harold N. Dskin has been
working for a solution Of the mystery
that surrounded the death Of Gentry.
whose body with a bullet in its head
was found slumped in his automobile
near Mrs. CHS home last Sunday
afternoon. A search is under way
for the painter Mrs Gill said she
hired
| Dakin quoted Mrs. Gill as confess
ing she plotted for six weeks the
slaving of Gentry. her parsmour.
Mrs. Gill's statement. as made pub
lie by Dskin. named George Slim
King formerly of Milwaukee. as the
SLAYER. Dakin directed Justice Of the
Peace Arthur G. Turner TO issue
/ FIRST degree murder warrant at once.
Jealousy Held Motive.
Throughout the investigation
! Lange and Dakin have maintained
! the motive in the killing was jealousy.
prompted bv Mrs. Gill's knowledge
I that Gentry was paying attention 10
her niece Josephine Probst. who
| tainted when she saw Gentry's body
| for the first time after being out with
him Saturday night
Several hours before Mrs. Gill broke
/ down and told of the killing. Sheriff
Lange said the womans brother
! Ferdinand Probst. issued signed
! statement telling of how ne helped
painter whom he knew remove the
body from the Gill home. He said that
! his sister had spent the night al his
| home and that when he returned ne
! told her of the killing
hind LetierS ReOuklnf hlm'
/ The statement by her brother was
| withheld from Mrs. Gill while she was
/ being questioned.
The authorities said evidence that
! Mrs. Gill was Jealous Of Gentry VSS
| found BY Investigators Yesterday when
| rhev discovered among Gentrv's effects
I letters in which the widow rebuked
him for gong ont with other women
while in Indiana where. she said. ne
had gone in search Of work. She had
paid the expenses Of the trip, she
added.
Mrs. Gill. who became known In
tovnspeople as the Sunshine LADY.
! because of her charity work and
! pleasant disposition. was arrested late
/ Yesterday on a warrant charging hrSl
! degree murder. issued on what Dskin
termed "onlv circumstantisl evidence
Last November Gentry had scraUleo
notification of the will, naming Mrs.
Gill sole beneficiary. and added that
I she thres tened to kill me and have it
done on the highway"
Acquitted in Murder.
Gentry was tried with Stephenson
in 1925 in connection with the death
of Madee Oberholtzer, an indianapolis
/ girl Gentry was acquitted, hut
/ Srephenson was convicted and SEN
fenced TO life imprisonment.
Ferdinand's statement to Lsnse ana
Dskin brought an abrupt climax 10
the extensive investigation YESTERDAY
The sheriff said Probst had told MN
About ! 80 m. the morning o.
July !. 1884. fellow who mao zone
some painting for my sister Carrle
Gill. and whom l knew. came 10 my
nome and told me he had bumped on
or killed Earl Gentry at the home ot
NV sister. and that the body was so
large and heavy he had 10 have help
to get rid Of it.
He was driving Earl Gentry's car
and we went down TO the house and
drove the car into the garage at the
| house When we entered the house
| the body of Earl Gentry was lying
on rug and covered with a rug and
some towels.
Reloaded Gun.
This fellow showed me the gun
! and while there reloaded it and made
the remark he might need it again.
We dragged the body into the
back seat of the sedan. We backed
out OF the garage with the body Of
Earl Gentry in the back seat. Drove
around past the condensary and over
the CrawflSh River Bridge and ne
left me out near the Puerner house
| and drove away. He gave me the
keys for the car down at the Gill
home.
i went home and told Carrie all
/ about it and We both went to sleep
He came around the next morning
10 see me about am. l told him to
beat it out of town"
Before ProbSt or Mrs. Gill issued
| statements to authorities. Dakin said
he had three pairs of suspects under
surveillance as the probable Slavers
or persons believed to have aided the
actual slayer. Two were from Jeffer-
son, he said, two others from Wsu-
kesha and two were transients who
occasionally stop here.
One Of the suspects. Dakin de-
clared, recently dickered with the
Waukesha parties to have Gentry
killed.
Gentry was termed by authorities
as Jefferson County's public enemy
| No. l.