Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1907 — CONSTANTINE IS CAUGHT. [ARTICLE]

CONSTANTINE IS CAUGHT.

Alleged Slnyer of Mr*. Gentry Taken After I.oiik Chase. Accused of the murder of Mrs. Louise Hughes Gentry. Frank Constantine admitted to the Xew York police Unit he Is the man whom the Chicago authorities have sought for fifteen months. Since the murder of the woman on Jan. 6, 1006, Constantine, who admits he was with her at the time of Ikt death, has been a fugitive, fleeing from the police first to Italy, then back to the United States, to South America; and back to the United States again, lie was about to embark for a second trip to ITaTy Ivlien he'waTcaviglffrTTe ehrmm the woman committed suicide and says that he tied because he was afraid he would he accused of the' crime and would be uaablo to prot*e his innocence. The murder of Mrs. Gentry was par-, ticujarly bruta_L.her head- being almost severed from her body by a razor slash. Constantine had boon a lodger at the Gentry home several weeks. He posed as a man of wealth. He sai l that he was the son of Frank J. Constantine. the wealthy real estate man of Xew York. Mrs. Gentry had been >J.iss Leu iso Hughes, an artist of some prominence. She had been married to Gentry about one year. Once, it was reportefl. she told the wife of the janitor that she was afraid she would be killed. She gave no explanation for this assertion. After Constantine’s disappearance- a number of suspects were arrested in different part* of the continent.