00:00Beavers trying to find Gentry. The Atlanta Constitution. June 13, 1913. Felder says he
00:06will be produced at the proper time. Notary declares affidavit is genuine. Miss Jeanette
00:11Henning, the notary public whose official seal was attached to the affidavit made recently by
00:15George Gentry, has informed the Constitution that she took the document from him last Monday
00:20and that although it is genuine, she does not know its contents. She states that she had never met
00:26Gentry prior to the time he made the affidavit. Chief Beavers, who has for the past several days
00:31been attending the Convention of National Police Chiefs in Washington, is conducting a search of
00:36that city for the young stenographer. He is assisted by a number of detectives put at his command by
00:42Major Sylvester, head of the Washington Police Department. Beavers was requested by Detective
00:47Chief Lanford to find Gentry and to ascertain positively whether or not the youth had attested
00:52to the startling affidavit. Thursday noon, Lanford received a message from the chief saying that he
00:58was unable to locate his man, but that the search would continue as long as Beavers remained in
01:03Washington. Squad of sleuths at work. Lanford is apparently worried over his inability to locate
01:09the stenographer. While Beavers is scouring Washington, the detective head has detailed a
01:14squad of detectives to try and find Gentry through some local source. While this search is being
01:19promoted, Colonel Felder and others concerned in Gentry's repudiation of the dictograph reports,
01:25said Thursday that Gentry could be brought back to Atlanta at any time they desired.
01:29He will remain in Washington for ten more days, it is said. He was given a position as stenographer
01:35with a business firm which would last for thirty days, after which he intended returning to Atlanta
01:40and resume his connection with the General Fire Extinguisher Company, with whom he has been
01:44employed for considerable time. His residence in Washington, it is stated, is obscure. He is
01:50passing under an assumed name so as to avoid newspaper reporters and notoriety. He has seen
01:55but very little on the streets, detectives Aver who have talked with him, and each afternoon upon
02:01leaving his place of work, he walks hurriedly to his boarding place, remaining therein throughout the
02:06night, located by Burns. Before he was located in Washington, every agency of the Burns detective agency
02:13on the Continent was flooded with descriptions of him in the effort to apprehend him and verify the
02:18statement that the dictograph reports were padded. Less than two weeks ago, a Burns operative of the
02:24Washington office, who had studied the missing stenographer's picture, saw and recognized young
02:29Gentry as he walked home on the way from work. He was shadowed to his address. The operative wired Atlanta.
02:36Detective Miles, who is at the head of the Miles Investigating Bureau,
02:39an Atlanta concern, was sent immediately to Washington, with the result that he found
02:45Gentry at the boarding place, managed an interview with the youth, and obtained the affidavit which
02:50created a city-wide sensation following its exclusive publication Wednesday morning in the Constitution.
02:56Unusual interest is being centered in arrangements being made by the Fulton Grand Jury to investigate
03:02the affidavit and charges frames up from both sides, the detective department and the men who claim
03:07they were victimized by the dictograph plot. Immediate action is assured by officials promoting
03:12the investigation, as is the assurance that the probe will be deep and thorough. Beaver's doubts
03:17affidavit. Even without evidence of the records made with aid of the dictograph, Chief Beaver's told a
03:23Constitution reporter in Washington Thursday afternoon, we have the testimony of Secretary February,
03:29who was in the same room with the men during the famous conversations. The chief appeared to doubt the
03:34affidavit's genuineness. He declined to express any opinion about its authenticity, or whether or not
03:40Gentry Badd signed it. Also, he seemed in doubt that the George M. Gentry, whose name was signed to the
03:46document, was the young stenographer who noted the dictograph incident. A humorous incident relative to
03:51the chief's connection with the dictograph episode occurred Thursday afternoon, when the chief, in company
03:57with the Constitution's reporter, walked past the Raleigh Hotel, in which the national chiefs are holding
04:03their annual convention. The chief was with a genial party of friends. As they hove into view of the
04:08hotel, one of the group chanced to remark, You're considerably in the limelight this day and time,
04:14chief. Won a centipede race, disrupted a tender lion, and became the South's chief promoter of civic
04:20morals. This little instrument also contributed much to your fame, didn't it? With which the chief's
04:26companion laughingly pointed to a sign conspicuously displayed in a window of the fashionable hotel,
04:32be sure to see the dictograph test within. Miss Henning, who took Gentry's affidavit when seen
04:38by the Constitution's Washington representative Thursday, explained her connection with this
04:42sensational document. She told of having been called over the telephone Monday and being asked
04:48to come to room 802, Westery Building, which is occupied by the Louisville and Nashville railway
04:53offices. She was wanted to witness a legal paper.
04:56I met two men in room 802, she said, and after going through the usual formalities,
05:02attached my seal to the document a Mr. Gentry signed in my presence. I accepted the usual fee
05:08of 25 cents, although the men wanted to give me 50. I did not know the man, Mr. Gentry. Neither
05:13did I
05:14know the contents of the affidavit. I did not have time to read it. Immediately after affixing my seal,
05:19I left the party in room 802. They seemed pretty well acquainted all round. Had I known at the time
05:25that the paper was as important as it has proved to be, I would have taken time to read it
05:30thoroughly.
05:31Miss Henning is a law clerk.
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