The Laclede Blade

INCUBATOR BABY KIDNAPED
MRS. BARCLAY TOOK CHILD FROM HOME OF ITS MOTHER.
Arrested in Kansas City—Gov. Stubbs Issues Requisition for Their Return to Kansas.

Topeka, Kansas.—Sheriff J. D. Norton and Deputy County Attorney Arthur Bolinger went to Jefferson City with a requisition on Gov. Hadley of Missouri for Mrs. Stella Barclay and John Gentry, charged with kidnaping Marian Bleakley here Saturday. Chief of Police R. W. Eaton has warrants and is ready to leave in case it is necessary to bring the kidnapers back here.

This action follows the kidnaping here Saturday of Marian Bleakley, the famous St. Louis World's Fair incubator baby who has been the cause of litigation extending over several years. The child was at the home of Mrs. Bleakley in the care of a boy, a relative of Mrs. Bleakley when a man and woman drove to the house, when the man attempted to seize the child the boy interfered and was knocked down. The child was carried to the buggy and thence a few blocks to where an automobile was in waiting when a hurried race for the Missouri line commenced. The parties were arrested in Kansas City.

The warrants charge Mrs. Barclay and Gentry with an assault with attempt to kill and in case the requisition on the kidnaping charge is refused, Gov. Hadley will be asked to honor the one based on the assault charges. Mrs. Bleakley mother of the little girl, and Mrs. Ora Thompson, grandmother, left for Kansas City. The attack on Clarence Belknap at the Bleakley home is the basis for the assault charge.