Show actor gentry must stay in prison harrisburg pa the state board of pardons has refused to recommend a pardon for james R gentry the actor who was convicted of the mur der of madge yorks an actress in philadelphia in 1896 the board in its I 1 decisions says that the reasons ad danced for clemency were insufficient gentry was first sentenced to be hanged tor the murder of the actress after a sensational trial actor friends and others came to his assistance and succeeded in having the sentence commuted to life imprisonment |