The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-26
BLoNDlN FINALLY TAKEN
UNFXPEOTEDLY CAPTURED IN NER
 FORK YESTERDAY.
but Professes to Know Nothing of the Killing of Ills Wffe-Went to Police Headquarters tO Get an Engineers License and Was Discovered

License and Was Discovered.
 New York, Feb. 25.-Joseph Wilfrid
 Blondin, who is charged with the mur-
 der of his wife by cutting off her head
 at Chelmsford, near Boston, Mass, last June, was arrested here to-day. He
 was identified by detective from Bos- 1 ton while he was making application cense. The prisoner admitted his iden- tity but professed to know nothing of the killing of his wife.
 Yesterday Blondin called at the bu-
 reau of boiler inspection at police head
 quarters, to apply for an engineers l-
 cense. He evidently did not notice his
 own picture posted on the wall with
 the usual announcement of reward
 for his apprehension. The similarity
 between the portrait and the face of
 the applicant caught the eye of
 roundsman, who slipped out and npti-
 fled Captain Titus of the detective bu-
 reau Captain Titus requested him to tell the man to call again to-day and
 telegraphed to Boston for a detective who could identify the man. When Blondin returned this morning he was instantly recognized by the Boston de- tective, at a signal from whom four policemen threw themselves on him and secured him before he could offer any resistance.
 In court the prisoner was remanded to await eXtradition papers. At head quarters he declared that he last saw his wife while he was seeing her off from the station at Boston. Hearing later of the discovery of her body he feared, he said, that he would be ac- cused of the murder and fled to New York. He said he had lived in Brook lyn, Mount Vernon and White Plains | and had made several trips as a coal passer on North German Lloyd | steamer When arrested he said that | he was endeavoring to obtain the po- | sition of engineer in hotel in which | he worked.
 Boston, Feb. 25.-The arrest of J. Wilfrid Blondin the suspected wife ends one of the most persist ant searches ever made by police au- thorities, especially those of New York and this city.
 The man had been a fugitive since last June, when the headless body of his wife was found in the woods at Mass. The body was found June g. Two days later the missing portion was found in a brook some dis ,ance away from the place where the body had been.
 The police learned that Mrs. Blondin md her husband had lived in lodging louse in this city Subsequent investi- cations disclosed evidence which led to he theory that in fit of passion due to ealousy the woman's husband had trangled her. and concealing the body n a trunk, had taken it to Chelmsford t night To prevent Identification it vas thought the head was cut off and brown into the brook and the body hid en in the woods.
 Blondin was an engineer. When the olice went to his place of business hey found that he had left the night efore and then the chase began which as lasted until to-day The authorities were only few hours ehind the man when they started out, ut clue after clue was run out in vain. f aspects were arrested in various parts | f the country and Canada, but none c reviously proved to be the one wanted he Identification by a Boston officer l New York to-day is considered con- Iusive.
 State Officer Sidney F. Letteney left q lis city for New York this afternoon il