The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-07-23
MAYOR JONES LEADS IN SEARCH
Blue Island Mayor Declares That Man
Suspected Of Crime was Married to
Sophia Smith Of Kenosha Early
in June-No Trace of Man Found.

Mayor Jones of Blue Island, H., and
several members of the detective force
of the city of Chicago, were in Keno
sha today seeking to secure the arrest
of Casimer Areiczewski, Russian Jew,
wanted at Blue Island for one of the
most sensational cases Of murder in the
history of Illinois. The murderer is
thought to be in hiding somewhere in
Kenosha and detectives were working
among the Russians Of the city today
in an effort to get some trace of the
man. He has been sought in many
places in the past ten days and the
officials believe that they are now at
work on lead which will result in
the man being arrested.
Areiczewski is charged with the muir
der of four people at Blue Island, ILL.,,
on the night of July 5th or the morn
ing of July 9th. The bodies, mutilat-
ed almost beyond recognition, were
found in the home OF Jacob Nesesla, a
laborer, who resided just out of Blue
Island. The murdered people included
Nesesla, his wife, Mrs. Joseph Mans
field, his daughter aged twenty-four
years, and the infant daughter Of Mrs.
Mansfield. The four people had evil
IDENTIFY been attacked with an ak and
they had been literally hacked to pieces
while they slept. The crime was not
discovered until twenty four hours af-
ter the four people had been killed and
since that time the entire detective
force of Cook county has been at work
seeking the murderer. It is thought
that the man was insane as conditions
at the house indicated that there had
been no attempt at robbery. There is
no direct evidence to connect the man
sought in Kenosha with the murders,
more than the fact that he had at one
time worked as laborer in the neigh
borhood of the Nesesla home. He dis
appeared on the day that the murder of
the four people was discovered and
since that time all efforts to get any
trace of him have been futile.
Now comes the connection of Keno
sha with the search for the supposed
maniac. just month before the muir
der of the four people Areiczewski de-
clared that he was coming to Kenosha
to be married and gave the name of
the young woman he was to marry as
"Sophia Smith. !" It was declared that
the wife's parents resided in Kenosha.
AS soon as the detectives took up the
search in Kenosha this morning they
inspected the marriage license records
of the county for many months back
but they failed to find the name of
the man soughtlor of Sophia Smith. -
Chief O'Hare put Police Officer Thad
Logan to work with the visiting de-
tectives in an effort to find the man
or the wife, but they found nothing
/ up to late hour this afternoon.
''This is a battling case,o said
Mayor Jones in discussing the search
for the Russian. 81 am certain that
the father and mother of the woman
that this man married are here in Ke-
nosh, but seeking them is like looking
for needle in a hay stack. 1t is pos
sible that the man we want is not in
Kenosha, but we feel certain that if
we can locate the parents of this WON
an he married a little over month
ago we will BIO a lot closer to the end
of our search. y
| 1t is not alleged that Areiczewski had
1
lived in Kenosha himself, but the peo-
| pie of Blue Island knew nothing of the
| history of the man before he came to
that city and it is thought probable
that he was one of the long list of Rus.
| sian immigrants who come to Kenosha
annually. Leaders among the Russians
! In Kenosha have declared their will
| ingness to assist the officials in every
possible way to locate and secure the
arrest of the suspected man.
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