The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-06-15
v. MANSFIELD OR
INSANE BLACKIE'
rs UNDER ARREST FOR THE NO
ToRIoUs AK MURDERS.
WAS CAUGHT AT KANSAS CITY
Found Working in the cochrane Pack.
ing Plant by Burns Detectives
This Morning. Warrants Is
sued at ViilIsca, la.

Kansas City, Mo-, June 14.-WflIiam
Mansfield, alias Insane Blackie" want
ed for 16 AK murders, is In Jail here.
He was captured at Cochrane Packing
plant by Burns detectives and local
police through story and a photo
graph of the AK murder suspect pub
lished in the paper recently. G. G, He'd
rick of Swift Packing Co. police recog.
niZed him by the photograph as a
former employee of the company. o.
T. Gillett, prosecuting attorney of
Montgomery county. Iowa. arrived i'm
Kansas City this morning to arrange
eXtradition papers for Mansfield Sher-
i'll Jackson will arrive this afternoon
with q warrant
Illinois Wants Suspect.
Blue Island, Illinois police authori-
ties CT was in Blue Island that Mans
fields Wife infant daughter, father
and mother-in-law were killed. also
have field claims for the murder sus-
pect This morning, after an all night
sweat in jail, Insane Blackie" was
left alone after telling many contrary
stories. Detectives were employed in
the Villisca case by Attorney General
Cosson of Iowa. After weeks work
was member of a party of campers
near Villisca in 1912 and overheard
the Moores murder planned. She said
that one prominent Chicago crook was
employed to plan the murder and he
was to get some one else to do the ac-
tual work. Mansfield, drug fiend and
convict was working in Villisca at
the time of the murder and is alleged
to have threatened the woman witness
when he heard she had been talking.
In the search for Mansfield detectives
stumbled onto the fact that Blue Is
land ak victims were his wife, baby,
father and mother-in law Both crimes
committed were identical
Other Crimes Recalled.
Further investigation disclosed he
was at Paola, Kansas and Aurora. ILL.,,
when AK murders were committed
there. For months the search went on
for him. Circulars in political cam
paign in VilIisCa proved sufficient to
warn him should he see it. Mansfield
admits relation to the Blue Island VIC
about the murder.
Wanted in CHICAGO Too.
Chicago, June 14.-William Mans
neIu nelu III Kansas CITY as suspect
in the VillisCa ak murder is not want
ed for the ak murder in Blue Island,
Ill. in 1914, the police say. The convict
ed slayer Of the Blue Island victims is
now in the penitentiary.
Warrants Issued by ViIIisca.
Vilisca, Ia, June IA John Doe
warrant was issued from the district
court at Red Oak for the arrest of the
person who committed eight murders
in the family of J. b. Moore of Willis
ca, June 9, 1912. 1t Is believed that
the officials have a definite idea at
last of the perpetrator of this crime
and that of similar ak murders COM
mitted in Kansas and Illinois.
In an investigation the authorship
of anonymous letters mailed from
Kansas the Saturday before the Iowa
primary election, addressed to nearly
a score of people in Montgomery
county, in which the writer of the
letters attacked a citizen of the coun
ty, it is said, has partially disclosed
the perpetrator of the ak murders.
The warrant was issued at the re-
quest of a Kansas City detective
agency and names William Mansfield.
alias Insane Blake" ex-soldier, ex-
convict and dope user, as the perpet
ratOr of the crime.