· He came in on the afternoon train. He was contacted by a female, but he didn’t know where the house was. He had to go into town and ask some people. It was reported that the suspect asked about the location of the Hudson home at several businesses.

· He came in and went out the front door. It was reported by neighbors that the suspect approached the Hudson’s while they were on their front porch on the night of the murders and that they admitted him into their home.

· I don’t really see it being an axe, it was like a claw hammer but bigger. A tool of some kind. The murder weapon was first thought to be a coal pick but was later thought to be a brick mason’s hammer. The murder weapon was never found so the exact tool used is unknown.

· I get the name Musick. I’m not sure what this is. Also a business like Frisco or Cisco.
Rollin Hudson, worked for Charles Musick at the M.K.&T. He had quit this job to go to work at the Frisco coal chutes where he was suppose to report on Thursday morning. Mr. Musick and wife were neighbors of the Hudson’s, as were Mr. & Mrs William Pryor. Mr. Pryor was a night watchman at the Frisco Coal Chutes. It was Mrs. Musick and Mrs. Pryor who were instrumental in discovering the murders. The railroad depot was also called the Frisco Depot.

· There were two businesses that he went to. He came in the afternoon. The first thing that he did was walk through town, got himself something to eat. He went to a store or somewhere called Frisco or Cisco. The name Musick comes in again. A hardware store and another type of store where he stopped and made small talk. The newspapers reported that he asked about the Hudson’s at several businesses in town.

· He came in by train, something M.T. or K.T. The train is M.K.T, that’s the name I’m getting. I might have the letters mixed up. Mr. Hudson worked for the M.K.T. railroad so this train would have had a route that included Paola.

· I’m wrong about the woman. The husband and wife had been fighting for awhile…fighting. Newspapers report that Mr. and Mrs. Hudson were known to quarrel and had quarreled frequently.

· When Mansfield did this, he did it alone. This was an easy one.

· When he got off the train, he did not go up the street they lived on. He went straight downtown on the main street. He didn’t go to the house first. Absolutely, he went downtown.

· He’d been in town one other time before. He came through here 2 or 3 times.

· I see a man. He talked to the man. The man worked for the railroad. The man that got killed worked for the railroad.

· Mansfield talked to this man before. He overheard him talking. Him and his wife were fighting. They weren’t doing well. They were having problems. Ronald, Ronald, Rollin. The man’s name is Rollin. I think that’s close, Rollin. Mansfield said that he had talked to him before. He came back through. He came back through here 3 times…3 times he’d been to this little town. The 3^rd time is when he did the murders. He got hired. He was hired. The man paid him to kill his wife…but he changed his mind. He didn’t want his wife killed but it was too late. The man wants his wife to go back to Ohio…Idaho or maybe Oklahoma.

· Hud…Hud…what’s Hud? Hannah is the wife’s name. Hannah…Anna…Hannah…Anna….Hud. The female victim’s name was Anna Hudson.

· Mansfield met the man at the railroad. The man worked at the railroad. He met him there. Heard the man tell another man that he was going to send his wife away…he needed to get rid of her…something about he thought she had an affair with someone. He asked her to leave…she didn’t want to leave. Newspaper accounts give testimonies of neighbors who were told by Rollin Hudson that his wife was unfaithful.

· There were some papers involved in this. The man had some papers or a letter with him. Nothing was stolen. There was a letter. A letter is mentioned in the newspaper reports as being shown to one of the neighbors. Rollin was upset about the letter. The contents of the letter were not revealed and the letter could not be found. An affinity letter was later found but alibis were established. MPR does not believe this is the same letter that Misty was referring to.

· After he came into town and asked directions to the house, neighbors across the street saw him…but he had a fast pace…he did have a weapon with him inside his jacket…he was alone…nobody with him. He had made plans with the man of the house. He had been through here 3 times on train. One of the times when he was wasting some time…while the train stopped…he heard the man talking about wanting his wife to leave, getting rid of his wife because she had been unfaithful…he wanted her to…..the husband is going to be out of town. He wanted his wife killed…the night Mansfield showed up at the house.

· There is a letter. The man wrote a letter…talking about how his wife was unfaithful. There was a letter he was going to mail to Mansfield….that’s why Mansfield had to come back…the man cancelled him wanting to kill his wife…they were doing okay. Mansfield went to the house. The man met him and told him "No, to go and leave, that he didn’t need him." Mansfield said "No, I need to come in. We have to talk. You hired me. You already paid me for this. I have to talk to you anyway." Neighbors observed a man fitting the description of the suspect approach the Hudson’s on their front porch on the night the murders were committed. They also saw him invited into the house.

· He says to tell you, Brenda, that "No, he was not told to kill the children. He told you that once before that once he started, he couldn’t stop doing it." This statement refers back to Villisca.

· You were talking to a man…you were upset…you were afraid they’d find out who you were and what you’d be doing. Misty later indicated that Mansfield felt the letter he sent back to Hudson stating that he would do the job was incriminating evidence and wanted it returned to him.

· Mansfield left the house after the man and him argued. Mansfield said "That’s okay. It’s over." Then left the house and went down to the railroad. The man watched him to make sure he left on the next train out. The man went to bed…him and his wife.

· Mansfield did not get the letter. The man said he got rid of the letter because he didn’t want his wife to know that he was going to have something done to her because she was causing a lot of heartache and money….something to do with money and cheating…having affairs.

· They didn’t have a lot of money. According to the newspapers, the house was scantily furnished.

· The man and his wife go to bed. Mansfield comes back. Came in through the back of the house…in through the kitchen…he still had his weapon with him the whole time. Mansfield put the blankets over their heads and bashed the man’s head in with a hammer, like a claw hammer but it’s not like a hammer. It’s not like an axe but he hits him on the right side of the head, back of the head.

· No one sent him here. He was going somewhere else to do something, he stopped through here going to the other place. Was there someone murdered in Wyoming? Cold, snow, on his way, that’s when he stopped by here. Stopped to talk to the man. He offered his services to the man here, Rollin Hud….Hud…Hud. The man wanted his wife killed but changed his mind when it came to the night to do it. It was strange that Misty mentions Wyoming here. A man had signed his name as Roy Adams in Wyoming when boarding a train heading east. This man was carrying mining tools with him. Roy Adams was a former sweetheart of Mrs. Hudson and was the cause of many of their problems. Mr. Adams was able to establish an alibi in Ohio on the night of the murders. Did Mansfield come from Wyoming and use the name of Mrs. Hudson’s former sweetheart in an attempt to frame him for the murders? Was the affinity letter also part of the plan to frame him? Was framing the former sweetheart a plan devised by Rollin as revenge?

· He was invited into the house. They talked, he left. He came back. He was sent by someone else, but it wasn’t here.

· The wife woke up and saw what was happening. She got hit 7 or 8 times, there were holes in her face and head. Blood everywhere, dripping off the bed, the whole bedroom area was thick of blood. He covered their heads. He hit them again after he covered them. The man was the first one to get hit. He didn’t even know it so he must have been sound asleep. The wife heard the noise, she woke up, he pushed her down, he hit her in the head, covered her and then hit her some more. For some reason he didn’t want blood on him this time. He did not want blood on him. Due to the injuries that Anna received, it was thought that she did wake up during the murder. It was reported that she had holes in her face and that both she and Rollin received some blows after the coverlet was placed over their heads. See newspaper accounts for details.

· He said he got careless in Villisca. There were so many people and he wasn’t paying attention because Harry had him so…..Harry was just in the way.

· He covered the windows, the mirrors, it’s a ritual for him to do that…so he can’t see his own….

· They didn’t find the weapon. He said he took it with him. A thorough search for the weapon was conducted but a weapon was never found.

· The papers….everything…the man had wrote him and asked him…he was going to mail the letter to Mansfield. It stated on what day…what time…specifics…The man mailed the letter….okay, okay…..Mansfield wrote him back….the letter came to the railroad where the man worked.

· Katlin (Mansfield’s 2^nd wife) knew about all the murders. She knew about this one, the Villisca ones and a 3^rd one. This one shouldn’t have happened.

· Dee Ann asked if he was involved with any of the other murders that occurred during the same time frame. He only did 4 locations, he says, and Katlin knew about all of them. Small town, cold, snow, his wife’s family was the last one.

· Dee Ann asked if he knew anything about Monmouth, Illinois. No, he said he only did 4. He said you’re not listening.

· Dee Ann asked if he was hired for the other murders? Not for his wife. The only one he was hired for was Villisca and one out west. He was hired for this one but he was hired by the man to do this one.

· The letter Mansfield wanted was why he came back. It had all the information about the planned murder. He did not find the letter. Misty indicated that Mansfield felt Rollin Hudson knew too much about him and had become a big risk. That’s why he had to kill him. If Rollin had the letter, he could use it as evidence against him.

· He was involved in Paola, one where it was cold and snowy, Villisca and his 1^st wife.

· He did his 1^st wife and family because she knew about the murders. Her and Katlin had argued. The wife’s child was not his. She threatened to expose him for the murders. He’s really sorry for that. He should not have killed them but that was the way it was back then. Katlin says that he was a good man. He was good to her.

· Brenda asked if he was a hired political assassin: He wouldn’t give it that name. He wasn’t an assassin. Two of the murders were political hires…Villisca and the one out west.

· Brenda asked if there was a political ring that contacted him: One person who he used to work with. He was approached by 4-5 men who offered him the job. They said he would get to travel and get paid to do this.

· Brenda asked how many people he killed: 18. He wants you to know that the children bothered him but Katlin helped him get through most of that. All of this had to do with a man wanting to kill his wife. She was going to blackmail him. It was not political. Don’t try to make something out of it that it’s not.

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PSYCHIC READINGS

Misty's Reading, Paola KS

Joyce's Reading, Paola KS

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Murderer Came In The Night  (Western Spirit, June 14, 1912)

Found The Affinity Letter?  (Western Spirit, June 14, 1912)  

Fiendish Double Murder  (Miami Republican, June 14, 1912) 

No Clew To Hudson Murder  (Western Spirit, June 21, 1912)