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12o ST. PETERSBURG TIMES TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1981 all at once," she said. On Nov. 26, two days after his namesake son was arrested in California on a Hernando County fugitive warrant, William Mansfield Sr. pleaded no contest to four of an original 40 sex charges.

His 30-year sentence may have ended a criminal history that began 36 years ago in Cadillac, where he was arrested and ultimately acquitted of a charge of assault with intent to commit rape on a 13-year-old girl. A year later, in 1947, he began serving a 5- to 20-year sentence for armed robbery in his native Michigan. Paroled four years later, he was returned to prison in November 1962 for violation of parole in connection with a rape charge lodged against him in Reno, Nev. In the ensuing 19 years, the elder Mansfield was arrested at least five more times on charges ranging from disorderly conduct and reckless use of firearms to assault and battery. LIKE HIS FATHER, Billy Mansfield Jr.

had his first brush with the law when he was charged with sex-related offenses in Grand Rapids, Mich. home for the Mansfield family until they moved to Weeki Wachee Acres in 1973. Also like his father, Mansfield's first adult arrest ended in acquittal when the jury refused to believe that one man could force two women into performing immoral 'acts. Mansfield was 18 then and had been married nine months to his 16-year-old bride, who was four months pregnant with Billy III. The couple were divorced in 1979, Mansfiold from 1-B appeared to be a member of a motorcycle gang.

She taid the would be back. WITNESSES TOLD police they had teen the woman with Billy Mansfield who reportedly lived for a while at the Bamboo Trailer Haven, juit up Hillsborough Avenue from the liquor lounge. Like the Wataonville, Calif, housewife Mansfield is accused of killing, Sandra Graham had been strangled. Neither of the other skeletons has been identified, although forensic experts last week reconstructed probable likenesses of their faces from their skulls. Investigators say one of the two died from blows to the head and face from a blunt object.

No charges have been filed in any of those deaths, although Hernando County Sheriffs Lt John Whitman declares, "Billy Mansfield is my prime No. 1 suspect." Even Billy's mother, 49-year-old Virginia Mansfield, is expecting the worst "They've told me over and over my son put them (the skeletons) there. I've heard it so much I'm at a point where I'm wondering, 'Is it In an April interview, after investigators had concluded their search, Mrs. Mansfield, mother of seven, reflected on a year in which two of her sons were jailed in connection with the California murder, her husband was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex crimes involving adolescent girls and an 18-year-old son sentenced to three years in prison on a burglary charge. "IT SEEMS LIKE my whole world went to pieces and Phyllis Mansfield lives in Grand Rapids with her son, a first-grader now, and a daughter.

On Jan. 31, 1977, three years after his acquittal, Mansfield pleaded guilty to criminal sexual conduct involving a 16-year-old. He was sentenced to six months in jail and put on three years probation. A year later he was picked up again, after two teenagers told Grand Rapids police he had raped them at knifepoint His probation was revoked and once again he was in a Michigan jail, this time facing a life sentence on the two rape charges. But Mansfield shared a cell there with an accused murderer, which proved fortuitous for Mansfield when he agreed to testify against the man in exchange for a reduction of the rape charges.

THE MAN WAS convicted of murdering an 11-year-old and Mansfield's sentence was one year. With credit for the time he had spent in jail waiting to go to trial on the rape charges, Mansfield was turned loose in February 1980. Now Mansfield is again facing a life sentence; this time there are no deals. Still, there is little hard evidence linking him to the murder of Rene Saling. A thread California investigators found on a pair of his corduroy pants matches threads from Mrs.

Saling's blouse, but it's hardly the stuff convictions are usually made of. Santa Cruz Sheriffs Sgt. Bruce Simpson agrees. "If there had been some blood or if we had found a bit of her clothing in the car that would have nailed it down good," he said. Prosecutor Hopkins likewise concedes his case is "circumstantial." From what is publicly known of the prosecution case in California preliminary hearings and much evidence can be kept secret Hopkins can place Mrs.

Saling and Mansfield together in the Wooden Nickel and together in the car. The prosecutor supposedly can also show that the brothers packed their belongings in trash bags and fled their campground in separate vehicles, abandoning their litter-strewn trailer. They left their green Tornado in Sacramento and took their white van east on Route 80, the transcontinental highway linking Chicago with the West Coast. THE BROTHERS were finally stopped by a rookie police officer in the small desert town of Winemucca, Nev. Dec.

10, three days after Mrs. Saling's body was discovered, i While Mansfield is in jail on $250,000 bail, brother Gary is being held on $5,000 and is scheduled to go to trial Aug. 10 in Santa Cruz. But that date is likely to be changed because of his brother's trial. Should his brother be found not guilty, charges against Gary could be dropped altogether.

Regardless of the outcome of the trial, Billy still faces charges in Hernando County stemming from an alleged attack on 18-year-old Pam Sherrell. It was a warrant on that charge that led Santa Cruz police to arrest him following a routine check Nov. 24. ..1 B'J 7 City Toon-cfjcro hold aftor woman dioo of heart attack in brawl from 1-B AtMciMad Pru said, and Mrs. Childers intervened.

The victim's husband, John Childers, said the fight began after a group of customers bumped the table where the family was seated, spilling hot chocolate on their young granddaughter. Mrs. Childers was attacked and struck repeatedly in the face, according to the witnesses. Her husband and two men with the family tried to break up the fight and were injured. "The more I tried to get them off my mom, the crazier they got," said the Childers' daughter.

Deputies and ambulance attendants attempted to revive Mrs. Childers, who was pronounced dead at Orlando Regional Medical Center minutes after her arrival. The sheriffs department is still investigating the case, said Dean Smith, an investigator for the medical examiner's office. ORLANDO Two teen-agers have been charged with manslaughter after a weekend restaurant brawl left a 58-year-old woman dead of a heart attack. Christopher Foster and Sharon Grune-wald, both 18, were jailed Sunday following the death of Mary Rose Childers, 68, who suffered from a heart condition and became ill after being beaten in the restaurant fight, deputies said.

Charges were pending against a third person, a juvenile. Witnesses told deputies that Mrs. Childers, her husband, a daughter, granddaughter and two friends went to a Kry-stal fast-food restaurant shortly after midnight Sunday en route to their home in Melbourne. Mrs. Childers' daughter, Jennifer, 25, became embroiled in a scuffle with other customers in the restaurant, witnesses TOURISTS BY THE thousands flock to the city's beaches or stroll the Pacific Garden Mall, a valiant and successful effort to keep businesses downtown.

It's the mall just now that has has sparked a heated public debate: business leaders have lined up to demand that the police clean up the so-called "crazies" who backpack into town every summer. These transients plop their bedrolls on the beaches, in the woods or on the city's park benches. During the day they panhandle, perform or sell homemade wares along the mall, smoking whatever weed happens to be available at the moment. IN ADDITION, Santa Cruz and its sister city, the more widely known Mon-terey, are fighting to prevent oil compa- nies from drilling offshore. The city has tough zoning laws that have kept the beaches undeveloped, the boardwalk and amusement park intact and the freeways out.

Builders must provide housing for low- and moderate-income people if they want to build at all, and then their plans are subjected to intense scrutiny for aesthetics as well as building code compliance. Yet Santa Cruz is an expensive place i to live, as are most college towns without an industrial base. The few poor who do live within the city limits have owned 1 their homes for years. The others live in a handful of mobile home parks or have moved south to Wataonville, where the reach of San Francisco is just beginning to be felt. Store fire listed as 'suspicious' Fire inspectors searched Monday for the cause of a blaze that caused damage estimated at $350,000 to the Affordable Furniture Mart of Clearwater.

"Right now, it's classified as a suspicious fire," inspector Nick Lewis said as he emerged from a sealed storeroom in which the fire apparently started Saturday night. Lewis said he found "no accidental cause in this fire." Once inspectors eliminate the possibility of an accident, they begin checking for signs of arson, he said. Travel expenses under scrutiny Clearwater Housing Authority members raised their eyebrows in astonishment Monday as they reviewed travel bills of Michael Gray, the authority's executive director. Included was a bill for a vacation trip that Gray and his wife took to Dallas last September. Gray charged the $364 airline fare on the authority's account, and it is still unclear whether he repaid any of the money.

Gray took full responsibility for the questionable travel budget items. On a trip to Charleston, S.C., last November, Gray had taxpayers foot the bill for shoeshines, books and newspapers and repairs of a coat, according to the travel voucher. Gray also said he charges the authority for movies that he sees during business trips. "I don't think I've gone to a conference," he said, "where I haven't gone to a movie." Shot back Katharine Griffith, chairman of the authority's audit and accounting committees: "I don't expect the housing authority to pay to have my hair done before a conference." Griffith said her committee would evaluate Gray's spending. Developments proposed in Pasco Two big residential developments are in the works for western Pasco County.

One, Salt Springs Run, is being proposed for 609 acres, some of which are in the Port Richey city limits. It will lie directly behind and to the south of Gulfview Square Mall. The second project, 640 acres, is proposed for a site east of U.S. 19 and abutting the Pasco-Hernando County line. That is near Spring Hill.

Both projects will include land set aside for recreational and commercial purposes. Sinkhole opens up at Ocala college campus Unritd Pr Intf mtloml determine the danger of its growing larger. Authorities blocked off a little-used loop road that goes past the sinkhole. In addition to the vocational building, several other structures built last year were in the vicinity of the sinkhole. Officials blamed the sinkhole's appearance on the drought and the sudden weight of water caused by a recent downpour from a thunderstorm.

OCALA A 20-by-30-foot wide sinkhole opened up Monday on the west end of the Central Florida Community College campus, endangering a new vocational building only 20 feet. away. Officials said the hole measured about 10 feet deep but cracks around it indicated it might enlarge. They planned to make test borings today in an attempt to LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE Funds from 1-B NTDCS OF subsidies moved into those white areas. By 1976, when the special census was taken, a number of minorities had already moved into the white areas.

So the city's current totals don't look as good in comparison. Mary Carroll, of the city's urban redevelopment department, said she thinks it fair that the city used the earlier figures to its advantage. HUD itself used the 1970 census when calculating the totals it wants cities to meet, and no other cities use the later census in their grant applications, she said. This week's action allows the city to apply for the grant. HUD officials will now weigh the worth of St.

Petersburg's convention center plan against proposals from other cities competing for the limited number of grants. white households than the city's initial figures. The city came out looking better because the second data compared 1970 census figures on the numbers of minorities in different areas to current figures. The original figures submitted used numbers from a special 1976 census for comparison. Over the 10-year span, minority families have moved into many areas of the city, although many of those families aren't getting federal help to pay their rents.

Also, more families who do get rent subsidies moved into areas that the 1970 census identified as white. Last year, 87 of 171 minority families that began receiving rent Murder from 1-B After his arrest, it was learned that Rinehart was a runaway delinquent from Eastern Pennsylvania State School and Hospital, from which he had twice escaped. During a pretrial hearing, psychiatrist Joseph Mitchell testified that Rinehart had shown "an uninterrupted history of mental illness" since the age of 9, when he tried to hang himself. "There is nothing normal about this boy nothing," Mitchell testified. However, a psychologist and a psychiatrist both testified at his trial that Rinehart knew right from wrong at the time of the child's murder and a jury convicted him after 95 minutes of deliberation.

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