New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
VENDING CHASE ENDS.
AIIeued Murderer of Alma kell-
ner Arrested in San Francisco.
WOMAN WAS HIS UND0lNG

WOMAN WAS HIS UNOOlNG
Young Frenchman, Who Desert
ed Wife in Louisville, Played
the Gallant.
San Francisco July 3o-Dragged from be-
meath a sink In the washroom of Sd street
lodging house where he had been hiding
for twenty-four hours. Joseph A Wend-
ling, accused Of the murder OF little Anna
KeIlner in Louisville, arrested TO-DAY
I,y Detectives Burke and Ryan of the local
notice department Vending admitted his
identify. but protested his innocence OF the
crime.
few hours after the arrest J. ?. Carney,
captain of detectives of Louisville. arrived,
To learn that his 11,0O0-mile search for
Vending had been crowned with success
II was the telegraphed aip from the Ken
tucky detective which led to the arrest
In his pursuit of the supposed murderer
Carney many times lost the trail, but 'he
secret of the whereabouts of his quarry al
wavs Law with Mrs Cora Muena, a nltiliner
of Hume Mo. I. was from her home that
Carney flashed the information that led 10
the arrest.
Mrs. Muena met Vending at the home of
her aunt in Houston. Tex, and before sne
returned to Hume She was engaged 10
marry the young Frenchman, who dazzied
the aunt with tales of wealth IN france
which would come 10 him with the death
of his aged father. Before Mrs Muena lett
Houston she grew to fear Vending ana
after her return to Hume she broke the
enga cement.
Begins Long Hunt in Houston
When Carney received the clew that
Vending was working for a grocer III
Houston the detective began the long
search which led him TO every county seat
in Texas At Houston he found that Wend-
ling had gone to San Antonio, where ne
had obtained employment on ranch
twenty-five miles from that town a trip
to the ranch proved frJitless, as the
hunted man had fed, leaving some of his
effects behind. Here Carney lost the tran
Returning to Houston. he sent decoy
letter. ostensfbIy written by the aunt, TO
Mrs. Muena, asking for the address OF
Henry Jacquemin, the name assumed by
reply, intercepted by Carney, Informed him
that Vending was in Los Angeles.
The detectives trip to Los Angeles proved
11navailing and he returned to San Antonio
where he found that Henry Picard, a
friend of Vending, had received picture
postal card from the fugitive This COM
munication. written in French, was post
marked Rio Vista, Cal.
iute fn
where he procured the assistance of the
local detective bureau. Accompanied by
Detective Conlin he went 10 Rio Vista, to
find that the man had disappeared again,
leaving behind him, however, his name on
the pay roll Of a company which was
building jettfes along the Sacramento
River. Then the trail again became so
cold that Carney determined to visit Mrs
Muena at her home in Hume. He reached
there just in time to prevent the destruc-
ton of a postal which gave the address
Of Vending in Vallejo, Cal. Mrs. Muena
had destroyed her correspondence with
Vending and was on the point of burning
the postal when the Louisville detective
arrived
Evidences of Rurglares.
When the address was flashed to San
Francisco Detective Burke was sent at
once to Vallejo. In the possession of Alice
Miller with whom Vending had been liv-
ing. he found the fugitive's photograph
and a kit Of burglars tools. further
search of the place led TO the discovery
of many articles which had been taken
from the home of Thomas Saunders.
which had been robbed three times. This
house was formerly occupied by Charles
| in
rs q gardener.
Vending was soon traced 70 this city,
but the detectives were thrown off the
track bv a strange double who left a suit
case in deserted house in the North
Beach foreign quarter The death by his
own hand of this man two days ago again
left the detectives without a clew. but
they caught the track again when Captain
of Detectives Wall received Il tip Thurs
Gay night that the fugitive was in Sd
street rooming house. The number given
proved to be q vacant lot, Next door,
however was a lodging house frequented
by laborins men.
Mrs Mary Moriarity the owner, said
that a man answering Weddings descrip-
ton had been there, but had departed a
few days before. The detectives were
skeptica1 and after watching the house
for tUenty-four hours determined this
morning to make a search. Their efforts
were rewarded by the discovery of Wen
ding beneath the sink Of washroom.
When the bullet scar in his hand and the
tattooed ship ON his arm were exposed by
the officers he admitted his identity.
On the arrival of the detectives with
Vending at the city prison Chief Of
Police Martin and District Attorney Flick
ert were summoned. With the detectives
these two officials remained closeted with
The prisoner for one hour He protested
his innocence of the kellner murder. de-
cIarins that he knew nothing of it until
he read of the finding of the body. Wen
ding maintained that he had adopted the
name of his mother 70 avoid his brother
in-law outs Arnold, who had pursued him
from France 70 make him marry Made
line Arnold That the bitterness between
the two men has grown since the marriage
until he feared for his life, was the ex-
p1snation given By Vending for his flight
Wort Resist Extradition.
Vending told Captain Carney that he
would not resist extradition and the latter
said he would start for home with his
prisoner as soon as he was rested from
his long chase a delay Of one day by
train wreck on his return from Hume kept