Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-07-31
DUPED WOMAN PUTS
DETECTIVE ON TRAIL
Man Charged With Killing e CHIT
year-old Child is Hunted ior Four
Months and His Love-making In
Texas Leads to capture-Found in
Lodging House Under Sink.
CBy Associated Press)

Dragged from beneath 3 sink in the
wash room OF Third street lodging
house, where he had been hiding for
"a hours, Joseph A. Vending. accused
of the murder Of little eight -year old
Alma Kellner, in Louisville. KY, the
man VINO has baffled the police Tor
four months. was arrested today by
Detectives Burke and Ryan, of the
local police department. Vending ad-
mitted his identity. bat protested his
innoncence Of the crime
A few hours after the arrest Captain
of Detectives J. p. Carney, of Louis
vile, arrived to learn that his 1i,U0U
mile search for Vending had been
crowned with success. Il was the
telegraphed tip from the Kentucky
detective which led TO the arrest.
Ip his pursuit of the supposed muir
derer, Carney many times lost the
trail, but the secret of the where
abouts of his quarry always lay with
Mrs. Cora Muena, miliiner of Hume.
Mo. 1t was from her home that Car
ney flashed the information that led
10 the arrest II seemed the irony OF
fate that the only respectable woman,
found by Carney 10 have been connects
ed with Vending during his wander
ings. should have been {he uncon-
to the arrest. Ii seemed thei rOny OF
scious means Of betraying him.
Engaged to Marry.
Mrs. Mnena met Vending at the
home of her aunt in Houston, Texas,
and before she returned To Hume
she was engaged to the dashing young
Frenchman. who dazzled the aunt with
tales of wealth in France which would
come to him with the death of his
aged father. Before Mrs. Muena left
Houston she grew TO fear Vending
and after her return to Hume, she
broke the engs cement.
Carney received clues that led him
to search for Vending in Houston
and San Antonio, Texas. then to Los
Angeles, Cal. and later to Rio vista,
Cal. but the detectives visits to an
the places proved fruiiiess. Finally
the tail became so cold that Carney
determined to visit Mrs. Muena at her
home in Hume. He reached there just
in time to prevent the destruction OF
a postal. which gave the address OF
N,1
She Has His Address.
Mrs. Muena had destroyed her cor
respondence with Vending and was
on the point of burning the postal
when The Louisville detective arrived.
When the address was flashed TO
San Francisco. Detective Burke was
sent at once to Vallejo. In the pos
session OF Alice Miller, with whom
Vending had been living. he found
the fugitives photo and XII; of burg
lar tools.
Vending was soon traced to this
CITY. but the detectives were here
thrown OF the track. bat they caught
IL again when Captain Of Detectives
wall received q tip Thursday nigh
that the fugitive wss in Third street
rooming hose.
Mrs. Mary Moriarity, the owner,
said that q man answering Weddings
description left a few days ago. The
detectives were skepticai and after
watching the house for 20 hours. de-
termined this morning TO make 6
search. Their efforts were rewarded
BY the discovery Of vending be-
meath the sink Of a wash room. When
the bullet wound In his hand and the
,attooted ship on his arm were ex-
posed BY the oficers. he admit. ed mis-
Identity.
Explains Fleeing.
To the authorities Vending pro
tested his innocence Of the Keliner
murder. declaring that he knew roth
ing Of II until he read Of the finding
Of the body. Vending maintained
that he had adopted the name OF his
mother to avoid his broiher-in4aw.
Louis Arnold. who bad pursued him
from France 70 make him m,rsy
Madeline Arnold. That che bitterness
between the two men bss grown since
the marriage rrin he feared for hts
life. vas the explanation chung 20 By