The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-07-31

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 destruction of a postal which gave
the address of Vending in Vallejo,
Cal
Mrs. Muena had destroyed her other
correspondence with Vending and
was on the point of burning the pos
tal when the Louisville police Off
clal arrived
Tried 10 Burn Letter,
When the address was flashed 10
San Francisco Detective Burke was
at once sent TO Vallejo In the house
of Alice Miller. with whom Vending
had been living. he found the fugi-
tiye's photograph and complete kit
of burglar tools. a further search OF
the place led TO the discovery Of many
articles which had been taken from
tho residence OF Thomas Saunders,
which had been burglarized three
times. This was the house formerly
occupied by Charles Wldemann. for
whom Wendling worked as gardener
Vending was soon traced to this
city. but the detectives were thrown
off the track by strange double. who
left suit case In a deserted house in
The north beach foreign quarter The
death by his own hand of this suspect
two days ago again left the detectives
without the scent, but they caught II
again when Captain OF Detectives Wall
received tip Thursday night that the
fugitive was in a Third street room
Ing house The number given proved
TO be Il vacant lot. Next door, how
ever. was lodging house frequcnted
by laboring mon Mrs. Mary Moriari-
~, the owner Of the house, declared
that man answering Weddings de-
scription had been there, but had left
n few days before. The detectives
were still suspicious and after watch
Ing the house for % hours determined
this morning TO make a search Their
Efforts were rewarded by the discov-
cry of Vending crouched beneath
the sink of a wash room Dragged
forth he did not make the slightest
resistance. and when the bullet wound
In his hand and the tattooed ship on
his arm were exposed by his captors
he readily admitted his identity.
Protests Innocence
On lUe arrival oil the uelecllNeS WIN
Vending at the city prison, Chief OF
Police Martin and District Attorney
Fickert were summoned. With the
detectives these two officials remained
closeted for an hour with the prison
er He protested his innocence of the
Kellner murder. declaring that he
knew nothing of II until he read of the
finding Of the body. Vending main
tanned that he had adopted the name
of his mother TO avoid his brother-in-
law, Louis Arnold. who had pursued
him from France to make him marry
Madeline Arnold That the bitter
ness between the two men has grown
since the marriage until he feared for
his life was the explanation clung 10
by Vending in explaining his flight
Vending told Captain Carney that he
would not resist eXtradition and the
latter said that be would start for
home with his prisoner as soon as
he is rested from his strenuous chase
4 delay by a train wreck of one day
on his return from Hume kept Carney
from being in at the arrest and he
was fifty miles from this city when
Vending was taken into custody.
Circumstances Evidence,
According to Captain Carney. the
evidence against Vending is very
strong, The strongest link was the
discovery of some Of the girls bloody
clothing I'm closet i'm Weddings
home
This with other c.rcumstantial eyi-