Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-31
Captain Carney at Last Runs Down
Suspected Man.
INSISTS THAT HE IS INNOCENT
Alleged Murderer Admits His Identity
but Changes Name,
DEcoY LETTER DOES GOOD WORK
Prisoner is Found Hiding Beneath n
Sink I'm the Wash Room of
Cheap Lodging
House.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.-Dragged from
beneath the sink in the washroom of
Third street lodging house in this city,
where he had been hiding for twenty-four
hours, Joseph A. Vending was arrested to-
day by Detectives Burke and Ryan of the
local police department Vending admitted
his identity, but protested his innocence
A few hours after the arrest, Captain of
Detectives ]. p. Carney Of Louisville ar
rived, to learn that his II, ,0O0-mile search
for Vending had been crowned with sue
cess. 1t was the final telegraphed tip
from the Kentucky detective which led to
the capture. In his relentless pursuit of
the supposed murderer, lasting for four
months, Carney many times lost the TRAIL
but the secret of the whereabout of his
quarry always lay with Mrs. Cora Muena, a
milllner of Hume, Mo. 1t was from her
homo that Carney flashed the information
that led to the arrest
1t seemed the irony of fate that the only
respectable woman found by Carney to
have been connected with Vending uurh.g
his wanderings should have been the un-
conscious. means of betraying him.
Mrs. Muena met Vending al the home Of
her aunt in Houston, Tex, and before she
returned to Hume she was engaged 20 the
dashing young Frenchman, who dazzled
the aunt with tales of his 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
l'after her return to Hume she broke the en-
gagement.
Trail Lost in Texas.
When Carney received the clue that
Vending was working for a grocer in
Houston the detective began the long
search which led him to every county seat
! in Texas. At Houston he found that
Wendiing had fled to Saa Antonio, where
! he had obtained a position on a ranch
| near that town, but the hunted man had
fled, leaving some of his effects behind.
Here Carney lost the trail.
Returning to Houston the detective sent
/ a decoy letter, ostensibly written by the
aunt OF Mrs. Muena asking for the address
| OF Henry Jaoquemin, the name assumed by
/ Vending when he left Louisville. The re-
ply, intercepted by Carney, informed him
that his prey was in Los Angeles. The de-
tectives trip to Los Angeles proved fruit
| less and he returned to San Antonio, where
he found that Henry Picard, friend OF
! Vending, had received picture postal
card from the fugitive This communica-
ton. written in French, was postmarked
Rio Vista, Cal.
Abandoning his Texas hunting grounds
Carney came Immediately to this city where
he procured the assistance Of the local de-
| tective bureau. Accompanied by Detective
Conlin, he went to Rio Vista, and found
the man had fled, leaving behind him. how.
ever, his name on the payroll of company
which was building ietties along the Sacra.
mento 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
destruction of postal which gave thC
address of Vending in Vallejo, Cal
Letters Are Destroyed.
Mrs. Muena had destroyed her correspond
ence with Vending and was on the poin
of burning the postal when the Louisvill,
police official arrived When the address
was flashed TO San Francisco, Detectiv,
Burke was at once sent to Vallejo. In tn,
possession OF Alice Miller, with whom
Vending had been living he found tn,
fugitive's photograph and a complete XII
Of burglar tools. A further search Of tn,
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