The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-08-06
MURDERER OF ALMA
KELLNER ARRESTED

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Angeles. The detectives trip to Los
Angeles proved fruitless and he re-
turned to San Antonio, where he
found that Henry Picard, friend OF
Vending had received a postal pic
ture card from Vending. This card
written in French was postmarked
Rio Vista, Cal. Carney came imme-
diately to San Francisco, where he
procured the assistance Of the local
detective bureau: Accompanied BY
deteetiue Gpnlin ne went to Rio Vista,.
but the man had fled, leaving be-
hind him, however, his name on the
pay roll of a company, which was
building jetties along the Sacramento
river. Then the trail again became
SO cold that Carney determined to
visit Mrs. Muena. He reached there
just in time to prevent the destruc-
ton of post card which gave the
address of Vending in Vallejo, Cal.
Mrs. Muena destroyed her correspon-
point of burning the postal card
when the Louisville detective arrived.
When the address was flashed to
San Francisco, Detectice Burk was
at once sent to Vallejo. In the pos
session of Alice Miller, with whom
Vending had been living, he found
the fugitive's photograph and COM
plete kit of burglars tooks. A furth-
er search of the place led to the dis
covery of many articles which had
been taken from the residence OF
Thomas Saunders, which had been
robbed three times and 1t was the
house formerly occupied by Charles
Whidmann, for whom Vending
worked as gardner.
Vending was soon traced to this
city, but the detectives were thrown
Off the track by strange double who
left a suit case in deserted house In
the north beach foreign quarters.
The death by his own hands of this
suspect two days ago again left tho
detectives without scent, but they
caught it again when Captain of De-
tectives Fall received tip that the
fugitive was in a Third street room
ing house.
The number given proved to be
vacant lot. Next door, however, was
a lodging house, frequented by labor
ing men.
Mrs Mary Moriarity, the owner OF
the house, declared that man ans
wering weddings description had
been there, but had left few days
before. The detectives were suspici-
Gus and after watching the house
twenty-four hours determined to
make search. Their efforts were
rewarded by the discovery of Wend-
ling crouched beneath the sink in
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.
On the arrival of the detectives
with Vending at the city prison
Chief Martin and District Attorney
Eickert were summoned. With the
detectives these two officials remain
ed closeted with the prisoner for one
hour. He protested his innocence OK
the Kellner murder, declaring that
he knew nothing of it until he read
of the finding of the body. Vending
maintained 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 bitterness between the two
men has grown since the marriage
until he feared for his life was the
clung to by Vending In
his flight.