The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-07-31
POLICE CATCH
LOUISVILLE
SUSPECT
JOSEPH WENDliNG, WANTED FOR
MURDER IN KENTUCKY,
RUN TO EARTH.
ADMITS HIS IDENTITY
Long Search Of Captain Carney Of
Louisville Ends Successfully IN
0rimy Lodging House in California
Port-woman Responsible for Ar
re5t-Convietion Probable.

Port-Womsn Responsible for Ar
re5t-Convietion Probable.
san Francisco. july 20 DRAGGED
from beneath sink in the washroom
of Third street lodging house Ia
this city. where he had been hidden
for - hours Joseph a Wenhing. ac-
cused of the murdcr Of little Alma
kellncr In Louisville. Ky. aud whose
twistings and turnngs have baffled
| the police for four months. was ar
rested today by Detectives Burke aud
Ryan Of the local police department
vending admitted his identity. but
protested his innocence Of the crime.
a few hours after the arrest Cap
tain OF Detectives J. =. Carney. of
Louisville. arrived To- learn that his
il,000-mile search for Vending had
been crowned with success. II was
The final telegraphed tip OF the Ken
lucky detective that led To the cap
ture.
In his relentless pursuit of the sup
posed murderer Carney many times
lost the trail. but the secret OF tho
whereabouts Of his quarry always lay
with Mrs. Cora Muena mllliner. OF
Hume. Missouri II was from her that
Carney flashed the information that
led to the arrest
Woman Gives Clue.
II seemed the irony OF fate that the
] only al IL, 4.
| ney to have been connected with
Vending during his wanderings should
have been the unconscious means of
( betraylng him.
/ Mrs. Muena met Vending at tho
/ home of her aunt In Houston. Texas.
and before she returned 10 Hume she
was engaged to the dashlng young
Frenchman. Nho dazzled the aunt With
tales OF the wealth In France. which
would come 10 him with the death 90
his aged father. Before Mrs Muena
left Houston she grew TO fear Wcnd-
ling. and after her return to Hume
she broke the engagement
A Lost Trail.
When Carney received the clue that
Vending was working for a grocer
In Houston. the detective began "A
long search which led him 10 every
county seat IN Texas. At Houston
he found that Vending had fled Ia
San Antonio, where he had secured
a position on ranch % miles from
that town. A trip to the ranch proved
abortive az the hunted man had fled.
leaving some OF his effects behind
Here Carney lost the trail
Returning to Houston. he sent "A
decoy letter. ostcnsibly written by thu
aunt to Mrs. Muena. The reply. in
tercepted by Carney. informed him
that his prey was Ia Los .Angeles
The detectives trip To Los Angeles
proving frultless. he returned 10 San
Antonio. where he found that Henry
Picard. friend of Vending had re-
ceived "a postal picture card from the
fugitive. This communication, writ
ten In French. was postnarked Rio
Vista. Cal Abandoning his Texas
hunting ground. Carney came imme-
diately to this city. where he secured
the aid Of the local detective bureau.
Accompanied by Detective Conlln, he
went to Rio Vista. but their man had
flown. leaving behind him. however.
his name on the payroll of company
which was building jetties along the
Sacramento river. Then the trail
again became so cold that Carney de-
| terrnined To- visit Mrs. Muena at her
| home In Hume. lie reached there
Just In time to prevent the destruction
OF postal which gave the address
Of Vending in Vallejo. Cal Mrs
Muena had destroyed her other cor
respondence with Vending and was
on the point Of burning the postal
when the Louisville police official ar
rived" When the address was flashed
to San Francisco, Detective Burke 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 a com
plete kit of burglar tools. further
search Of the place led To the. discoT-
cry of many articles which had been
taken from the residence OF Thomas
Saunders, which had been burglar yed
three times This was the house tor.
merly occupied by Charles Widemann,
for whom Vending worked az
gardener
Another Break,
Vending was soon traced Ia this
city. but the detectives were thrown
off the track 10y strange. double. who
left suitcase in deserted house la
the North Beach foreign quarter The
death by his own hand OF this sus
pect two days ago again left the de-
.