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Show I HI LANDS . IN PRISON CELL Alleged Murderer of Alma ICell-iier ICell-iier of Louisville Caught in Sail Francisco. FINALLY RUN TO EARTH AFTER A LONG CHASE Admits His Identify, but Protests Pro-tests Innocence of Charge Against Him. I By Associated Press. SAN FHANC1SCO. July 30. Dragged from bcncalli a sink In the washroom of a Third street lodging house in this city, where he had been hidden Tor twenty-four hours. Joseph A. Wendllng. accused ac-cused of the murder of little Alma ICcll-ner ICcll-ner In Louisville. K, and whose iwlst-Inga iwlst-Inga and turnings have baffled the police po-lice for four months, was arrested today by Detectives Burke and Ryan of the local police department. Wendllng admitted ad-mitted his Identity, but protested his Innocence of the crime. A few hours after the arrest Captain of Detectives J. P. Carney of Louisvlllo arrived to learn that his 11,000-mllc search for Wendllng had been crowned with success. Jt was the Hnal telegraphed tip from thu Kentucky detective that led to the capture. In his relentless pursuit of the supposed sup-posed murderer, Carney many times lost the trail, but the secret of the whereabouts where-abouts of his quarry always lay with Mrs. Cora Muena, a milliner of Ilumo, Mo. It was from her home that Carney Car-ney flashed the Information that led to tho arrest. Unconscious BotrayaJ. It seemed tho Irony of fate that the only respectable woman found by Carney Car-ney to havu been connected with Wendllng Wen-dllng during his wanderings should have been thtl unconscious means of botraying him. Mrs. Muena met Wendllng at tho home of her aunt in Houston, Tex., and before she returned to Hume she was engaged to the dashing young Frenchman, who dazzled the aunt, with talcs of tho wealth in France which would come to him with the death of his aged fathor. Before I 'Airs. Muena left Houston snc grew to fear Wendllng. and after her return to .Hume she broke tho engagement. When Carney received the clew that wendllng was working for a grocer In Houston, the detective began tho long search which led him to every county seat In Texas. At Houston he found that Wendllng had ficd to San Antonio, where he had secured a position on a ranch twenty-two miles from that town. A trip to the ranch proved abortive, as .the hunted man had fled, leaving some of this effects behind. Here Carney lost the trail. Decoy Letters Used. ' Returning to Houston he sent a decoy fetter, ostensibly written by tho aunt to Mrs. Muena, asking for the address of 'Henry Jacqucmlon. the name assumed by Wendllng when ho left Louisville. The .reply. Intercepted by Carney, Informed him that his prey was in Los Angeles. The detective's trip to Los Angeles proving fruitless, he returned to San An-'tonlo, An-'tonlo, where he found that Henry Plcard, "a friend of Wendllng. had received a postal pos-tal picture card from the fugitive. This communication, written in French, was marked Rio Vista, Cal. Abandoning his Texas hunting ground, Carney came Immediately Im-mediately to this city, where ho secured the nld of the local detective bureau. Accompanied Ac-companied by Detective Conlln. he went to Rio Vista, but their man had flown, leaving behind him, however, his name 'on tho payroll of a company which was building jetties alonp the Sacramento river. Then the trail again became so .cold that Carney determined to. visit .Mrs. Muena at her home In Hume. He f reached there Just In time to prevent the 'destruction of a postal, which gave the address of Wendllng in Vallejo. Cal. Mr-Mucna Mr-Mucna had destroyed her other correspondence, corre-spondence, with Wendllng and was on tho point of burnlntr the postal when the Louisville police official arrived. When the address was flashed to San Fran-'cisco. Fran-'cisco. Detective Burke was at once sent to Vallejo In the possession of AIIc Miller, with whom Wendllng had been living, he. found the fugitive's photo-pranh photo-pranh and a complete kit of hurclar tools. A further search of the plapo led to tl" 'discovery of many articles which hac' been taken from the residence of Thomas Thom-as Saunders, which had boen burglarized thn-o times. This was the house formerly for-merly occupied by Charles Wldemann. .for whom Wendllng worked as gardener. Trail Followed Up. . Wendllng was soon traced to this city, but tho detectives were thrown off the track by a strange doublo, who left a suitcase Ik a deserted house in the north Deach foreign quarter. The death by his pwn hand of this suspect two davs ago again left the detectives without tho scent, but they caught It again when Captain of Directives Wall received a tip Thursday night that tho fugitive was In a Third street rooming house. Tho number .given proved to be a vacant lot. Next door, however, was a lodging house frequented by laboring men. Mr.-. Mary Morlarlty, the owner of thu house, declared de-clared that & man answering Wendllng's description had been there, but hud left n few dny.s before Tho detectives wero still suspicious, and after watching tho house Tor twenty-four hours determined this morning to make -a search. Their efforts were rewarded by the discovery of Wendllng crouched beneath the sink of a washroom. Dragged forth he did not mako the slightest resistance, and when the bullet wound In his hand and the tnttoocrt ship on his arm were exposed by his captors he readily admitted his identity.' Explains His Plight. On the arrival of the detectives with Wendllng at the city prison Chief of Tollco Martin and District Attorney Flck-ort Flck-ort were summoned. With the detectives detec-tives these two officials remained closeted closet-ed for an hour with the prisoner. He protested his Innocence of the ICcllnor murder, declaring that he knew nothing of It until ho read of the finding of the body. Wendllng maintained that he had adopted tho name of his mother to avoid his brother-in-law, Louis Arnold, who had pursued him from France to mako him marry Madeline Arnold, That tho bitterness between tho two men has for his life wan the explanation clung to by Wendllng in explaining his flight. Wendllng told Captain Carney that he would not resist extradition and the latter lat-ter said that he would start for home with his prisoner as soon as he is restod from his strenuous chase. A dolay by a train wreck of one day on his return from Hume kept Carney from lining In at the arrest, and he was fifty miles from this city when Wendllng was taken into custody. cus-tody. According to Captnin Carney the evidence evi-dence against Wendllng Is very strong. The strongest link was the discovery of some of the girl's bloody clothing In a closet In Wendllng's home. Strong Chain of Evidence. This, with other circumstantial evl-donco evl-donco brought before the coroner's and , grand Junes, will In tho opinion of tho Louisville police chief send Wendllng to the gallows. Carney claims to havo ended here today one of the longest and most expcnslvo man-hunts of modern times. Descriptions of Wendllng wore sent to every American consular representative repre-sentative in the world and to overy postmaster post-master In France and Germany. Since June 11 tho expenses of Captain Carney have averaged flOO daily. Wendllng Is smooth shaven and with tho healthy tan that comes from outdoor work. During all the proceedings accompanying accom-panying his arrest, he was tho coolest ono concerned. A socond sweating planned for this afternoon was declared off at tho request of Carney, who declared de-clared that there was no chance of breaking break-ing him down. Statement of Accused. Wendllng was taken from his coll to night and a representative of tho Associated Asso-ciated Press permitted to talk with him. When told that the Louisville police officials of-ficials had declared that the evidence against him was strong, he shrugged his shoulders, smiled, and said: "Those police? Well, they don't get any stuff on mo. I ain't killed that child. J. don't know that that child been dend until I read it In the paper three weeks ago. Then I want to go back home, but I don't go. Why do I kill little girls? I tell you I don't do It. "If little girls is killed, no one sees it. No one only God, and God don't say. I don't even know the little Kellner girl. I never saw her. "As soon as I get home and see Father Schumann everything will be all right. 1 want to get out of this troubles right away. 1 know the first two or three days that I been in that church as janitor that it ain't going to be good for me. something was going to happen, 1 told myself, and now look at this troubles." Still smiling and still good naturedlv protesting his Innocence, Wendllng was led back to his cell. W.OMAN IN THE CASE IS rORCED TO TALK By Associated Press. HUME, Mo., July 30. That Mrs. Cora Muena. the town milliner of this place, had botrayed the whereabouts of Joseph Wendllng came as a surprise to tho little lit-tle woman here tonight, when she was told thnt the man who had boen known to her as Henry Jacquemln, and to whom she had becomo engaged, had been arrested ar-rested at San Francisco. Mrs. Muena, when asked to tell of her relations with tho Louisvlllo Janitor, first expressed resentment, then fear and for a time refused absolutely to talk of her innocent part in the affair. "I have nothing at all to say," protested pro-tested Mrs: Muena. "I must be convinced con-vinced first that this man under arrest is the man whom I knew as Henry Jacquemln Jacque-mln In Houston before I will make a statement regarding our acquaintanceship. acquaintance-ship. ' Then the story of Wendllng's arrest. Jhc statement of Detective J. P. Carney about the Frenchman's movements and other points In his life wero detailed to Mrs. Muena and shot gradually began to nod assent and to acknowledge that l?n !10m sne nnd known In Texas and Wendling were one and the same. "There can bo no question about If." said she finally, "and to think that I should have known him and that he should have dared to make love to me." Engagement Admitted. Mrs. Muena is a widow, 32 Years- old. She still possesses a photograph of Wendllng. Wen-dllng. and as she talked about the man and her knowledge of him she readily admitted they had been engaged to V married. Mrs. Muena had retired for tho night when called to the door of her home and urged to glvo her story. The interview proceeded with the newspaperman and tho milliner on elthfcr side of a half-open half-open door, and It took persistent questioning ques-tioning to elicit any information from Mrs. Muena. Her brother arrived after a time and then she quickly decided to stop talking entirely. ' As soon as J learn deflnitclv that this man Is In reality Wendllng I will be willing will-ing to talk for publication." Then, after a moment's hesitation, she added: 1 "Tomorrow morning I shall make a statemen t With this final declaration. Mrs. Muena closed and locked the door. After Mrs. Muena returned to Hume from Texas she frequently talked to friends of a Frenchmnn she hod met in the south. "I wonder how mv Frenchman French-man Is?" she said frequently. She said that tho man had said he was wealthy. She never spoke of him as Wendllng. and. In fact, had said she could not remember re-member his name. Mrs. Muena owns her own millinery store here. |