Show IS I IS S 1 TO PR SON fOR LIFE After Four Hours Deliberation Jury Rendered a Verdict in inFamous inFamous inFamous Famous Murder Case PRISONER REMAINS i PERFECTLY CALM Declares the Jury Should Either Send Him to the Electric Chair or Liberate Him 4 LOUISVILLE Ky iy Dec 3 L t Joseph Joeph Wendling tonight was found guilty guilt by b a Jury of or the murder of or Alma 4 Kellner and his hi punishment fixed at life imprisonment The Time jury was given the case ca at G O this afternoon 4 and amid announcement of the ver diet came at 1010 p m Wend Wendling Wendling 4 ling was was taken to his wife 1 1 Mrs Irs Madeline Wendling when the verdict was announced He Hc remained perfectly calm calmI 1 I either killed the rho little litHe girl irl or I did not said Penciling They The should either olther send send me meto meto meto to the electric chair or turn mo too free I Tho verdict camo came after a n day da spent In argument by attorneys and the reading of tho Instructions by bj Judge JUdS Gregory Gregor Although there thero wore four Cour possible verdicts the jury might have returned under the instructions pt pf the court time the verdict was merely murder Circumstantial Evidence Tho rho evidence presented against Wendling r was purely circumstantial Since Since his KIs arrest and throughout his trial ho denied any an knowledge o otho ot of tho the fate of or the time Kellner KeUner girl Witnesses testified however that then janitor at St Johns Catholic C church was seen in the church the morning Alma last went there to mass Alma Kollner Kellner was the daughter of ot Mr lr and Mrs Irs Fred Kellner of this city and a niece of or orJo Frank Jo ank Fehr millionaire brewer who spent much time and money mone In the search for the child and in the prosecution pros prosecution prosecution of Wendling Story of the time Crime Alma Ama Kellner was last seen In St Johns Catholic church Dec S 1909 where she had lead gone one for mass amass When Then she failed to t return homo after al hours her family began to be alarmed and notified tho the police It was first believed the child had been beon kidnapped 1 and hud numerous rewards were offered for her return On May MIYo 0 o tho the mutilated body bod of a chill child was wat found In a cellar under tho time music room at St Sl Johns Catholic church The body bod was accepted by b tho the Kell Keli Kellner Kellner ner family as that of their child Circumstantial evidence pointed loin ted to lo Joseph Wendling former Cormer janitor of the church who vho had ha disappeared on January 14 11 as the murderer A search was ryas started for him which led lod to New Ne Orleans through Texas and finally In a to California where he was captured on June 30 the arrest being made in San Francisco I Carneys Carney Persistent Work Chief Detective Carney Carne of this city ell who persistently conducted the tho search for Wendling had hind almost given sl slen given en up uI the tho hunt when ho located Mrs Cora Junea a milliner at Humo Mo Io Wendling had hall known Mrs Irs Hume Humo In fa 1 1 Texas and had proposed marriage to her imor Mrs Irs denied any knowledge of Wendling but on ou his visit Captain Carney Clime found a postcard from rom Wend Vend ling mailed in iii California Continued vm on Page pase Three r WENDLING IS SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR LIFE Continued from front Pago One Carney Carne telegraphed his Information to tho the San Francisco police and tho the arrest followed Wanted Case C tse Taken to Federal Court Once back hack in Louisville attorneys 1 tot for 01 who is a Frenchman attempted to have hao the case tried In Inthe tho the federal court and with sIx of his own countrymen on the tIle Jury The Tho federal court sent bont tho the caso case hack back to Lo Lothe the thc state court Tho The trial hogan bogan on Monday anti and has been one ono of the most celebrated held In this thi state |