OCR Text |
Show WENDLING IN LOUISVILLE Waves His Hand to the Crowd and Smiles Ixuilsvllle, Aug. 12. Joseph Wend-iing, Wend-iing, wanted here on tlie chars? of inurdcilng Alma Kellner. was placed in the city hall here this morning uftcr a remarkable chase across the (or.tinent, and an almost equally remarkable re-markable return, in charge of Capt C.irney, chief or the Louisville detective detec-tive department, Wcndllng had no sooner been ushered ush-ered into the chief of police's room than he look a position In one of Hie larg3 windows and busied him-rcir him-rcir In whlstllrvg and waving his ban J to the crowd which had ,gath- ved in the street below. His ever-l.-.eting finlle was much in evidence, j Wc-ndllng touched Kentucky soil ' shortly arter 8 o'clock this morning, tor the first time In many month::. He and his captor took a train at Kvansvllle, ind., about 3 o'clock. Handcuffed together, Capt Carney I-1 id his man occupied the drawing room on the Evansvllle sleeper. The train was an hour late when It pull-el pull-el into the Union Depot. A large, but orderly, crowd was kept, in bounds by plenty of police and, when vSeudllng was hurried from the car to an automobile, there was no dem-I dem-I c.'strat inn. It has not yet been announce 1 when Wendllng will be presented a police court. In all probability there will be one or two continuances granted. grant-ed. He han already been Indicted ly the grand Jury on a charge of murder. The bringing of Wendllng to Louis-ville Louis-ville marks the end of one of the longest chases in detective history. Hio return trip from San Francisco to Louisville stretches the real hunt of. about 11,000 miles, to a total or over 13.000 miles. Not until May .'.nth, the date that the mutilated body oT Alma Kellner was found In a ce!- lar beneath St. Johns parochial school wiis Wendling connected with the disappearance dis-appearance of the child. It was iieMoved tnat the chill had been kld-ruped. |