Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1911 — WENDLING MUST SERVE TIME [ARTICLE]

WENDLING MUST SERVE TIME

Sentence of Murderer pf Little Alma Kellner Affirmed. Frankfort, Ky., May 12.—Joseph Wendling, convicted of the murder of eight-year-old Alfha Kellner, must pass ’the remainder of his life in prison, according to a decision by the Kentucky court of appeals, affirming the life sentence of the lower court. After a chase which extended from Louisville to New Orleans, then to Texas, and ending in California, Wendling was arrested, tried and convicted of the murder of the Kellner girl in Litisville Dec. 3, 1909. The mutilated tody of the girl was found in the basement of the church where Wendling was employed as a janitor, a short time after Wendling had fled from Louisville.