MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE
4> I £lO,OOO COMPENSATION PARIS, May 20. r M. Joseph Wendling, a Frenchman > who spent 25 years in an American r " prison following a miscarriage of jusI tice,- has just learned that he will re-| t ceive £7,000 compensation from the United States Government. o in 1909 M. Wendling, who (s now • 51, emigrated to America and obtained e work at a brewery in Kentucky. Some- 1 II time afterwards a child of his •aniployv er, Mr. Keller, disappeared. Wendt ling was charged with kidnapping the , - child and was given a life senten.ee. t Last June the real kidnapper made e full death-bed confession to the ] - crime and Wendling was released. -'He returned to France and settled,! linear Strasbourg. Meanwhile, his,s solicitors in America claimed for lump s ' damages of £7,000. x I; I Wendling has now received a t-olc-j* e gram from them stating that the Su-| < 3 I premo Court of the United States has;, 3 I admitted the claim. , In addition, he ; j t is receiving some £3,000 as a gift 1 e! from the Keller family. ? _ ]
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1936, Page 14
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