The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-28
Post Mortem Gives Evidence That
the Girl Was Not Dead When
She Was Placed in
the Fire
ACCUSED NOT WORRIED
Man Charged With Brutal Crime
Sleeps soundIy and Has Not
Yet Made Confession
of Murder.


Muller, the young woman who has
on a charge of the murder of 15-
year-old Ruth Wheeler, was picked up
by the police Sunday. From her the
authorities obtained some valuable
corroborative evidence against VOL
ter.
Although the story of the Muller
girl was the most interesting testi-
mony adduced, it W.; not the most
sensational, for Corone1's Physician
O'Hanlon, after performing an au-
topsy on Ruth Wheeler's body, eX-
pressed the opinion that she had
been burned alive.
A weak link in the chain CT essen
TALLY circumstantial evidence with
which the police and the district at
| torney's office are surrounding VOL
| ter would be difficult for the layman
| to find, but the official sleuths and the
office of the county prosecutor are
working still in an effort to perfect
| their case against the man and to find
| out the whole truth of the murder OF
/ the child who went to VOTERS room
in search of employment as stenog-
rapher
When the jailers went to get VOL
ter for his arraignr'ent the 19-year-
old German, who had stood several
hours of grilling on Saturday evening
Il had slept so soundlv that the iailers
had difficulty in awakening him. They
took him to the Yorkville court
where the charge of abduction was
withdrawn and Magistrate Breen re
manded him to the custody OF the
coroner on the charge of murder. He
was taken to othe Tombs.
Katie Muller vas arrested near
. house in which she and Wolter ha6
taken rooms after the police hae
searched their former lodgings. She
is 1s years old Under the question
ing of the officials she told what the!
believe to be most Of what she ma.
have to tell.
She was born near Bremen in Ger
many and came here about thTe'
years ago. Her parents are not il
!, this country. She met Wolter las
June at ball, and in August the
= begain living together. She wa
!, sure Wolter mad nothing to do wit
other girls Her faith in him wa
:. iarred for the first time last Thurs
y day evening when Pearl Wheele
came to their rooms and demanded G
y him that he tell her where her siste
4 Ruth was. This episode made he
9 Jealous, she saie, and she demande
y that he tell her what he had to d
u with the other girl. He denied know
le ing the other girl though he finall
- acknowledged having written the pos
~ card asking for girl stenographer
~ call.
Then couple of hours later tn
T. Wheeler sisters came back with til
lr- police and this call made her nervot
iu and she tried afterward, but fgain
vain. to find out from W~'ter what a
the trouble meant. She said that ST
had noticed on her return from VOL
- on Thursday evening, that the stoN
e had been moved from the dining roo
and the whole front Of the fire pla'
No painted. Also the hole in the fir
booard through which the stove pil
had gone had been covered over BY
picture.
She identified the shirt found
- VOTERS, and the sack in which Ru
"a Wheeler's body was found as t
sack in which the wood was brous
UP to the rooms. She said that on
IA day when she got up to go to WORK
6 o'clock Wolter told her to pack
=. their things and meet him in the e
q ming at Park avenue and Eightit
- street, where they were arrested.
- said he was going out to rent n
home because the detective mit
continue to bother them where tt
rd were.
10 Saturday morning she had been
-, charged from the bakery because
- 30 employer had read in the papers
~ the arrest of Wolter for abducti
-; IA, and thaat she was living with
~. without ceremony. She had then g
: to the court on Saturday morning
cause she had nothing to fear
wanted to see what was done.
At the order of Coroner Holtzh;
'eW er Katie Muller was committed to
que house of detention as a witness.
ael' DR.. o'Hanlon, after making
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