Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-04-01
GIRL WAS MURDERED
STENOGRAPHER LURED AWAY
BY WANT AID.
Evidence Against A. w. Walters Is
Damaging Be Other Victims
Looks Like He Tried to Conceal the
Crime by Burning the Body-Was
Identified by Parts of Dress Goods.

Identified by Parts of Dress Goods.
New York, March 2S.-One of the
most revolving crimes ever perpetrated
in New York was uncovered when the
charred body of Ruth Amos Wheeler,
a 15-year-old stenographer, who disap-
peared last Thursday, was found on the
fire escape in the rear of No. 222 East
Seventy fifth street, next door to the
house in which lived Albert w. VOL
terts, now held on charge of homicide.
VOTERS had been arrested on a
charge of abduction when it was found
that the girl had gone to his rooms
seeking position as stenographer, but
the charge was changed when the body
was found.
Handkerchief Is Clue.
The body was wrapped in an oil
soaked gunnysack, and was burned al
most beyond recognition. A charred
fragment of rope sticking to the neck
showed that the girl was strangled.
Wrapped up in the sack with the
body was a package containing man IS
white shirt bearing the initial "W."
The fire escape on which the body
was first discovered is of the balcony
type, and was for the use of the ten
ants of both No. 222 and 224. The
fiat occupied by Wolters opened on it.
The police made careful examina.
ton of the apartment Wolters had oc-
cupied and discovered that a fire board
protecting the wall from the stove had
been removed, newly reprinted and re
placed. The condition of the CRATE was
such that the police believe that the
body was wrapped III cloth or papers
saturated with oil, crushed into the
chimney and set on fire.
No blood was found, which strength
ems the belief that the girl wal
strangled
The body was first discovered by JohI
Taggart, who lives in No. 222, who sup
posed the bundle to be garbage anC
pushed it over the railing into the yard
The fall burst the bag, and attracted
the attention of John Woshl, who say
it contained the fragments of body
and notified a policeman.
Girl Clicked and Burned.
In the bundle with the body was
new paint brush with red handle
The bristles were stiff with black paint
and the brush evidently had been use
in painting the fre-board in the VOL
tiers apartments. Later, can partl
filed with black paint was found in tn
rooms occupied by Wolters at No. IL
West One Hundred and Fifth street
where he and his alleged wife wen
after leaving the East Seventy-fft
street house.
Several of the tenants told the polio
that late on Thursday night or earl
Friday morning they noticed stron
smell of kerosene.
From fragments of a postal car
found in his room it is believed ths
Wolters made practice of writing
business colleges to send him gil
stenographers.
He had wide correspondence wit
!, these girls and many of them Gale
! on him In the past few months
had lived at three different addresse
e He Denies Crime.
e Albert Wolter, the youth in the fir
place of whose rooms were found pc
e tions of the, burnt body of Rut
l. Wheeler, was committed to the Toni
j. without bail, charged with the girl
o murder.
Wolter persists in his denial that
n had ever seen the girl, ever hs
l. written to her or knew how her boo
/. came on the fire escape outside b
C window, or why fragments of hums
It feet, hands and arms were found in Il
l. ashes of his fireplace.
n His Mistress Denies knowledge.
9 Katie Miller, the girl with whom
lived, was arrested as she approach
Us the house where the murder was col
10 mitted. She was reading the details
u German newspaper as she wake
"a smiling as she read.
a. During long eross-examination S
10 held to the story that she knew nothi
~ of the crime until she read of it in t
o. newspapers.
On Thursday night, when she !
81 turned from work at the laundry, whe
she earned Sc week-and gave it
rs to Wolter-she said she noticed t
n stove in front of the fireplace had be
e. MAYED, the freboard newly painted a
ne cOlored Autograph pasted over t
lg hole where the stovepipe formerly {
lg tered. When she asked Wolter why
ne had done this, he answered that SUNNI
er was coming and they would not ne
ne the stove.
n