The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-29
MURDER P0|NTs76
H|DEOUs TRAFFIC.
IN GIRLS
New York Police Endssvpr q
Fasten on Youth Accused Of 1rstnI|
Staying of l5-Year-0ld Girl BIana.
For White Slave Trada
Portions of Victims Burnt Body Ar
Found in Fireplace Details Of
Crime Are CHASTITY. I.

NEW YORK, March 29.-WhiIe A.
Albert Wolter, from his cell in fna
iomDs, dehantly denies to the oficia}n
mat he knows anything of RUN
wheeler, 10 years old, who was slain
In his nat and then burned to charre3
mass, the police are weaving about
hlin chain OF circumstantial evidence.
In addition to the death OF tha
Wheeler girl. the police are trying to
fasten upon the German youth a series
Of revolving crimes which will show
him up In the light OF king OF tha
drivers OF white slaves" Katchen
Mueller, VOTERS pseudo-wife, who
supported the youth and who lived
with him In the fat on East Seyenty-
ffth-st., where the girl was killed ana
burned, has been arrested by the 20
lice and has given damaging evidence
against him.
she has given, too, the names OF =
humber or young girls with whom she
said Wolter was friendly and the p0-
lice are looking them up, believing
they VIII be able to show thate th0
youth hal been living on the shame Of
women and has even gone to the poinr
OF destroying some of them who re-
fused to become his slaves
The police have obtained from Vol
ters rooms memorandum book
which they believe will disclose fur
Their evidence against the prisoner.
! II was In this book that was found the
memorandum that Wolter had en-
ployed Ruth Wheeler. Is, as stenogra-
pher at 81 week. Woltey, when
arrested, denied he had ever heard
of the Wheeler girl. This book con-
tains the names OF dozens OF other
New York girls, with their addresses.
and detectives are seeking these. to
learn II they became VOTERS victims.
! Capt. Hughes, In charge of the East
Stxty-seventh-st. police station. who Is
in active charge OF the case, said tor
day he believed the German youth was
the active head of band of men and
women who trafficked In white slaves.
VOTERS task being to lure young girls
to apartments and get them in his
power. a.s. tsA. 81 x
Coroner Holtzhauser. who has held
Wolter to the grand Jury without bail
on the charge OF murder, told the
United Press today that Ruth Wheeler
was dead when placed In the fireplace
In which her slayer sought to burn her
body and thus hide the traces of his
crime. He added many details which
showed the fiendish brutality of the
crime.
I Ruth Wheeler's slayer was de-
generate; believe he traficked in
girls. Turing them to his rooms by
means OF advertisements and then at
lacking them, pointing to this to hold
them in the life of vice he had planned
for them.
! Ruth Wheeler went to VOTERS
apartments I'm search Of work. Her
slayer probably attacked her and the
girl screamed. The man instantly
seized her by the throat to stop her
outcries Probably without intention.
he killed her. Then. to make doublyl
sure, he tied a piece of rope around
her neck and twisted Ii fiendishly, so
that 1t cut deep into the flesh.
Realizing what he had done. the
murderer sought To hide the evidences
OF his crime.
J Gle doubled up the girls body, with
her knees under her chin, and tied it,
together with piece Of wire. Then
| he built a big charcoal fire in the
CRATE and kept il going with OIL He
tried to thrust the girls body In, but
I II was too large.
can examination OF the girls body
shows that the brute took a knife and
cut away the flesh OF the legs at the
thigh until the bone was reached.
Then he literally broke the bones by
bending them. probably over his knee.
Our examination proves that the bones
were broken, not sawed Then he cut
off the flesh OF the arms and broke
4 them off. Remembering the body.
which he then tried to burn up.
"IIe did burn the arms and legs
completely up, though We have found
/ the bones in the fireplace. The torso
did not burn so easily. and he Raced
It in a burlap bag wrapped In q
shirt"
It is expected the grand jury within
la day or two will hand down an In
dictment charging Wolter with first
degree murder The police say they
( are satisfied that Katchen Mueller Is
/ innocent OF anv completely In the
crime. though she will be held as
material witness In the house OF de-
tention. The police believe she was
at work when the crime was com
mitted. She was IN the house, though.
when Adelaide. sister OF the girl. came