The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-27
Young New Yorker Suspected Of
Numbering Girl and Trying
10 Burn Body.
STRONG CHAIN OF EVIDENCE
REVEALED BY OFFICERS
Admissions Made by the Ac-
cused Are Considered to Be
Indicative of Guilt.
BY Leased wire to The Tribune.

after sho had appileu tp AlDc'I HDi''
of No 224 East Seventy fifth stree
for position, MAS found late today |
n qunnv.sack outside the window of tn
apartment, which the police say wa
formerly occupied by Wolter. Wolfe
was put under the police third de
gree inuuisition tonight and admltte
he had written n postal card to bus
ness address asking fer stenographe'
which resulted in the sending of MIS-
Wheeler 10 his home. The police be
leve that the case VIII proye. an en-
tirely new avenue in the white slav
investigation and throw much ligh
upon the method of "slavers.
Wolter was held in $4,000 bail
pale-faced. fnshily dressed young man
he took the charge coolly.
Followin" this n woman, said TO b
Woltcr's S wife. was locked up by th'
police and questioned.
The apartment nj the rear of whlcl
the body was found is occupied by JOIN
Taggart Taggart noticed big bun
die on the fire escape Taggart. sup
posing the bundle contained something
Of no worth belonging to one OF thf
neighbors. threw it into the yard with
out knowing what IT contained,
Janitor Discovers Crime.
a few minutes later. John Mohl, the
ianitor of the building, was horrified
TO find the charred remains of human
body protruding from the sack. He
al once notified the police.
Detectives hurried 10 the spot and
commenced an Investigation. 1t was
found that the BODY had been soaked
in oil, Nearby stretched piece OF the
blood soaked uudershirt marked with
the initials ''W. O.
The detectives removed the bag with
its grewsome contents TO the East
Sixty.seventh street police station. Po-
lice Captain Hughes at once sent Tor
the parents of the Wheeler girl. After
viewing the remains they said they felt
sure il was their daughter. Both moth
er and father collapsed. The body was
cut and scared as though with hot
IRON.
Within the sack was small red.
handed paint brush. Both the bag and
its contents rceked with kerosene. The
body was so badly burned that the fea-
lures could not be distinguished.
Search for Evidence.
The Welter apartment WAS ransacked
from top to bottom this evening by the
detectives. They found a small memo;
rnndum book which they say belonged
to the girl. 1t contained the name
'.Ruth Amos Wheeler
The mysterious woman known as Mrs.
Wolter plays an important part in the
tragedy, according to the police. VOL
ter, early in the day, told the reporters
he had never seen Miss Wheeler, al
though he admitted writing postal cards
to business colleges, saying he wanted
stenographer.
In the Wolter apartment a number of
obscene photographs were found. The
fire board in the chimney in the kitchen
had been removed and freshly painted,
indicating the FIRE had recently been
built in the fireplace for some purpose.
~ never saw the girl, y said VOL
ter. "I III admit / sent the postal to
the college: If she called at the apart.
ments at 9;30 o'clock on Thursday I
was not there. On that day 1 left my
rooms at S:45 o'clock and went uptown.
/ did not, get back home until clock
p. M
The police learned that Wolter and
a woman. who says she is his wife. had
apartments in another house Mt 122 East
One Hundred and Fifth street.
The coroner requested tonight that
Wolter be confronted with the charred
trunk of his supposed victim in the
belief that that might weaken him.
This move was not countenanced by
District Attorney Whitman,
Police Looking for Woman.
The main efforts of the police are
now directed TO finding Kate Miller,
the woman who lived with Wolter as
his wife. This woman visited Wolter
in court this morning before the body
was discovered. but since then she has
disappeared. The detective bureau is
unable to get trace Of her.
The big facts that stand out in this
tragedy are that Ruth Wheeler reported
at the Bankers business college at
Fifty-eighth street and Madison avenue
at o clock Thursday morning to see
II there was any position for her. She
was given a postal card on which was
the statement that a stenographer was
wanted by Albert Wolter at 224 East
Seventy.fifth street.
The girl arrived there at $50 clock.
She was studying names in the hall di.
rectory when she met John L. Mohl,
the lanitor. He directed her to the
top floor, rear apartment. Both Mohl
and Mrs. Mohl watched the girl ascend
the steps TO the apartment rented three
weeks ago by Wolter and the Miller
woman. That was the last time Ruth
was seen alive until her dismembered
body was discovered Ruth Wheeler
developed as TO appear older than she
really was.
The girl was very desirous of help
ing support her family, Every morn
ing when she left for school she would
express the CHEEKY hope to her mother
that she might secure work that day.
Wolter has been in this country only
three or four years. He is typical
East Side dandy. His father, Albert
Woltcr, is. in the piano business and
quite well-to-do. The prisoner, a shift
less youth, WAS driven away from home
because Of his lazy, vicious habits.
An Unsavory Story.
Adelaide Wheeler told of going TO
Wolter's apartment on Friday and ask
ing what had become of her sister, as
she had not yet come home, She said
she found Wolter and the Miller won.
an only half attired.
"Come in; she s only doing some art
poses," said Wolter to Miss Wheeler.
as he indicated Katie Miller.
Adelaide said when she entered the
apartment the man locked the door be.
hind her and leered at her in such n
manner as to cause ber fear of injury.
At this very time the body of Ruth
Wheeler must have been secreted in
the chimney place
Wolter lives off the Miller woman s
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