The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-27
DEcOYED TO APARTMENT, MUIR.
DeRED. BURNED, THEN
cAuckEp lNToA SACK.
SUSPECT IS ARRESTED
Man Believed to Have Gotten the Girl
Into His Clutches. by Means Of q
Bogus Offer Of Employment, Trailed
Down by Detectives and Caught
viii Not Explain Mysterious Crime.

New York, March 2s.-The body of
Ruth Wheeler. the girl graduate who
was lured from her widowed mother
on Thursday last by decoy offer
~ employment, was found late this
afternoon in asgnnnysack on fire
escape outside the apartment OF AL
bert Wolter. the man charged with
her abduction. She had been strangled
with a rope. hacked with a knife.
burned beyond recognition and thrust
carelessly out Of doors like so much
rubbish.
Identification was only possible by
shreds of clothing and fragments OF
jewelry. but there was abundant proof
as to how the murder had been COM
mitted. Around the neck we're the
charred fibres OF manila burnt into
the flesh. The apartment reeked with
the odor OF Kerosene. There were oAl
stains In front of the newly painted
flreboard that hid an open CRATE
Fully dressed. the girls clothing and
hair had been Saturated with kero-
sene, the fireboard had been removed
and the body thrust up the chimney
standing When the match was
torch.
This afternoon "A neighbor found a
lumpy bundle outside his window and
thinking IL refuse. had poked 1t off
the fire escape into the back yard
with broom handle The bundle
moved obstinately and fell with
crash. His suspicious aroused. the
neighbor hurried downstairs for the
janitor TO investigate. Ruth Wheeler
was 15 years old, the youngest OF
three sisters, encouraged by their mo-
| ther, a dressmaker, to self-support
Ruth had just graduated from busi-
ness college and was seeking for EN-
ployment. An employment agency
for graduates Is conducted by the
college and Ruth called there often
to look for a situation. Thursday
morning she left home on her usual
errnnd and never returned
Causes Alarm.
| The girls failure to come home
alarmed her relatives and her elder
sisters went To the college and learned
that the following postcard had been
| turned over to her:
Dear Madam Please call in ref
erence to position OF stenographer at
residence OF the secretary.
"(SiRned) A. WOLTER.
!, NO. 224 East Seventy-fifth street"
/ Investigation at the address given
soon showed that Wolter whom his
landlady described as a sickly, white
faced youth Of about 20, with flashy
clothes and deliberately curled hair.
had left the apartment where he lived
with his wife. earlier in the same day.
He received many calls from young
girls. said the landlady. and she had
particularly noticed that the one who
called yesterday was fresher OF face
and better dressed than the ordinary
run. of them.
Trail Wife.
With Wolter gone the detectives
waited for his wife and when she ap-
peared they trailed her until she met
man answering VOTERS descrlp-
tion. He was Immediately arrested
and taken TO the rooms he had va
Gated. At first he denied writing
postcards to business schools, but
later admitted the correspondence,
but could not explain. Before a mag
istrate he had nothing 10 say but to
others he admitted that the woman
with whom he was living is not his
wife.
.yignnUarxt ~ tnIn i'm
, mediately brought a second search Of
VOTERS vacated apartments. In the
, ashes OF the fireplace We're found the
charred bones of human toes. por-
| tlon of an arm bone, a woman's gar
ter and a bundle containing a mans
. nlghtshirt. on which was embroidered
the initial w" VOTERS parents.
found tonight, told in broken English
Of the difficulties their son had
brought upon them.
, He was always crazy about
women" said the mother. From the
I time he was a little boy Il was al
ways dancing, pleasure, women with
| him.
The father. a piano tuner from
, Dresden. Germany, said Albert was
TWO years younger IMAM kHc aSc iic
y had given the police. The boy had
been born our of wedlock Is years
4 ago. but when the parents came to
: this country they married. The fa-
ther found work for Albert, who stole
+" SIS from his employers. the father
# said, and fled. but was caught. Tue
father paid back the money and had
not seen his son since.