The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-28
MURDER POINTS TO
\ H|DE0US TRAFFIC
IN GIRLS
New York Police Endeavor To
Fasten on Youth Accused of Brutal
Staying Of l5-Year-0ld Girl Blame =.
For White Slave Trade.
Portions Of Victims Burnt Body Are
Found in Fireplace-Details of
Crime Are CHASTITY.

NEW YORK. March 2S.-While Al
bert Wolter. from his cell In the
Tombs, defantly denies TO the officials
that he knows anything OF Ruth
Wheeler. Is years old, who was slain
10 his fiat and then burned to a charred
mass, the police are weaving about
him chain or circumstantial evidence.
In addition TO the death OF the
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 the
drivers OF white slaves" Katchen
Mueller, VOTERS pseudo-wife, who
supported the youth and who lived
with him In the fiat on East Seventy
flfth-st.. where the girl was killed ana
burned. has been arrested by the po-
lice and has given damaging evidence
against him.
She has given too, the names OF a
number OF young girls with whom she
said Wolter was friendly and the po-
lice are looking them up. believing
they will be able TO show that the
youth had been living on the shame
ow women and has even gone to the
point or destroying some OF them who
refused TO become his slaves.
The police have obtained from VOL
ter's rooms a memorandum book
which they believe will disclose fur
Their evidence against the prisoner.
1t was in this book that was found the
memorandum that Wolter had en-
ployed Ruth Wheeler, 10. as stenogra-
pher. at 81 a week. Wolter, 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. 70
learn II they became VOTERS victims.
Capt. Hughes. incharge Of the East
Sixty-seventh-st. police station. who is
In active charge OF the case, said to-
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.
Coroner Holtzkauser. who has held
Wolter to the grand jury without bali
on the charge OF murder. told the
United Press today that Ruth Wheeler
IN which her slayer sought 10 burn her
body and thus hide the traces OF his
crime. He added many details which
showed the flemish brutality OF the
crime.
Ruth Wheeler's slayer was a de-
generate: l believe he trafficked III
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 In 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 doubly
sure, he tied a piece OF rope around
ier neck and twisted 1t fiendishly, so
that 1t cut deep into the flesh.
Realizing what he had done, the
murderer sought 10 hide the evidences
OF his crime
"He doubled up the girls body. with
her knees under her chin, and tied II
together with piece of wire. Then
he built a big charcoal fire in the
crate and kept 1t going with oil. He
tried to thrust the girls body in, but
It was too large.
"An examination OF the girls body
shows that the brute took knife aud
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
wefe broken, not sawed. Then he cut
of the flesh of the arms and broke
them of, Remembering the body.
which he then tried TO burn up.
He 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 placed
1t In a burlap bag wrapped in a
shirt"
II Is expected the grand jury within
day or two will hand down an in
dictment charging Wolter with first
degree murder. The police say they
are satisfied that Hatcher Mueller is
innocent OF any completely In the
crime, though she will be held as a
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
seeking Ruth.