New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-29
NET CLOSING
ABOUT W0LTER
NE4R COLLAPSE 1T
GIRLS LETTER.
rs Police Forge Their Cham
ErIdence of "U'hite SIare"
Traffic is Strengthened.


Ruth Wheeler. And. 10 prove conc1u-
sively that Wolter was the cadet shs
called him on Sunday. Mary Weisman.
taken 70 the Tonbs as the result OF The
Tribune's investigation. picked him out
from line of ten men as the man shs
had named In her story.
Katchen Mueller all unwittingly. al
most broke down VOTERS amazing
nerve. She wrote him letter from the
House of Detention full of tender re-
gard. expressing blind faith in him. de-
spite all AND when he read IL, with
policemen watching his every movement,
he fell TO the floor of the prison, weepin.
and crying out 10 the girl for forgive
ness. But he recovered his seIf-posses-
sion. In moment he was as cool "a
ever. and TO the inquisitors he said:
See me again on Wednesday"
Katchen Mueller identified an UNI
brella that belonged 10 Ruth Wheeler az
one she had taken from the house where
the murder was committed TO the houss
in East 105th street. The keeper OF a
pawnshop said that Wolter had hag-
gled with him on Thursday over the
price of a paint brush-probably the one
that painted out the stains on the fire.
place in the room Of the crime.
David Goldstein positively identified a
picture of Albert Wolter as that OF IN.
man who was walking with his daughter
Annie a few days before she disappeared
on New Years Eve. He saw the picture
last night and that removed the last
doubt that Wolter was responsible for
Annie's disappearance. The story of her
vanishing and of her old fathers search
for her The Tribune told yesterday.
The old man had Just returned from
his work In Brooklyn.
Identified by Old Man.
why. that's the same mani" he ex-
claimed. with tone Of conviction, as hs
saw the picture. II know him, 7 saw him
well. / saw him with my Annie on Ave-
nue. .s3. and when I walked after them he
left her and went along fast and jumped
on the first car that came along. A day
or two after that saw him on the street
and got a good look at him. and that is
| the man. 7 cannot be mistaken.
! The old man has been out of work for
some time and got job only on Sunday.
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anxious TO get a chance to see the pris-
oner Wolter. he was afraid to lose his
work il he took the time necessary to
go down 10 the Tombs 10 see the man.
But the police, who could not find him
yesterday, will probably take him down
| to-day.
| Goldsteiu remembered yesterday that
he had seen Jennie Kohn, from whose
clutches he had rescued his daughter
last summer. two weeks ago In 18th
street, near Third avenue. This in
formation. given to Detectives William
F. Reich and Allan G. Landvoe. of the
homicide bureau. who had called at Gold
STEMS home as a result of the revela-
tions in The Tribune. led them to go
last night 10 t4th street and watch this
neighborhood in the hope of finding the
woman who was so closely connected
with Wolter for months.
I CioIdstein returned 70 his home after
the two officers had left for their watch.
and told about his glimpse OF Jennie
Kohn. who is fast becoming a sinister
figure in the case.
I II was up in 18th street a couple Of
weeks ago. watching everybody coming
and going" he said. hoping 70 see my
/ girl Annie. There + saw this woman
Jennie Kohn. she saw me- too. and she
said. Hello. Cioldstein.'
! She knew me. YOU see. for as told
YOU last night, when found Annie after
she ran away last summer, she was with
this woman. asked her. Where Is my
girl?' and she said II don't know whsr.
she is. I did not see her since long
time
/ Threatened Jennie kohn.
I II said TO her that she must know
I where my girl is, for Annie had been
with her the other time. and told her
( il she did not tell me where my girl VAS
would get her arrested. She said that
would not do me any good. for she did
not know at all where Annie was Thers
We're some men standing near by there.
and T asked whether any citizen would
arrest this woman. for believed shs
knew where my lost girl was
"Oue mana big man-came up ard
said he was an officer. and he asked me-
what charge 7 would make r talked 20
this Jennie KChn again. and told this
officer I would not have he- arrested.
What was the use? n she did not know.
she could not tell She told me that she
was living then at No. pa East 18th
street. I went there a couple OF days
after but they said she did not live
there. SO have not seen her since"
Mary Welsman said on Sunday She
thought Jennie Kohn and another girl
had gone West. But her statement
wasn't positive. She only thought so
FROM what she had heard.
Coroner Holtzhauser took Mary Weiss
man down To the Tombs yesterday.
where from a line of ten men she picked
Albert w. Wolter as the man with whom,
she had the dealings described Yesterday
in The Tribune. The police found other
girls, too. in the course OF the day whose
testimony is going 10 establish pretty
cOnclusively the truth OF Mary Weiss
mans assertions that Wolter has been
concerned in the white slave" traffic "A
cadet"
Three girls were found in Elizabeth.
y. j.. where Wolter once worked. WIN
told OF their own dealings with him and
of his activity among girls in that town
Wolter will hnd it hard to deny hi.
acquaintance with the girls. Their
names az pear with that OF Ruth XI-haal.-