Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-04-16
Girl WAS MURDERED
STEN0GRAPHER LURED AWAY
BY WANT AID.
Evidence Against A. w. Walters Is
Damaging-May Be Other Victims
Looks Like He Tried to Conceal the
Crime by Burning the Body-Was
Identified by Parts Of Dress Goods.

New York, March 2s.-One OF the
most revolving crimes ever perpetrated
in New York was uncovered when the
charred body of Ruth Amos Wheeler,
a 15-year-old stenographer, who disap-
peared last Thursday, was found on the
fire escape in the rear of No. 222 East
Seventy fifth street, next door to the
house in which lived Albert w. VOL
terts, now held on a charge of homicide
Wolters had been arrested on a
charge of abduction when it was found
that the girl had gone to his rooms
seeking position as stenographer, but
the charge was changed when the body
was found.
Handkerchief Is Clue.
The body was wrapped in an oil
soaked gunnysack, and was burned al
most beyond recognition. A charred
fragment of rope sticking to the neck
showed that the girl was strangled.
Wrapped up in the sack with the
body was package containing man s
white shirt bearing the initial "W."
The fire escape on which the body
was first discovered is of the balcony
type, and was for the use of the ten
ants of both No. 222 and 224. The
fiat occupied by Wolters opened on it.
The police made a careful examina-
tion Of the apartment WOlters had Oc-
cupied and discovered that FIRE board
protecting the wall from the stove had
been removed. newly repainted and re-
placed. The condition OF the crate was
such that the police believe that the
body was wrapped IN cloth or papers,
saturated with oil, crushed into the
chimney and set on fire.
No blood was found, which strength
ems the belief that the girl was
strangled.
The body was first discovered by John
( Taggart, who lives in No. 222, who sup
posed the bundle TO be garbage and
e pushed il over the railing into the yard.
p The fall burst the bag, and attracted
e the attention of John Woshl, who saw
- IL contained the fragments Of a body,
b and notified a policeman.
I'LL NAoAcA anu DNAAeN-
In the bundle with the body was q
new paint brush with a red handle.
The bristles were stiff with black paint,
and the brush evidently had been used
/. la painting the 1Ie-board in the Vol
/ tiers apartments. Later, can partly
filed with black paint was found la the
rooms occupied by W0ltere at no. l22
West One Hundred and Fifth street,
where be and has alleged wife went
after leaving the East Seventy fifth
street house.
Several OF the tenants told the police
that late on Thursday night or early
= Friday morning they noticed strong
smell 0f kerosene.
From fragments Of postal card
found in be room a a. believed that
Noliers made q praeuee W writing ~
business colleges 20 send ban girl
sfenogaphen.
Ne bad wide correspondence VIII
+. fhese girls and many of them called
. on him ln fle pafi fer months M
u bad lived AZ three different addresses
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