The Cairo bulletin., 1910-03-27
bRUT Al MURDER
Of YOUNG GIRL
BODY FOUND IN SACK ON BAL
coNY OF TENEMENT FIRE
ESCAPE.
MURDERER IS ARRESTED
Girl Was Student OF Business College
and Was Lured to House by
Prospects Of EN-
ploymcnt.

New York. Maach &c. The boty
LOT Ruth Wheeler. a 15-year-oId girl
graduate Of business college, WHO
Twas Iured from her widowed mother
lby a decoy offer OF employment, was
found this afternoon, huddled In a
lgunny sack on the fire escape OF the
apartment OF Albert Wolter, the man
lcharged with her abduction, at 22a
East Seventyfifth street. She had
Ibeen strangled with short end of
Ithree-cighths inch rope, hacked with
a knife, burned beyond recognition
and thrust carelessly out OF doors
like so much rubbish.
Identification was only possible BY
Ishreds of clothing ana fragments cf
liewelry, but there was abundant evi-
dence OF how the murder was done.
lAround her neck were the charred
fbers Of MANILA burnt into the flesh.
!, The apartments reel1ed with the
odor OF kerosene. There were OIL
lstains in the front Of the newly
lpainted fire board that hid an open
lgrate. Fully dressed. the girls cloth
ling and hair had been saturated with
kerosene, the fireboard had been re-
Imoved aad the body thrust up the
chimney standing. When the match
touched her she burned like Il torch
4 Probably the murderer hoped for
an opportunity to remove the body
under cover Of night. but When tsle
,Igirl's disappearance raised such an
uproar, and he began 10 suspect that
he was being shadowed he packed
and fed In terror.
This afternoon a neighbor living on
the same floor of an adjoining house
noticed lumpy bundle outside his
window. and thinking it was refuse
he poked IL off the fire escape into
the back yard with 4 broom.
The bundle moved obstinately AMI
fell with a crash His curiosity
laroused, the ncighbor investigated
land called the police.
i The girl was carefully brought up
and her failure to come home in "a
hours caused her two elder sisters to
visit the college next morning. whore
lthcy learned that the following post
card had been turned over to Ruth:
Dear Madam: Please call in ref
erence TO position as stenographer at
residence Of secretary.
| (SIgned) A. WOLTER
l22 East One Hundred and Fifth
Street.
Investigation at the address given
showed that Wolter, whom the land
lady described as a sickly, whitefaced
youth of 20, with flashing clothes and
curled hair, had left the apartment
where he lived with his wife, earlier
the same day
Later Wolter was arrested in the
vicinity and at first denied, but later
admitted writing post cards to the
college. Before the magistrate he
had nothing to say.
The discovery of the body tedas
Immediately brought second search
lof VOTERS vacated apartments.
In the ashes In the fire place
lwere found the charred bones OF
human toes, portion of an arm bone.
a woman's garter and bundle con-
Italning mans nighshirt on which
was embroidered the letter "W.'
| The parents Of Wolter tonight told
Fin voluble but broken English Of the
Idiflculties their son had brought
Iupon them.
The mother OF young Wolter said
Tonight that their son had set up
housekeeping with woman to whom
he was not married Yesterday the
woman came to her with the news
THAT Albert was arrested, and the
mother accompanied her to the
court. When Albert was held on FIVE
thousand dollars bail on a charge OF
abiueticn. and the case put over.
Mrs. Voter ASKED the girl IL she
was going back to the apartment Al
bert nail vacated for her belongings.
"No. no. she says the Girl replied:
VI am never going back. Il is too
ghastly."
In the meantime the woman disapt
lpearel entirely. When her com
Ipanion was arrested the police hasi
limo suspicion of murder and did not
I feel that they had sufficient evidence
/, Ito hold her as an accomplice In what
'Ithey supposed NJ be simple abdnc-
Detectives who searched Woltet's
room said tonight they believe AZ