The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-03-28
Friend Lured Stenographer to
Death by Note
FATE OF RUTH WHEELER
Who Sought Work as stenographer al
the Home Of Albert w. wolter
IN New York Wolter
Is Held.

New York. March 2s.-The body 81
Ruth Wheeler, the little girl graduate.
who was lurcd from her widowed mother
en- Thursday last by a decoy offer 81
employment. was found late Saturday
huddled IN a gunny sack on a fire escape
outside the apartment Of Joseph NQiier,
the man charged with her abduction. She
bad been straneled With q short end of
three-e igltsinch rope. hacked with a
knife, burned beyond recognition, and
thrust carelessly ont 81 doors Ike 20
much rubbish Identification was only
possible by means Of shTeds Of clothing
and fragments 81 jew elry but there was
abundant evidence oi how the murder
had been done Around the neck were
the chafred fbers Of manila burnt into
the flesh The apartment reeked with
the odof az Kerosene. There were oil
stains n front Of the newly painted
irehoard that bid an open CRATE. The
girls clothing ard hair had been sat-
urated with Kerosene, the ilrehoard had
been removed, and the body thrust up
the chimney standing and sec FIRE to.
Saturday afternoon a neighbor living
noticed the bundle outside bis window
and. thinking it refuse p0ked e eff the
ere escape into the backyard with 4
broom handle The bundle fsl with 3
crash. with his curiosity more than
bis suspicious aroused he hurried down
stairs 70 have The ianitor investigate.
When the two ratn cut the strings that
bound the sacking, there rolled ont be-
fore them the full horror Of an atrocious
murder Both aed for tia police
Ruth Wheeler was 10 years old, the
youngest OF three sisters bred by their
mother, q drsssmaker. to self-snpport
Both The elder sisters were stennNa pliers
and Ruth had just graduated from a
business school An employment agency
for graduates Is conducted By The school,
and Ruth called there often 70 look FOR
4 situation. Thursday morning she left
home on her usual GRAND AMI never
returned The girl had been carefully
brought mp She was never on the streets
at night and her failure 10 come home
for "a hours without explanation meant
more than q caprice TIE next morning
her sisters. Pearl and Adelaide IN serious
concern, went to the school and learned
that the following post card had been
turned over to bert
Dear Madames Please call IN refer
ence 70 position as stenographer at resi-
dence Of the secretary. a. Wolter.
@222 East Seventy-dfth street"
investigation al the address given soon
showed chat Wolter a youth Of about
20. had left the apartment where he lived
- l. Ca ST tr4 Il
he received many calls from young girls
said the landlady, and she had partieu
larly noticed that the one who called
Friday was fresher Of face and better
dressed than the ordinary run of them
Wolter had fled the detectives waited
for his wife When she appeared. they
trailed her 10 a corner whore She met a
man answering VOTERS description He
was Immediately arrested, taken back to
the rooms he had vacated and searched
At first he denied writing postal cards
to business schools, bit when the detect
ives turned up answers from business
schools addressed to him at various
house numbers he admitted the GORE
spondence, but could not explain III
Before a magistrate he had nothing to
say. but to Others he admitted that the
woman with whom be was living was not
Ills wife. Tie met her soon after coming
to this country from Germany two years
ago, he saids they fen IS love and sat
IT'D housekeeping last summcr he and
SHE had worked at lrvington, N Y. at
a boardinghouss They went to New
York City last month, and since then the |
had supported him BY working
ii laundry
The discovery 81 the body Saturday
caused second search Of /
lYolters vacated apartments and 3 rigid /
examination 81 the tenants adjoining. |
IN the ashes Of the fireplace were found |
The chamed bones OF q woman's toes. a I
portion oil an arm bone, a woman's gar
Ger, ana bundle containing a mans I
night shirt, on which was embroidered I
The initiRl wv"
Wolter was committed to the Tombs
without bail yesterday charged with the
grl's murder At a continuation Of the
police quiz to which he was subjected
saturday night. he persisted yesterday IN
sis deuials that ia had ever seen the
1irl. ever had written to her or knew
low her body came to De on the fire
Escape outside his window, on why frag
nents af human feet hands and arms,
ii partly incineFated, were found IN the
fishes OF his fire place.
The parents of Wolter were found
Saturday night The father, d piano
amer from Dresden. Germany. said that
Albert was two years younger chan tie
sge lie gave Tie police, being IS. Tic I