The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-27
CRUEL MURDER OF
GIRL IN NEW YORK
Another Revolving Crime Is
Added to List Of Horrors
HER BODY IS CREMATED
Younv Girl stenographer Is Lured 10 n
Flat and Is Murdered and Her
Body Thrust Into Chim-
ncy aud Burned

New York. March .-tspeeial)-one OF
the most revolving crimes ever PEI pc
trated in New York was uncovered 'iiis
afternoon when the eharred body OIL nun
Amos Wheeler. the 15-year-oid steho-
a,.,rt,sr VIM disappeared last Thursday,
was foun6 on the fire escape in the rear
Of No 222 East Seventy-hfth street. next
door 10 the house in which lived Aioeie
w wolter. now held on a charge OF homl-
oide 1yoher had been arrested on
chsree of abduction when II was foaha
that the girl had gone to his rooms Seen
ing a position as stenographer' put the
charge was changed when the BODY was
found. The body was wrapped IN an Oh
soaked gnnnysaek and was burned almost
bevond recognition. The legs had been
burned off almost to the thighs and the
arms almost to the shoulders. A charred
fragment of rope sticking To the neck
showed that the girl was stransled.
Wrapped up in the sack with the oooy
was package containing mans white
shirt. bearing the initial w The po-
lice believe It belongs TO Wolter. Inc
fire escape on which the body was first
discovered is of the balcony type and
was for the use of tenants of both Nos.
229tand 224. The fat occupied by Woiter
opened upon 1t.
Discoveries BY Police
The police made a careful examination
of the apartments Wolter had occupied
and discovered that fireboard protect
ing the wall from the stove had been re-
aif,fa me- rpnlaceO. Inc
condition of the CRATE was such that the
police believe that the body was wrapped
in cloth or papers, saturated with OIL,
pushed into the chimney and set on fire.
Nh blood was found which strengthens
the belief that the girl was strangled.
The body was taken to the station where
it was later positively identified as that
of Miss Wheeler by Robert Mcleod,
friend of the Wheeler family, who has
been aiding in the search. Mcleod maze
the identification by means of string OF
TURQUOISE beads around the neck OF the
bodv. Further examination showed the
manner of death, a fragment of three
eighths-inch Manila rope being found ao-
herring to the left side of the neck. The
head and body were badly charred, but
the teeth remained intact.
In the bundle with the body was ne"
paint brush with red handle. The
DIlStleS were Sllil Will bldeh PsN4'tN 49,
the brush evidently had been used In
painting the fireboard in the Wolter apart
ment. Later a can partly filled with
black paint was found in the rooms occu-
pied by Wolter at No 122 West One Hun
bred and Fifth street, where he and his al
legged wife went after leaving the East
Seventy-fifth street house.
smell of Kerosene
Several of the tenants of Nos. 222 and pa
told the police that late on Thursday night
or early Friday morning they noticed
strong smell of kerosene. Mrs. John Tag
CART said she heard a noise on the fire
escape outside her window and thinking
there might be burglar there she crept
to the window and looked out She saw
the bundle and believed the noise she
heard was made by the bundle being
pushed from the window of the next
apartment The police are searching the
city for a girl who lived with Wolter. Her
name is said to be katherine Miller. She
is believed to have been employed some
where in the city and once worked as a
telephone girl, but no trace of her, her
family or her former employers las been
found. -
INQUIRY at the Merchants and Bankers
Business college at Madison avenue and
rty-eighth street this afternoon. brought
out the information that Ruth Wheeler
entered the school about six months ago
and was graduated as a stenogra pher two
weeks ago. Her mother had brought her
to the school.
Very Bright Girl
The girl learned easily and was very
bright, finishing the course in two weeks
less than the time usually required. She
was classified as smart and the school
authorities predicted that she would
make a first-class stenographer. Her con-
duct at the school was above reproach.
From fragments of postal cards found in
his room 1t is believed that Wolter made
practice of writing to the business
college to send him girl stenogra pliers.
lie had a wide correspondence with these
girls and many of them had called on him.
In the past few months he had lived at
three different addresses.
The cancellation of sonfe of the stamps
indicates that Wolter was In correspond
ence with girl graduates of business COL
leges all over the east Many of his
callers are believed to have come from
out OF town.
Crazy About Woman
New York. March 25.-Tne parents OF
Albert Woiter who were found tonight