The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-21
'fHBNURDER 0PRUTH WHEELER
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WhssssF's-slsesrs TESTIFY Abeaf eAs
Vsungsst &C An. ana t0ansaRy @aF
ClSehsA. 0vnamsn@ ana mraidsd HlalF.
Ths trial Of Albert woltsr. ohargsd wish
tho murder % Gfassa-ysAr-old Ruth AnasD
Whealsr. who came % him &C his instance
10 gst work - . sosnogrAphsr. wuns %
from 10 O'Clock 70 In General Sessinnp
yesterday and hardly q minute passSd
whsn testimony Of a highly dramatic
character or of almost intolerAbls pafhus
was not given. Medical experts tssslaad
that thsre was unmiseakable evidsnce 40
tho autopsy that the girl had been out.
ragged. than straasled. and then burnsd
while she was ssiT breathing. Anothaw
witness showed 10 the jury tho poor littie
shrivsllsd. half burned hand. In tho palm
Of which. NOT all destroyed by fro. wsrs .
dozen hairs and not Ruth whselsr's hair.
This same witness. DIR. George 3. Hunt
ington. professor Of anatomy In tho
Collage Of Physicians and surGsana.
testified that In the sweepings from the
fireplace In VOTERS room which had hsem
sant to him for examination no disuovs
cred attached 20 some burned assh Rold
ring. This ring tho murdered giFl's slstsr
idsntifed 40 having been worn by Ruth
Wheeler on the rainy day she started CUT
early in the morning looking for her aFue
employment after graduation from o
commercial school.
In addition % the story told by the edo.
tern OF the household alarm over the disaps
psaFanos OF Rnth. the youngest. and thslr
all night search for her. Mr.. Moss SUBJ
mitted TO them for identihcation dosam
bits % physical evidence. tho braid az
hair almost untouched by thu fire. out from
Ruth's head. her ring. her umbrella.
charred remnants Of her outer and under
waist. the ribbon with which she tied hsr
underwaist. and the ring. While they
wers identifying these bits Of evidence
their mother tainted. but the two young
women went bravely through their or
deals.
They were dressed in deep mourning.
spoke in low. agreeable voices. and 40
their stories were disclosed IL was revealed
that the sister Of whom they testified had
bSsn their pet: the ring had been q prsssas
from one. the umbrella from another. .
piece OF charrsd embroidery was rScog-
AiBed shecauss mother made Il and
sawed IL on: the ribbon with which the
undsrwaist Was aisA wAs identiisa because
Of peculiar knot which taught Ruth 20
make: tho braid Of hair was recognised
because OF q popularity in the braiding
about which they had often spoken
While Adelaide Wheeler was telling her
story in the morning the court room was
In absolute silence. the faces OF the jury
men became drawn and some OF thoss
who sat In the box took no pains to con-
ceal their tears. or all In the room only
wOlter. thu defendant. apE,eared indif-
fersnt He sat unmOved between q uni
formed court officer who guards him and
one OF his lawyers.
POLICE NARRATIVE oP TIE CASE.
Mr.. Moss called M the slrst witness
Jennie Fischer. clerk in n and 10 cent
store. who on the afternoon of the day
Ruth Wheeler Disappeared sold to Wei
ter a can Of green paint and paint brush.
She Unhesitatingly identified him. Polioo
Captain Edward p. Hughes testified that
on the evening of Thursday. March -.
the day Ruth Wheeler disappeared. tho
manager of the commercial school IN
which sine had studied stcnography tele-
phOned 20 him about IL. The nrzt day his
men brought to the station house in Fast
Sixty seventh street two trunks whi-A
they had taken from the fat into which
wolter and Katie Mueller moved the day
after the search began. The witness
found In VOTERS trunk a memorandum
hook which contained this entry:
Ruth Amos Wheeler. nged IS. Ameri-
can. lives with parents. 81 n week
On Saturday came ths discovery ~ thu
charrcd body in the yard hack % 37s
Fast Seventy fifth street. He identtns4
the bag in which the body had been packed
with q lot of refuse paper and also the
shirt which with larger bundle a nsigh-
boring tenant had thrown from the Arc
eecape. Wrapped up in the shirt wers
some corset ateels and charred refuse and
in the sleeve OF the shirt was a ptscs Of
wire. The body was taken to tho station
house and there identified by Adelaide
Wheeler. who also identified bead neck-
lace around the neck Of tho body.
And was anything slse around the
nechi- Mr. Moss asked Yes repitsd
tho witness; "a piece OF rops sunk into
tho nssh Around tho legs was . piece
OF wire similar to the loose piece found
in the sleeve % the shirt"
One by one Mr.. MOSS assistant pro-
duoed q SCORE OF little boxes. each Coo
which Adelaide and Pearl WhselsF were
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