New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-28


things in the kitchen. TIE old sacks
which had been used for kindling wood
had been removed also.
Miss Mueller said that while SHE was
admiring the work done by her com
panion Miss Adelaide Wheeler asked 20
| be admitted into the fiat. This accord
! ing TO the woman, was the first time thdt
| she had heard of Wolter being interested
| in another woman. Miss Wheeler de-
msnded her sister. She was refused in
| formation and shortly afterward re-
turned with policeman
| The woman described VOTERS de
meanOr during the examination OF the
apartment by the policeman. She said
/ that he appeared To be nervous and that
he finally admitted having sent a postal
| card in answer TO an advertisement
which had been inserted in a morning
newspaper by Miss Lembrecht the see
rotary Of the Merchants and Bankers
I Business College, where Miss Wheeler
was a student.
The Quarrel with Woiter.
Then followed the quarrel. and Wolter
|
/ that Ruth Wheeler had answered the
advertisement, although his postcard
was addressed 10 Miss Lembrecht He
! told her that the girl had left the apart
ment when he explained that the post
card was q hOaS. The woman said that
/ the quarrel became so bitter that she
cried. and finally WoIter assured her that
he had meant no harm N communicate
! ing with the business school.
Miss Mueller then told OF VOTERS sud
den determination to move from the
apartment. He called at the bakery
where she was employed on Friday
afternoon, she told the police, and then
arranged, 10 meet her that evening at
Park avenue and S0th street He an
nounced that the apartment was not 70
his liking and that he would seek an
other one. She was instructed 20 pre-
pare for a hasty removal
UnwittingIy Leads Detectives.
That night (Friday) the police again
called al the Wolter apartment The
man had kept his word and did not re-
turn at the dinner hour. Miss Mueller
waited until it was near the appointed
time. Then she hurried to the place
from where the detectives and the dead
girls sisters trailed the man and woman
10 the furnished room house in East
105th street, where the arrest OF Wolter
lifted the first covering from the shroud
of circumstances which covered the
crime
While Miss Mueller recited her story
Of the events around the murder, a sig
net ring with the initial Wv" on it
shone on her finger. The girl said that
the jewelry was gift from Wolter. and
then she broke down as she sobbed~that
Wolter had always been kind 10 her
Katchen Mueller alone defended VOL
ter. The father and mother OF the Young
man denounced him in unmeasured
terms. They had banished him from
their home six months ago, and he had
blazed his trail with deeds OF disgrace.
Mr.. Wolter and his wife We'd with each
other in condemnine him, and they said
they had rot the shadow OF r doubt con-
corning his guilt
Parents Abandon Wolter
VOTERS parents did not realize until
yesterday the full horror Of the crime
with which he was charged. Then thew
turned from him in dismay The last
cords which bound mother and son were
torn by tho discovery Of the rovoItin-
crime charged against him. Mrs. Voter
had gone 10 his side when he was ar
raigned in the Torkville police court on
Saturday, but yesterday even maternal
love was dispeued.
The father shr2nk with horror as nc
heard the description Of the murder
which had been done in his sons apart
ment, He weighed the evidence which
the police had collected during the day.
and then when ne heard the story told
by Mrs. TagEert and Katchen Mueller
he gave up in despair lie knew Fhat
ii meant before the law. and he declared
that the yourg man need not count on
the aid al his family when ne battles for
his life before q jury.
There can be no insanity plea, accord
Ing to tho yourg mans parents. They
were sure that he had never acted like
half-vitted or demented youth. On
one side his character had shown thar
he was tiuid, SO t,mid that even mouse
frightened him on the other and neav-
| Ter side. TIE youth often exhibited
| temper which the father said was re-
sponsibIe for the tearing % the family
/ ties last summer
Autopsy Reveals Details.
Another chaptcr WIS r6ded 10 the story
of the method Is which Ruth Wheeler
met her death when the autopsy was
performed b., Coroner Physician oTIan-
lon He found enough Of her lungs AMI
| her arteries in the caarred remnants oI
the body to make the exact cause OF
death certain.
The sirl had ir-t been strangtcd
Then. with her heart still beating, she
was placed il the chimney crevice where
the fumes o. tine kerosene and the biaZ-
/ ing clothes filled her lungs fo- the last
time. II his official report Or OHanI1u
( sand THAI nsphyXia had followed st~ao-
suIation.
The lungs Of t1e dead girl ucr. uni
! formly "onsested anG showed - DEPOSIT
of SCOT which indicated To the doctors