Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-27
G|RL-.GRAOUATE
LURED TO
DEATH
MUTILATED REMAINS OF
MURDER VICTIM FOUND
Burned Beyond Recognition and
Hacked With Knife Body Is
Discovered on Fire EScapei
Suspect Arrested.

lBy Morning journal Special Isssed wirel
New York. March 26.-The body
OF Ruth Wheeler. little girl graduate
who was lured from her widowed
mother Thursday last by q decoy offer
of employment was found late this af-
ternoon in a gunny sack on a fire
escape outside the apartment Of Al
bert Wolter the man charged with
her abduction. She had been stran-
I glcd with a rope, hacked with a knife,
liburned beyond recognition and thrust
carelessly out of doors like SO much
rubbish
Identification was possible only by
shreds Of clothing and fragments OF
! jewelry but there was abundant evil
dence of how the murder had been
done. Around the neck was the char
! red dbers of manila burnt into the
/ flesh The apartment reeked with the
/ odor of kerosene. The girls failure
to come home alarmed her parent.
The elder sisters, Pearl and Adelaide
went to the college and learned that
the following post card had been
turned over to her;
] Dear Madam Please call in ref
erenee to position of stenographer NJ
residence of secretary.
tsigned) A. Wolter,
224 East 18th street
There were oil stains in front OF thr
newly painted fire board that hid I'M
open CRATE in VOTERS apartments.
FUZZY dressed. 4he girls clothing and
hair had beer sa.1;ateI with zero
scne, the fire board had been rcmov-
I'd and the body thrust up rhe chin
ncy, standing. When the match iyas
touched to her She burned ike a
torch.
Ruth Wheeler was Is years OLD.
the youngest Of three sisters, en-
couraged by their mother. dress
maker, to self-support. Ruth had
Just graduated from At business coll
lcge and was eager for employment.
An employment agency for graduates
is conducted by the college and Ruth
called there often to look for a sit
uation. Thursday morning she left
home ON her usual errand ana never
returned
Investigation at the address given in
the letter-sfie received showed that
Woltor. whom his landlady described
as~a sickly. white faced youth of about
twenty with hashy clothes ana elab-
orately curled hair. She said he had
left the apartment where he lived
with his WIFE earlier on the same
day He received many calls from
Young girls. said the landlady, and
she had noticed particularly that the
one who called Yesterday was fresher
Of face and better dressed than the
ordinary run.
With Wolter gone, the detectives
waited for his wife and when she APP
peared they trailed her until she met
man answering VOTERS description.
He was arrested and taken back to the
rooms he had vacated. At first he
denied writing post cards to business
schools but later admitted the cores
pondencc, but could not explain it.
Before a magistrate he had moth
ing to say but to others he admitted
the woman with whom he was living
was not his wife He met her shortly
after coming to this country from
Germany. two years ago he said; they
fell in love ana set up housekeeping.
Last summer he and she. had worked
at Irvington- Hudson in
boarding house. They came to this city
last month ana since then the w"-
man had supported him by working
in a laundry
The discovery of the body today
Immediately brought a second search
of Wolters vacated apartments In
the ashes of the ire place were found
The charred bones of human toes.
portion OF an arm bone, woman's
garter and a bundle containing
mans night shirt on which was em-
broidered the initial W.
VOTERS parents found tonight, told
of the difficulties their son had
brought upon them.
He was always crazy about wo-
men" said the mother. From the
time he was a little boy it was always
dancing. pleasure, women and more
women with him"
The father. piano twnrr, from
lleHNtil. 6tlndhNf SRit -Aif'iN Nf'3
two years younger than the age lac
had given the police.
The boy had been born out of we'd
lock eighteen years ago. but when the
parents came To this country they re-
married The father found work for
Albert. who stole $500 from his en-
ployers. the father said. and fled, but
was caught, the father paid back the
money and had not seen his son
since.
In a vague way the mother how
ever. had kept in touch with her SON
She knew he had set UP housekeeping
with II woman whom he had not mar
ried and when the woman came to her
with news that Albert had been ar
rested. the mother recognized her and
her 10 court When
Albert was held n $1,000 hail