The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-28
MANY REVOLVING CRIMES CHARGED TO SLAYER OF
 PRETTY RUTH WHEELER
Young WOan Who Lived as Wife With German Youth, Under Arrest Gives Damaging Evidence Against the King of White Slave Drivers WOte Extremely Nervous Claims He'll Prove an A|ibi

body. which he then tried to burn up
 He cid burn the arms and legs com pletely up. though we have found the 1 bones in the fireplace. The body did
 not burn so easily, and he placed it in a burlap bag wrapped fin a shirt.
 Katchen Mueller admitted to us that
 the burlap bag had long been in the
 apartment as a rug in front of the
 kitchen Stove.''
 ''WE1y were there no b1oodstains in
 the fiat if the body was disnnembered
 there ?'' Coroner HoltzhauSer was ask
 ed
 There were bloodstains in the apart ment, lots of them,'' he said. '.The assailant probably spread paper out on the floor before he cut up the body and
 in that way kept blood off parts of the
 carpet. But in front of the newly painted fireplace the old carpet had been freshly washed with hot water to remove the bloodstainS. That part of the carpet was clean; the rest was filthy. We are examining the stains now''
 Coroner Ho1tzhauser removed a. DOT ton of the girls torso and sent it to lege of Physicians and Surgeons. who will make a. microscopic investigation to ascertain if the girl was assaulted.
 It is expected that the Grand Jury wilE within day or two, hand down an indictment charging Wolter with first degree murder. The police say they were satisfied that Katchen Mueller is innocent of any complicity in the crime though she will be held a material witness The police think she was at work when the crime house. though, when Adelaide Wheel CT, sister of the dead girl, came seek ing Ruth. After Adelaide was gone Katchen Mueller declares she chided apartment and he said he had sum- noned Miss Wheeler as a. "jolze.'' This is regarded as damaging evidence against the youth. who has all along maintained that he never saw the girl. During this time the police believe the body of Miss Wheeler was still in the a, zinc blower. over which as if to hide omething-maybe dstains-Wolterl had pasted a big show Autograph.
 A coroner's inquest will probably be held this afternoon.
 District Attorney Whitman will ques- ton the Mueller girl this afternoon and expects to get a complete state ment from her as to Wolter's habits. The latter still maintains his surly air in the ToTnbs but the keepers there declare he is showing indications of extreme nervousness and they look for 8, breakdown at any time.
 Today he was told that the Mueller girl had said that she was going to do some talking if he did not make al complete statement showing her inno- cence.
 Did she say taaat?'' he asked. eff she did she does not think how it | sounds. Please see her and tell her to shut up, or better than that tell | her I said to tell the truth and she | will know what I mean
 Wolter declared that he will be able to prove an alibi by a. friend from Elizabeth, N. J.. with whom he claims to have been all of last Thursday. The name of this friend. he says, he will reveal at the proper time. |
 Under a severe cross-examinationb by detectives the Mueller girl, added an- other link to the chain of circumstan- Efal evidence with which the police are surrounding Wolters.
 When got nome Thursday night I went to bed as i told you" she said, sbut about midnight I was awakened by a crash in the front room I called out: Who's there, and Albert answered telling me that part of the fireplace had fallen down and he was fixing it. He told me to go to sleep. About o'clock another noise woke me. jumped up and ran to the room. Albert was on his znees in front of the fireplace with lis hands back apparently showing ;omehthing into the grate. offered 0 help him but he ordered me to bed, ,elling me if did not go he would choke me to death.''