Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-21
VOTERS TRIAL
IS FASTENED BY
THE PROSECUTION
Testimony of States Witnesses
Will All Be in TOmOr-
row Afternoon.

NEW YORK, April 21.-1t was prom
Used, when the trial of Albert Wolter
for attacking Ruth Wheeler and
strangiing and burning her to death
raj resumed today, that the prosecu-
ton would complete its case by tomor-
row at the latest. VOTERS defense
could then hardly be put in before adj
journment over to next week. and the
probability is that the case cannot be
finished before Tuesday. But even in
that cas- the trial would go on record
as the speediest of n notable Grim
inal hearing in New York in many
years.
Almost the entire ganut of sensation
vas run at yesterdays session Of the
trial. Testimony in an effort Il show
still more clearly that the charred hand
of the ~15-year-old stenographer victim,
the production of which caused so pro-
found an impression in court yesterday,
pointed an accusing finger VOTERS
ia vas expected from the prosecu-
ton.
wolter greeted his lawyers with a
smile n began at once to play close
attention to the proceedings. John
Mehi, janitor of the flathouse in which
Wolter lives and where Ruth Wheeler's
body was shown to nave been placed in
a ~gunnysack on the fire-escape after
having been partially burned in the
fireplace in VOTERS room, was re-
called. He was asked whether there
was a ladder from the fire-escape in
the rear OF VOTERS fat to the floor.
He answered in the negative.
1t was apparent that this testimony
was intended to offset any later claim
that some unknown person came down
from the roof, entered VOTERS apart
mcnt and committed the crime charged
to the prisoner.
The entrance into the fat house on
the morning of the crime of a girl an
swering Ruth Wheeler's description
vas testified to by Mohl's wife. The
girl had a card in her hand and car
ried IN umbrella. and after pushing
the button which rang the bell in VOL
ter's apartment. opened the o when
the latch was sprung from up above and
went upstairs. She never saw the girl
come out.
After clinching the Identification of
q number of the exhibits previously
made in the case, the prosecution pro-
duced some new ones which it called
Coroner Holzhauser to identify. These
consisted of parts of the fireplace and
the marble hearth in VOTERS
The face of the marble bore black
smears, which, the coroner said had
been made with paint. The hearth vas
turned over and ON the other side the
courtroom audience saw. heavy red
stains. Which seemed to have been
caused by percolation through the pores
of the hearth, Corner Holzhauser
said the stains We're blood
Coroner Holzhauser testified that h
picked out from the fireplace twenty
five pieces of bone, including parts OF
legs. arms. toes. fingers and pieces of
the skull lone. He found also the hat
pins. the corset steels and hair.
Detective James Devine told of a
conversation he hal with Wolter after
arresting him. in which Wolter said he
sent the postal cards asking airls 70
come to him for employment. He sd
mitted writing several postcards, but
denied writing the card to Miss
Wheeler.
IT asked him what he had done on
Friday morning. and h said he had
left the house at $50 o%'cloc'l in the
morning. went to a store in Third ave-
nue. and bought a can Of paint and a
brush there; went 10 Central PARK end
about noon had gone to a bakeshoD in
Third avenue. and then returned to
the Seventy-ffth street apartment n
PAINTED the fireplace. 7 asked him why
he aid that and he said 1t was because
he wanted to make the place look a
little better. He said he didn't know
anything about the Wheeler girl"