The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-02
WOLIER PLEADS NOT GUILTY
COUNSEL DEMURS To THE IN
RgCTsENr IN VAN.

| Trial Get Tor April ~ Despite Lawyers
Protest That the Time o. Insuancient
To Prepare the Case witness Wh0
May Prove Other LettrTs Co women.
In spite Of his counsola effort. to s..cure
a delay Albert W Wolter. who Is accused
~ killing Ruth Wheeler. was forced
TO plead yesterday morning before Judge
Mulqueen in General sessions To the In
dictmsnt charging him with ths murder.
Wolter entered plea Of not guilty and
later in the day his trial was set down for
April IN in Judge Fosters part Of General
Sessions
wolter appeared perfectly sslf-pos-
sessed when hs was brought over from
the Tombs to the court and IL was svidsnt
that he had taken great pains with his
clothes and had visited the prison barber
Wallace d Scott. VOTERS counsel. first
moved TO dismiss the indictment on the
ground that one of the District Attorneys
stsnoRraphers had been present when
the testimony was taken before the Grand
Jury. Judge Mulqueen denied the mo-
ton and Scott entered a formal demurrer
TO the indictment on the ground that the
facts set forth did not constitute the
crime % murder IN the first degree The
demurrer was overruied. and Lawyer
scott having for the time bsing exhausted
his resources wolter made ms plea
When the question Of tho date Of tho
trial came up Mr. Saper. who 10 as@ociat'sl
with Mr. Scott in the defeno.. objsctsd
To what he termsd the unusual haste
after Assistant District Attorney Moss
had aid that h. considered week sum
cient time in which 10 prepare the case
for triaI After hearing Mr. SApsr Judge
Mulqueen sad:
This case ~ one % vast importance
TO the community II ought to b tired
promptly Nsvertheless. a. Il involves
the life 81 the defendant Il Ia fitting that
he should have a fair opportunity Tor the
preparatio on Of the case for trial. I have
conferred with my colleagues and we are
Of the opinion that ha should be granted
until Apnl Is. and the case will bs set
down for tha; date
Mr.. scott said later that he considered
that the rights % his client To- fair trial
were being overlooked IN the ATTEMPT
o. hurry the case He wanted more
time. he said. 60 inveSti gate the .videncs,
gathered by the polio" Mr. scott thought
too that u would he impossible 10 secure
an impartial jury M this county 70 try
Nolt.r 30 -oon after the pubic had b,-..n
npTTiisd by a Disgusting crime and he
IntImatsd that be might ask for a change
81 venue The lawyer said that in any
event has client would not be rushed u
the electric chair. a. he would exhaust
all his rights OF appeal " a conviction u
obtains-d IN General Sessions.
MIR. Scott said that while he had been
criticised for attempting To delay the
trial, he felt that he was doing no more
than justice 20 MS Cheut. whose Innocence
was u be supposed IN spite 81 the circum-
stances pointing 20 his guilt
Although the police and the District
Attorney have aid that they were salts
he'd with the strength - the case against
Wolter. they found a clue Yesterday
adding weight to the theory that Wolter
had lured young women To his apartment
IN the houss at 22t Fast seventy fifth
street. where he lived The information
came from Mrs. John Blake o. 4ta East
Eightieth street She told the police that
on the Wednesday preceding the murder
81 Ruth Wheeler a young woman about
IS years old called at the house where
Wolter lived and where Mrs Blake was
then helping the JanitreSs and asked for
WolteF. She said that Wolter had written
10 her in answer 10 her advertisement for
employment a stenogTapher
WOltsr was not at home and the young
woman did not wait 80 far as Mrs
Blake OF the Janltre~s knows she never
returned The police are trying to find
the young " oman and 90 esta blish through
her that NolteT cent out more than one
postal card % the sort that - believed TO
have caused Ruth Whee!er's visit 20 his