The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-27
TRAPPED AND MURDERED GIRL
ruin WHEEEEFS BODY FOUND
UNDER WOLTERS WINDOW.


s'enSSr~Vher Ana inc C"''@ % IN
was sens ." H'm ann stra"s'ed I'D I'VE
Mesms-~eay "arnea u 'ne CnSenss
eoesoenea Yer Hsoss ANS CeA' We
Oemes Leasing t@r H"s Woman
Ruth yh~.,.r N WAR, old. who onlv
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Madison avenue and Ftfty-ninth street..
went back 70 that school on Thursday
morpiUs 20 .~. IN I'm. .ohool lrn~w Of .nv
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the address Of Albert Wolter. "a East
Seventy nth street who had sent q past
card 10 the achooI aaLthr that n candiAssa
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""se'o' ~en' 70 see n''" A"ou' -" ."
Thursday morning and IN his nat she vas
murdered and an attempt was made u
burn up her body
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~ SiS "es' lawn s'Feet' se' out 70 "no NOV
@a~@ SNsAs 'N"sssNs-" So $3.50 - ~ -
school. They learned that she had bssn
there and that she had none TO answer
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'"'" :" H'"~'' ""''e' ''"""' on'y 70
hno 'oat no den'ed any knoWleoes os
their sister: but thew did not like his looks
and they went to the police OF the East
SASty-seventh street station.
Woltsr was arrested on Friday and
sent 10 cell yesterday morning under
.O0O bail, charged with abduction. o0ly
because Ruth Wheeler's two sisters tsls
convinced that he had done wrong. In
his rooms was found memorandum book
with Ruth Wheeler. o. a week wrtten
in ~ Yesterday afternoon Ruths BODY.
burned almost beyond recognition. YES
found az VOTERS home. and this morning
he will he charged with murder.
The police were revolted by the crime
so unexpectedly revealed TO them through
the prompt and enerRettc action OF two
young siEl=. Inspector Titus Capt cerey
of tho homicide baTssu. Capt. Hughes
OF the sixty seventh street station.
Coroner Holtzhaussr. Coroner's Physician
% HanlOn and at last Assistant Distrtct
Attorney Turnbull were all az the station
house. appalled, at the crime and paying
an altogether uncommon tribute OF
diKnihed silence and seriousness 70 the
SISTER herself only 20 years old-who
~ the day was ending looked upon the
cbsrred remains 81 Wcher's victim and
identified the child.
Police Captain Carey ~ the homtctds
bureau and Capt. Hughes II the Eass
Sixty-seventh street station went to the
iorkviile prison last night WITH dstec-
lives from Carey's bureau and a sfenog-
rapher from the District Attorneys
ONCE They began Questioning Woitsr
AZ go p. NJ and finished al ls:ss TINS
morning Wolter psrslstently denied ms
guilt He said he was an expert German
stenoGrapher and wanted TO exchange
lessons with an English stenosrapner-
He said also that he had been away fFom
home from $50 A. VI. Thursday - =. N
in Central Park and the museums De
denied eyer having seen Ruth WheeiSr.
although confronted with the memorHa-
dum book bearing ner name He d
admit writing 10 the school for sto-
nographer
Ruth Wheeler came of q hard worsir-s
respectable family. Her father. Iona
Wheeler. died doyeu years ago IN nls
service a. railroad man ~ Spuyten
Duyvil. having previously served a. an
engineer on the steamship I'm" 'etween
New York aud BcrmTda. and her moth r
then resumed work ~ a dressmak"r ~
supper, her four chihirar. whom So
succeeded IN educating for their work n
life There were four "f them Pearl.
Adelaide. John and Ruth A. each
reached the age where II was possinie To
20 10 work and contribute 90 'hc Safiii "a
sIpport sach f,rud a place. Pear. in
storms. Adelaide with " v Gregory kCo.
~ the Produce Exchange John with the
Standard al Cpmnsnv
Ruth. a. was said. was graduated iron
the school or,lv Iatelv. and a. the s~noli
makes u a point 20 'rv and holm ia . Ipiis
20 places she had gone hack there pe-'-
oticallv o ae- u -lI. coulc not gr' q piac,.
On Thursday morning she l-ft hom9 early
and wen, TO tho school ~ this quest. $40
wore a green coa'. white shrtwaas,.