Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-04-17
Charged with Brutally Mur- dering and Mutilating
 Body of Victim
CRIME COMMITTED
 BUT A MONTH AGO
Much Circumstantial Evi- dence Points Finger
 at Young Lad

NEW YORK, April 16.-The district attorneys office has completed all pre-. parations for beginning the murder trial of Albert Walter Wolter, which is on the docket for next Monday, to be called before Judge Warren W. Eos ter in Part V of the court of general sessions The defendant, Saxon boy of eighteen years, is charged with hay ing brutally murdered Ruth Amos Wheeler, handsome girl of fifteen years, and with having dismembered and partly burned her body. The crime which was committed less than month ago, was of an unusually brutal and fiendish nature and created considerable sensation at the time.
 Assistant District Attorney Frank Moss, who has been at work almost constantly since the discovery of the crime, collecting evidence against Vol ter, is confident of being able to con vict the accused of the crime with which he is charged. He has in his pos session what he considers strong chain of crcumstantial evidence, sufficient, he believes, to prove the guilt of Vol ter.
 The first link in the evidence. to be submitted by the prosecution will be the admission of Wolter that he wrote postal card to the Merchants and Bankers Business College, where Miss Wheeler had studied stenography, ask ing that stenographer be sent to his home at No. 224 East Seventy fifth street The card, which was handed to Miss Wheeler and which she prob ably had in her possession when she entered Wolter's apartment, has not been found, but the card was seen by several witnesses who particularly not ed upon it the impression of a rubber stamp, identical with that of stamp found in Wolter's possession. The fact that Wolter afterward denied having written to the college for a stenog- rapher is expected to count against him, when it is shown by the testimony of several witnesses that such card ac- tually existed and when Wolter's note book is produced in evidence, by which it is expected to show not only that Wolter had been in the habit of answer ing advertisements of stenographers ap- pIylHS TUT WOIh, DuG pidt ut udu WTlU- ten to the Merchants and Bankers Busi. ness College and had seen and spoken to Miss Wheeler In proof of the latter contention it will be pointed out that Miss Wheeler was known in the col lege and among her girl friends merely as Ruth Wheeler, as she never used her middle name, Amos. The fact that Wolter had entered Miss Wheeler $ name in his notebook as "Ruth Amos Wheeler,' ' will be pointed out by the prosecution as a proof that Wolter must have spoken with Miss Wheeler
 Next it is proposed to show that Vol ter's card was handed to Miss Wheeler and that she was seen to enter the Seventy-ffth street house soon after 9 a. m., March 23. The janitor of the building will testify that Miss Wheeler asked him for Wolter's $ flat and that she went upstairs after he had given her the proper directions. Nobody ever saw Miss Wheeler leave the house. It is expected to show that man answer ing Wolter s description was seen plac- ing two bundles upon the fire escape of Wolter's flat about 10 p. m. March 23. In one of the bundles was afterwards found the charred human body. which was positively identified as that of Ruth Wheeler. The other bundle contained, among other things, night shirt which