The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-04-16
WOLTER MURDER
TRIAL TO START
Preparation for the Trial of New
York Youth Charged With
FiendiSh Crime.
SLAIN GIRLS BODY Is BURNED
story of Crime Shows II to Be One
of Most Brutal on Record-Strong
Chain of Cireumstantial Evi-
dence Secured.

New York, April 16.-The dlstric
attorneys office has completed al
preparatlons for beginning the murde
trial of Albert Walter Wolter, whicl
Is on the docket for next Monday, 4
no called before Judge Warren w
Foster i'm Part V. of the Court o
General Sessions. The defendant, I
Saxon boy of eighteen years is charg
cd with having brutally murdered
Ruth Amos Wheeler, handsome gir
Of fifteen years, and with having dis
membcred and partly burned her body
The crime which was committed less
than month ago, was of an unusually
brutal and fendish nature and created
considerable sensation at the time.
Assistant District Attorney Frank
Moss, who has been at work almost
constantly since the discovery of tho
a me, collecting evidence against
Woltcr, Is confident of being able t.
convict the accused of the crime with
which he is charged. He has i'm his
possession what he considers strong
chain of circumstantial evidence, suf-
fcient, he believes, to prove the guilt
Of Wolter
The first link i'm the evidence to be
submitted by the prosecution will be
the admission of Wolter that he wrote
a 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
when she entered VOTERS apartment,
has not been found, but the card was
seen by several witnesses who partic-
ularly noted upon IL the impression
oi rubber stamp, Identical with that
Of a stamp found in WoIters possess
sion. The fact that Woiter afterward
denied having written to the college
for stenographer, is expected to
count against him, when il is shown
by the testimony of several witnesses
AitfAb aN'l ~ ftAiu ttludiiN tAlSltu anu
when VOTERS notebook is produced
in evidence, by which il is expected to
show not only that Wolter had been
in the habit of answering advertise
mcnts Of stenographers applying for
work, but that he had written to the
Merchants and Miners Business
College and had seen and spoken to
Miss Wheeler. In proof of the latter
contention il will be pointed out that
MISS wheeler was known in the col
lege and among her girl friends mere
" as Ruth Wheeler as she never used
her middle name, Amos. The fact that
Woltcr had entered Miss Whccler's
name i'm his notebook as Ruth Amos
Wheeler" win be pointed out by the
prosecution as n proof that Woltcr
must have spoken with Miss Wheeler.
Next it is proposed to show that
VOTERS card was handed to Miss
Wheeler and that she was econ To en-
Ter the Seventy fifth sire house
son after 8 a. m. March 23. he Jam
ior of the building will testify that
MISS Wheeler asked him for VOTERS
nat and that she went upstairs after
he had given her the proper directions.
Nobody ever saw Miss Wheeler leave
'he house 1t is expected to show
that man answering VOTERS de-
Fcripuon was seen placing two bundles
upon the fire escape of VOTERS fiat
dDOut 10 IA q
'he bundles was afterward found
charred human body, which was pos
luVely Identified as that of Ruth
wheeler The other bundle contain
eu' among other things, a night shirt
"INch Wolter acknowledged as his
property. Another strong link IS ex-
Peclcd to prove the fact that the UNI
Drella which Ruth Wheeler carried on
tne morning when she went to VOL
ter Hat, was found in the possession
OF Matte Miller, with whom Wolter
hNeu IN the fat on Seventy fifth street
ana with whom he moved to another
NAT III West One Hundredth and Fifth
'''eot alter the police had visited his
iooiiis on Seventy-hfth street.
Mr' Moss will prove by the testi-
inohy Of sales girl that wolter on
,'o afternoon of March 23. between
'"o ana three o'clock. purchased a can
" o'ack paint and a brush in GER
''in store and that he afterwards
painted the marble around the fire.
p'oce OF his fiat, presumably to cover
."e grease which had dripped on the
marble when Miss wheelers body was
euineu' He will also establish the
.a0' 'hat human bones, part of a shirt
lust such as had been worn by Miss
"neeler' her hatpin and puTs were
~. ,v'nu IN the stove and fireplace of
''ers fiat. Expert testimony will
~ introduced to provo that the grease
'uer the paint Of VOTERS fireplace
was human fat
!, Is expected that the defense will
"'ine a general denial of VOTERS
,,a scl' VIII cast doubt upon the iden-
unua''on n,, Of the body and of the hat
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