The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-04-16
IS READY TO BEGIN
WO[T[R TRIAL

New York, April 16.-The district
attorneys office has completed all
preparations for beginning the MUIR
der trial of Albert Walter Wolter,
which is on the docket for next Mon
day, to be called before Judge War
rem w. Foster in Part v. of the Court
of General Sessions. The defendant.
a Saxon boy of eighteen years, is
charged with having brutally MUIR
dered Ruth Amos Wheeler, a hand
some girl of fifteen years, and with
having dismembered and partly burn
| ed her body The crime which was
! committed less than month ago,
was of an unusually brutal and fen
dish 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
Wolter, is confident of being able to
convict the accused of the crime with
which he is charged He has in his
possession what he considers strong
chain of circumstantial evidence, suf-
ficient, he believes to prove the guilt
of Wolter.
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 stenogra-
ply, asking 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 probably had in her pos
session when she entered VOTERS
apartment, has not been found, but
the card was seen by several witness
es who particularly noted upon it the
impression of rubber stamp, iden-
teal with that of a stamp found In
VOTERS possession. The fact that
Wolter afterMard denied having writ
ten to the college for stenographer,
is expected to count against him.
when it is shown by the testimony OF
several witnesses that such card
actually existed and when Wolter's
notebook is produced in evidence,
by which it is expected to show not
only that Wolter had been in the
habit of answering advertisements OF
stenographers applying for work, but
that he had written to the Merchants
and Bankers Business College and
had seen and spoken to Miss Wheel
er. In proof of the latter contention
it will be pointed out that Miss
Wheeler was known in the college
and among her girl friends merely
as Ruth Wheeler, as she never used
her middle name, Amos. The fact
that Wolter had entered Miss Wheel
er's name in his notebook as Ruth
Amos Wheeler will be pointed out
by the prosecution as a proof thai
Wolter must have spoken with, Miss
Wheeler.
Next it is proposed to show that
VOTERS card was handed to Miss
|, Wheeler and that she was seen tC
enter the Seventy-fifth street house
|. soon after 9 a. M, March %. The
janitor of the building will testify
that Miss Wheeler asked him fol
VOTERS flat and that she went uI
stairs after he had given her the
proper directions. Nobody ever saw
Miss Wheeler leave the house. 1t is
expected to show that a man answer
placing two bundles upon the fire
escape of VOTERS flat about 10 p.
M, March 3d. In one of the bundles
was afterward found a charred hui
man body, which was positively iden-
titled as that of Ruth Wheeler. The
other bundle contained, among other
things, a night shirt which Wolter
acknowledged as his property. An
other strong link is expected to prove
the fact that the umbrella which
Ruth Wheeler carried on the morn
ing when she went to VOTERS flat,
was found in the possession of Matte
Miller, with whom Wolter lived in
the flat on Seventy-fifth street and
with whom he moved to another flat
in West One Hundred and Fifth
street after the police had visited his
rooms on Seventy-fifth street.
Mr.. Moss will prove by the testi-
mony of sales girl that Wolter on
the afternoon of March %, between
two and three o'clock, purchased a
can of black paint and brush in
a certain store and that he afterwards
painted the marble around the fire
place of his flat, presumably to cover
the grease which had dripped on the
marble when Miss Wheeler's body
was burned. He will also establish
the fact that human bones, part OF
a shirt waist, such as had been worn
by Miss Wheeler, her hatpins and
puffs were found in the stove and
fireplace of VOTERS flat. Expert
Testimony will bo introduced tn Drovo