Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-30
PACT WITH CANADA Jury HOLDS W0[TER
Text of Tariff Agreement With Boy Charged With Murder of
Dominion Government. Little Ruth Wheeler. ;,
GETS MINIMUM SCHEDULE KATE MULLER TESTFiES
Items Transferred General Tells Of Painted Fireplace and
Is Concession Made Night Prowling
ENJOYS THEIR REPORT DEAD GIRLS SISTER ON STAND
of nd Mans Home Due
OF Nut Benefit. to Incne
Boy Charged With Murder of
Little Ruth Wheeler.
KATE MULLER TESTIFIES
Tells Of Painted Fireplace and
Night Prowling.
DEAD GIRLS SISTER ON STAND
Relate Incidents of Visits to 40.
cused Mans Home-Death Due
to Incineration.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 3O.-Coroner HoIts-
hauser's jury heard the evidence against
Walter Wolter this morning and held
him for 1.-The grand jury on the charge
of numbering little Ruth Wheeler.
No new evidence was brought out.
What there was sufficed to convince the
jurymen without even leaving their seats.
The witnesses against the young man.
in addition TO the police. included the
two sisters of the dead girl and the Ger
man girl who is supposed to love him,
Katie Muller
Wolter was taken to the coroner's trial
room a little after $40 o'clock. He wore
no collar and showed the effects of his
stay in the Tombs by an entire absence
OF the Jauntiness and dapper appearance
that was noted when he was arrested.
The testimony was brief Assistant
District Attorney Frank Moss examined
all witnesses.
Death Due to Incineration.
DR. O'Hanlon, the coroner's physician,
was the first witness called.
'On March 26.'' he said. Il performed
an autopsy on the body of Ruth Ames
Wheeler at the morgue. The cause or
death was incineration"
Miss Adelaide Rhoda Wheeler sister OF
the murdered girl. was next called TO
the stand. She was dressed all I'm black
When she lifted her veil from her face it
could be seen that her features, although
drawn and set. were undoubtedly pretty
The last time she saw her sister Ruth
alive. she said, was Thursday morning
She told OF her visit to the station-house
where she identified the string OF beads
found around the dead girls neck and
the hat pin found in the room, as Ds-
longing to her sister.
The third sister. Pearl Louise Wheeler.
SAID tnat when she came home Thurs
day evening and did not find Ruth she
went to the principal of the school from
where Ruth had gone to get q position.
Inc principal sent her to ri East 18th
street TO man named Wolter.
A girl opened the door," Here the
witness Identified the Muller girl, who
stood up In court, as the girl in ques-
| ton. She said Wolter was in bed
Wolter Denied knowledge.
L asked for my sister," she said.
"Wolter. who was in bed. said he did
not know what was talking about.
felt sure that he did know some
thing.
Il went back a second time with
| three policemen. This time Wolter
opened the door, and the girl was in
bed"
She told how she and the detectives
searched through the house without
finding trace of Ruth.
Il felt sure my sister was some
where about. | asked them to make
some arrests. But they said they did
not have enough evidence
She said she also identified the neck
lace and pin. Later she was recalled to
identify the umbrella which Katie
Muller said she took from the house
| Pearl Wheeler remembered that Ruth
had owned it.
Finding of the Body.
John R. Taggart testified to finding
| the burlap bag containing the girls
body on the fire escape, and of pushing
| it off into the yard.
Police Capt. Edward p. Hughes said
he was notified of - finding of the
| body at about 2:20 o'clock Saturday
afternoon He took the body to the
police station, where the identification
Policeman Devine of the East 61th
street station testified to searching
| the Wolter apartments. He found some
some small stuff.
Kate Muller's Story.
| Katie Muller looking little fearful
and quite frightened. was called to the
stand. She wore a round black hat
with a large blue plume. Her gray
suit, that once may have been smart,
looked shabby today.
| She said that she had been living
with wolter since December. 1909.
They lived in the East. 18th street
house for two weeks. before Wolter's
| arrest She went to work Thursday and
returned at 1880 o'clock.
Wolter was painting the fireplace
when she returned: The stove had
asked Wolter why he had done ii, he
replied that he painted it because the
moving of the stove had made II look
"On Friday night" asked District At
torney Moss. did WoIter get out Of
bed?"
Yes. twice"
! The first time, she said Wolter was
| he came back he said the fireplace had
| ia ylen. That was at midnight Two
hours later he got UP again.
HE was gone for some time working
the ssr He s9a sod up to se Sses
1 wanted to help him hx 1t. but he told
me he could do it,
He came to the bakery Friday at
o'clock and said he was going to leave
the house because OF the detectives.
AS Katie Muller left the stand she fsll
to weeping.
Jury Returns Verdict.
Coroner Holtzhauser charged the fury
as follows:
From the preponderance OF testimony
IL is evident that the death af Ruth
Wheeler ID the result OF terrible os1ms.
Therefore I charge YOU to hold this d.
fendant for the action Of tho gTan6 jury"
The members Of the coronsvfs 3uxy pHt
their heads together for Q feW uoonoqes.
Then the foreman, George 0ookoeE611,
announced that they aid % ohaeUsdT 3fAe.
ter was led back to tho Tumb1.
Band Of Gypsies Drowned.