New-York tribune., 1912-01-30
WO[TER DIES IN CHAIR
Meets Doom Calmly, Protesting
Innocence to the Last.
WRITES LETTER TO PUBLIC
Ruth Wheeler's Slayer Prays
Guilty" Person May Yet Be
Brought to Justice.

With the same stoicsm and the same
pro,estations OF innocence that had char
acterized his actions from the day OF MS
arrest. Albert W. Woltrr was put TO death
I'm the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison
Yesterday morning. The youthful slayer
of the fifteen-year- old girl. Ruth Wheeler
went 10 his doom with remarkable self
control The night before his execution ne
wrote statements avowing ne WAS ho'
guilty of the revolving crime for when ne
was convicted Among other letters was
one 10 his attorney. Wallace ID. Scott OF
No. 10 Broadway II was written on inc
prison stationery. headed NO 5oi hun'e'
street. Osslning. y. y and the handwit-
ing was even and frm. The letter follows
Wallace ~ Scott ESQ. Counsellor at Law
New York city. ..oool-
NV Dear Sir: a few lines TO say good
by - YOU and 70 give you ~! ~ ,n
thanks for what you have done Tor M.
shall soon present myself al Coo JuuH
mont bar and there / shall receive abso-
lutte pure Justice Remember always that l
am innocent OF the crime am conNlrt'u Va
You know that ! was entirely mlsrepl =,
sented ALI the way through that II was no,
prosecution. but persecution. Please looA
out that there will be no misrepresehtd
tions after I am gone. The sorro" OF Hls
dear parents IL great. 10 me ~ ~uta.n uaS sH 20
fear. being innocent death brings me W
glory. But my good and dcar mother mas
lost her only child. Please. dear MT t oco.ts
hold me I'm your memory as one saNeu'
who was maliciously prosecuted and conse-
auentlv suffeped "A great deal hut VINO mas mas
gone away. to a better life. where in)ustlce
! Il not known. I wish you the greatest sue
cess and happiness. Neiy slncerey crSvp SVp' -
ALBERT ". WOLTEk'
The young Germans letter was written
without hesitation. nothing altered In H.
nothing scratched out, each comma ana
each period marked as clearly as the rest
of Il Under the words II am innocent OF
the crime" and but persecution ne had
drawn strong ripping lines.
Another written statement. Gated a. III
and superscribed Warden j. ;. Kennedy
To be given 10 the public" read:
Nor that am departinl from this earth
to go into the presence of God, ! Wlsn 10
make this last statement. The world re-
fused me Justice but our Father In heaven
who knows our innernost lie VIII give "'o
pure and undefiled justice.
| wish To state ! am innocent OF the crime
/ was convicted Of. ! have been victim
OF circumstantial evidence nope that
there may come a time whtn the cohsclencS
~ the perpetrator will overpower nm ana
he will come to the front and acknowledge
his guilt. %, ~. tIa
II is my honest prayer 10 God that re
may bring the person guilty or the crime
ga Justice that my name may be cleared
of thIS stain and that the people may sec
the Injustice done me and that theN hIHeu
an innocent boy. - ,,.,. t,td
assistance and have trusted In me ! give
nv sincerest thanks. To those VINO nave
maliciously prosecuted and killed me. Tor
them pray for forgiveness
This letter, too, was written I'm the same
cool fashion. the handwriting almost feml-
nine I'm its neatness and precision, yet de-
cided and clear. and showing knowledge
OF language that has surprised those VINO
have followed the stories of the crime
II he was calm and unperturbed I'm his
letters. he was even cooler when he came
10 die When the procession passed to the
death chamber. Woter replied In iirm
voice to the prayers read IN German by
The Lutheran minister. the Rev + r. buer-
never AS he passed the other cells In the
deatb house he shouted to the prisoners.
screened from view
"Goodby TO you all, boys. Goodby,"
The execution took place at 5:3s O'Clock.
and the current was applied for sixty-three
seconds In less than minute after he
entered the room Wolter was dead I'm the
chair. DIR. +. A. Spitzka and Sheriff julius
Uarbureer. Coroner TIolthauser and Cor
oner's Physician Leblanc examined the body
with a stethoscope and satisfied themselves
OF death.
VOTERS father claimed the body. and II
WAS taken to an undertaking place, where
the mother put little bunch OF flowers on
the coffin furnished by the prison. There
was a short service I'm German by the Rev.
Mr.. Buermeyer. Then the father and moth
or took their sons body TO North Bergen.
n J.. where il was Immediately cremated.
Wolter lured Ruth Wheeler to his fiat at
No. 22i East 18th street through an adver-
tisement for a stenographer He choked
the young girl to death with rope, burned
her body and put the fragments I'm the Are
pIace Two days later. dogged by detec-
tiyes he was desperate and threw the body
wrapped In two bundles to the courtyard.
where the janitor found them.
He killed the girl March "a. 1910. One
month later he had been convicted. His
attorney, through hard effort. caused de-
laws i'm the law until last December. when
the sentence was definitely affirmed. Gov
ernor Dix declined to interfere.