Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-29

NOW thai l am leaving this world
to 90 into the presence of my God, |
make this last statement. The world
refused me justice. l have been a VIC
tim Of circumstantial evidence. hope
there will come a time when the con-
science of the perpetrator Of this
crime will verpower him and he will
acknowledge his guilt.
This is my earnest prayer; That
the perpetrator of this crime is brought
to Justice that I may be cleared and
the public will see that a great injus-
tice has been lone me n have Killed
an innocent boy.
ITO those who have given me their
kind assistance and have helped me |
give my sincere thanks. To those who
have maliciously prosecuted me I pray
their forgiveness"
Executed at $3.50 a.. m.
Wolter was led into the death cham
Der from murderers' row and strapped
to the electric chair shortly after 5:3O
o'clock. AT 5:3S the current was turned
on. Wolter was officially pronounced
dead three minutes later.
The shock was 1880 volts strength
and his was applied alternately one
minute n a quarter of a minute.
The spectators of the execution were
surprised al the wonderful fortitude
which the young slayer showed. IL
Wolter felt any inward fears he did not
allow ~trepidation to manifest itself
outwardly in any way.
VOTERS aged father and mother and
his spiritual adviser had been work
ing with him a week in an endeavor
to persuade him to confess, If he were
guilty. but Wolter stubbornly persisted
in denying his guilt. Just before he
was led from his cell, IN hour before
dawn and in the presence of death,
| Wolter resisted to the last appeal to
confess.
LAS God is my judge, l know nothing
about how that girl died." was the per-
sistent reply which Wolter had made TO
the entreaties of his old white-haired
mother to confess, If he were guilty,
and he reiterated this to the end.
No sleep ON Last Night.
Wolter did not sleep a wink during
his last night on earth. AT midnight
he rose from his cot and asked for
pen and paper. From memoranda
which he carefully prepared for a
week Wolter write his statement in
German. The youth was proud of his
penmanship and took especial pains
with the statement. 1T looked like
copper-plate script when he had com
pleted it.
VOTERS leave-taldng of his parents
was an affectionate one. Clinging tc
the heart of his mother, with tear;
streaming down his cheeks. he repeat
ed time after time he was innocent,
Wolter asked the death watch wha'
time It was when he finished hi:
statement at 2 a. m. and afflxed 1t t
the paper. Then he gave the paper Il
Warden John S. Kennedy to be givei
to the newspapers.
1t was Just 5:35 when Wolter, dressed
in a coat and trousers and a thin whit
shirt. was led from his cell by Heat
Keeper Connaughton. The right leg o
the trousers was split to admit the APP
plication of an electrode to the bar,
flesh. In spite of the early hour al
the prisoners in "murderers' row
We're awake.
bids Condemned Men "Good-By."
"Good-by, boys" called Wolter.
"Good-by, Wolter,' replied the con
demned prisoners.
Wolter did not look up as he wa
placed in the chair at ~thirty-six an
one-half minutes past 5. He SCENE
dazed as the attendants with precisio
and swiftness buckled on the cap an
straps.
1t required only three minutes t
snap the thread of human life. A
soon as the current was turned off tn
physician made an examination of Wol
ter's heart. They Immediately de
clared him l~ifeless.
VOTERS parents left the prison jus
before the execution.
Ruth Wheeler. is years old. who ha
just been graduated from the Mel
chants and I'ankers' Business Scho'