Norwich bulletin., 1912-01-29
Does Not Fear
Electric Chair
BUT WoLTERS is SORRY FOR
POOR OLD MOTHER"
COLLAPSED IN HIS ARMS
Mother Deeply Affected at Parting
With Her Boy Who is Doomed to Die
Tsday-His Crime Shocked Country.

Ossining, n. Y. Jan. 2S.-A5bert W.
Voter, the degenerate youth whd
murdered and burned Ruth Wheeler
IN New York nearly two years ago,
stoiidly awaited tonight the expiation
Of his orime by death before daylight
tomorrow in Sing Sing prison.
Called fer Cigar.
After a visit by his parents, who
wept over him more than an hour. and
spiritual consolation by a Lutheran
minister, during which he was prac-
tically emotiOnless, WOlter persuaded
the guards to ask Warden Kennedy for
a cigar. The warden sent back one
Of his best perfect0s to the doomed
youth, and he puffed on it so slowly
that it lasted him an hour. He was
then locked alone in his cell to await
the call to the electric chair.
Mother Collapses in His Arms.
The young mans parents came up
from New York during tho afternoon
and their visit was more affecting
than even the hardened prison keep
ers are accustomed to. The mother
| collapsed in her sons arms when she
met him in the death house corridor
and cried bitterly. After they had left
Wolter said to the guards: Poor old
mother, how sorry I feel for her and
dad, too. I don't mind going to the
electric chair, but 1t is terrible on
them. will be glad when it's all
over"
ReeOnciled to His Fate.
Eev. r. f. Buermeyer, who remain
! ed with the prisoner in the early eve
ming, said WOIter seemed reconciled
to his fate.
Only Fifteen Witnesses.
Ehe prison officials have been be-
sieged by medical men and curious
! persons for opportunity to witness
| Wolter's death, but the witnesses viii
be restricted to the legal number OF
fifteen. Sheriff Julius Harberger Of
New York county, who advocates the
abolition of capital punishment, anC
mas doubts of the efficacy of electricity
| in putting men to death, will be ont
of these witnesses
WOlter to Give Out Statement.
Late tonight Wolter sent word tt
Warden Kennedy that a statement
! would be placed in that officials hand!
when the murderer left his cell to gt
| to the death chair. Warden Kennedy
said he had no idea as to what the
statement would be.
Claimed Another Man Did 1t.
Wolter insisted at his trial that an,
other man who reomed with him com
mitted the murder The police wer,
never able to trace any such person a!
Wolter tried to describe and his de
scription of the man was so broker
by cross examination that it was re
garded as mythical.
VOTERS Crime Shocked Country.
The crime for which Wolter will di
shocked the entire country when tn
charred and dismembered body o
Ruth Wheeler was found on a fire es
cape outside of VOTERS East Sid
apartment. The girl, who was tryin;
10 help support d widowed mother
went to VOTERS rooms in answer t,
his advertisement, 'SStenographer
Wanted She was terribly mis- .reat
ed and strangled to death,
Execution First Set for June, 1910,
The date eff the murder was Marci
*, 1910. A speedy trial resulted ii
VOTERS conviction of murder in tn
first degree and his being sentenced t
die on June 4. 1910. An appeal whicl
was never prosecuted and other de
lays halted the execution nearly tw
years.