A GIRL'S DEATH.
SENSATIONAL NEW YORK TRAGEDY BODY POUND IN A FIRE-ESCAPE. A SINISTER COINCIDENCE.' By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright. London, March' 27. Router's correspondent reports that tho partly-burnt mutilated body of a girl named Ruth Wheeler, aged 16,' was found' upon the fire-escape adjoining the rooms occupied by Albert Polter, a Now a York stenographer.. ■ ■'•' ■ It was known that the girl had applied to Polter for a situation. Polter, prior to the discovery of the body, had been arrested for tie adduction of the girl, and had been admitted to hail. , . (Rec. March 29, 0.55 a.m.) New York, March 28. Polter is a youth of 18. , He denied seeing Ruth Wheeler. . Some other belongings were afterwards found in a chimney above a grate which the police saw him painting when they first visited the flat. Polter disappeared, but was arrested later. The London "Daily Mail's" New York correspondent states that it is alleged that numbers of girls visited tho flat. It is a sinister coincidence that fifteen 1 girte seeking clerkships have disappeared, during the last few weeks. . .... ,
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 777, 29 March 1910, Page 7
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177A GIRL'S DEATH. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 777, 29 March 1910, Page 7
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