MURDERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 1 April 1910, Page 5

MURDERS.

THE NEW YORK HORROR.

WOLTER INDICTED

[Press Association—Copyright.]

NEW YOEK, Thurs,

The Grand Jury have indicted Wolter for murder in the first degree for the murder of Ruth Wheeler, a stenographer, aged 16. The trial will commence on Monday.

THE DEFENCE,

AN ALIBI CLAIMED

FURTHER EVIDENCE

(Received April 1, 1.30 p.m.] NEW YORK, Thurs

Wolter's counsel is endeavouring to establish an alibi. He declares that Wolter was merely the tool of a gang of traffickers in young girls, and protests against the use of statements extorted under the "third degree" examination by the police. A shopkeeper has testified that Wolter purchased a gallon of kerosene on the day of the murder, and afterwards bought a pot of paint and a brush to hide its traces.

THE SYDNEY INFANTICIDE

THE PRISONERS EVIDENCE,

SYDNEY, Thursday,

At the. hearing of the infanticide case to-day Brady, charged with murdering an infant by means of laudanum and strangulation, denied that he killed the child. The woman Mitchell, with whom he lived, said she had sent it to Queensland. He suggested that the. woman' had charged him with the murder because he had left her.

THE TARNOWKSA TRIAL,

ROME, Thursday.

Expert evidence at Venice in the Tarnowska case tended to show that Kamarnvski's life might possibly have been saved had a certatia operation not been performed.