FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER
ALBERT WOLTER TO DIE .) UNMOVED ON HEARING OF HIS FATE. ASLEEP IX COURT. By Telegraph—l Teas Association- Copyrient. (Received April 24, 5 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 23. Tho trial of the youth Albert Wolter, charged with tho murder of a sixteen-year-old girl named Ruth Wheeler, who applied to him for employment, has concluded. In the witness-box Wolter sworo 'that lie had never seen Wheeler, whose name was given to him by a friend in connection with, a school of shorthand.
The jury found AVolter guilty of murder in the first degree.
Th© prisoner wont sound asleep during the jury's two hours' deliberation, and was unmoved when sentence was passed. He will be electrocuted on April 27th. Welter's arrest, trial, and sentence is a record for New York in point of time.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7111, 25 April 1910, Page 7
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