TRAGEDY IN AMERICA
NEW YORK, March 28. Welter is a youth of 18. "He denied seeing Miss Wheeler, but some of her belongings were afterwards found in a. chimney just above a grate. The police visited the flat. Wolter disappeared, but was arrested later. LONDON", March 27. Reuter states that the partly burnt and mutilated body of Ruth Wheeler, aged 16, who applied to. Albert Wolter, of New York, for the situation of a stenographer, was found upon a fire escape adjoining his rooms. Wolter, prior to the discovery, was arrested on a charge of abducting the girl, and admitted on bail. • March 28. The Daily Mail's New York correspondent says it is alleged that numbers of girls Visited the flat. It 'is a sinister coincidence that 'ls girls who..were seeking clerkships have disappeared within the last few weeks.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2924, 30 March 1910, Page 25
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