MURDER OF A GIRL.
■ NEW YORK TRAGEDY. . By. Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyright; Now York, March 28. In connection with the murder of Ruth Wheeler, a girl of sixteen years; whose,, partly-burnt mutilated body was found upon tho fire-escape adjoining the rooms occupied by Albert Polter, a New York stenographer,; it transpires that the murder : was .discovered through Taggert, a neighbour) noticing ivhat he supposed to be a bundle of old clothes on the fire-escape. Taggert; shoved the bundle from the ledge with a broom, jestingly J crying: -'-Suppose it's,; murder." The' bundle fcll into the courtyard, four .stories below.' Taggert then; opened the'.parcel and found tho body of "the girl. She had been strangled. ; The police had previously' thoroughly searched Polter's. roonis. without; finding anything:!, • Katie Muller, who lived with Polter, has been arrested as an accessory.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 778, 30 March 1910, Page 7
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135MURDER OF A GIRL. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 778, 30 March 1910, Page 7
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