A NEW YORK MURDER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 831, 26 April 1910, Page 3

A NEW YORK MURDER.

New York, April 23

At the trial of Albert Wolter, charged with the murder of Rose Wheeler, the accused swore that he had never seen Wheeler. Her name had been given him by a friend in connection with a school of shorthand.

The jury found Wolter guilty of murder of the first degree. Prisoner went sound asleep during the jury’s two hours’ deliberation, and was unmoved when sentence was passed. He will be electrocuted on April 27. Welter's arrest, trial, and sentence, in point of time, is a record for New York.

The partly-burnt mutilated body of Ruth Wheeler, a girl of sixteen years, was found upon the fireescape adjoining the rooms occupied by Albert Wolter, a New York stenographer. The murder was discovered through a neighbour named Taggert noticing what he supposed to be a bundle of old clothes on the fireescape. Taggert shoved the bundle from the ledge with a broom, jestingly crying: “Suppose it’s murder.” The bundle fell into the courtyard, four stories below. Taggert then opened the parcel and found the body of the girl. She had been strangled. The police had previously thoroughly searched Welter’s rooms without finding anything. Prior to the discovery of the body, Wolter had been arrested for the abduction ot the girl, and had been admitted to bail.