A NEW YORK SENSATION.
MURDER OF TYPISTS. By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright Received March 28, 9.30 p.m. London, March 27. Reuter states that the partly burnt and mutilated body cf Ruth Wheeler, aged sixteen, who applied to Albert Polter, of New York, for a situation as a stenographer, was found upon the •fire-escape adjoining 'his rooms. Poltar, prior to the discovery, vfas arrested for abduction. He was admitted to bail. Received March 29, 0.55 a.m. New York, March 28. Wolter is a youth of eighteen. He denied seeing Miss Wheeler. Some of her belongings were afterwards found in a chimney above the grate wllish the police saw him painting when they first visited the flat. Wolter disappeared and was arrested later. The London Daily Mail's New Y or k /correspondent alleged that numbers of .girls visited the flat, and that it is a .sinister coincidence that fifteen of the girls seeking clerk shirts disappeared during the last few weeks.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 349, 29 March 1910, Page 5
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159A NEW YORK SENSATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 349, 29 March 1910, Page 5
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