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HORRIBLE MURDER.

LONDON, March 2/. 'Reuter's correspondent reports that the partly burnt mutilated body of a girl named Ruth Wheeler, aged 16, was found upon the fire escape adjoining the rooms occupied by Albert Polter, a New Xork stenographer. It was known that the girl had applied to Polter for a situation. Polter. prior to the discovery of the body, hai been arrested tor the abduction of the girl, and had been admitted on bail.

FURTHER DETAILS.

Received March 29, 12.55 a.m. NEW YORK, March 28. Wolter is a youth of 18. He denied • seeing the girl Wheeler, but some of ther be'ongings were afterwards founcj in a chimney about the grate, which the police saw him painting, when they first visiited the flat. Wolter «disappeared? but was arrested later. The "London Daily Mail's". New York correspondent states that it is • alleged that numbers of girls visited the flat, and it is a sinister coincidence that fifteen girls seeking clerkships have disappeared during the last few weeks.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10004, 29 March 1910, Page 5

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HORRIBLE MURDER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10004, 29 March 1910, Page 5

HORRIBLE MURDER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10004, 29 March 1910, Page 5

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