THE NEW YO RK TRAGDEY.
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NEW YORK, March 28
Wolter is a youth of 18. He denied seeing Miss Wheeler. Some of her belongings were afterwards found in the chimney above a grate which the police ’saw him painting ivlien they first visited the flat. Wolter disappeared, but 'was arrested later. LONDON, March 28. The “Daily Mail’s’’ New York corTespondent alleged that numbers of girls visited the flat. It is a sinister coincidence that fifteen girls seeking clerkships disappeared within the last few weeks. NEW YORK, March 28. The murder of the girl Wheeler was discovered through Taggert, a neighbor, noticing a bundle of old clothes on a fire escape. He shoved the bundle from the ledge with a broom, jestingly crying, “I suppose it’s a murder.” The parcel fell into the courtyard, four stories below, where Taggert opened it, and .found the body of the girl. She had been strangled, and her arms and legs severed in order to allow the murderer to put it in the fireplace. It had then been saturated with kerosene. The police had previously thoroughly searched the rooms without finding anything. A woman named Katie Muller who lived with Wolter has been arrested as accessory’ to the murder.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2772, 30 March 1910, Page 5
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210THE NEW YORK TRAGDEY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2772, 30 March 1910, Page 5
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