WOLTER OLTER IS i AI SING SING T Murderer of Ruth Wheeler i Pays Penalty Wi With tb His Life LEAVES EAVES STATE STATEMENT fENT D DECLARING CLARING INNOCENCE Evidence Was Entirely Circumstantial Circumstantial Cir Cir Cir- but Completer Complete r and Conclusive OSSINING N N Y Jan 29 Albert Albert Wolter was Ivan put t to death in the electric chair at hiff Sin Sing prison at t o'clock this morning for the murder of fifteen year old Ruth nearly two iwo years ago Tho The girl sirl came to Welters Welter's flat in Now York in search of employment anti And nc ho IlC killed her IIer after alter sho had been Wolter Volter loft a a statement with Warden Kennedy denying that ho bad had committed the crime crimo Tho Tho execution was without feature Volter Wolter was wag declared dead after ono one contact onta t of 1960 volts The Tho tato dee elec- a F vet l Nt h I ALBERT E. E WOLTER said that Wolter showed less resistance re- re to tho the electric current than any Ill murderer put to death by Ly electricity electricity elec elec- at Sins Sing Sin Sing prison The murderer spent his last m night ht quietly resting restine only part Tart of or the time t t 2 o this morning Welter Wolter w wrote otc his bis denial l of the thc killin killing billing It was on ona ona a single a lc sheet sheet and eo Fo even cven and clear clearw w i tho letters formed that tho the writ writ- ruts jn had the appearance of copperplate The statement reads Welters Welter's Statement Warden II Warden 1 T S. S Kennedy T To 10 o be bo crven to tho public January 2 29 2 a a. a met in U Now Now that I r am departing from this earth to co so into tho the presence of God I wish 1 to make this thin last ti statement pi world refused me justice but our Pother Pother-in who knows our Jur j Ino t t he give o ma mo ma and puro Iwi h to state stale I am inno innocent ei t of xh I crimp crime rin p of or which T watt wait 1 I o ha been a victim of circumstantial evidence I hope there puny may comp a t time when hen the conscience of the will l f cr him hint nod and will 11 compel him hint to come cOlDe to to tho front and lOd acknowledge the crime It It i in my honest t. t prayer cr to God iol that he lie ma may bring brine tho time person guilty of tho crimo t to justice that my amo may be cleared of this stain and and tb that t tho the people may peo seo tho the injustice done dODe mo me and that they killed an tn innocent bo boy To fo those who their kind assistance ha e given cien mo me and have hao trusted in iii mo me I t give my sincerest sin sin- thanks x To lo o thoro tho o s Alo ho have maliciously persecuted per perse se and an and killed me for then them I pray pra Gods God's forgiveness Signed ALBERT WOLTER I Although Wolter was vas convicted on circumstantial evidence tho thorn court of appeals reviewing ns tho the ca case e after a R sc se ries of legal delays declared he was wa fairly tried and justly convicted Story of or Crime Ruth Wheeler met her death March 24 1910 in Welters Welter's apartment on sot the tho fourth floor of a hOIl house 6 on East Sev fifth enty-fifth street Ne New York City it where she sho had harI gone rone to seek ck employment employ meat ment as itS a stenographer Her IIer charred bo body y was w subsequently di discovered dif The evidence indicated that the tho girl Jirl had como come to her Iler death by strangulation and burning after havi having been raw raw- The Tho body had hall been thrust into a fireplace where it was partly burned burnell an and concealed until it bc became convenient to remove it in a hat hag to the fire firc C escape from which it was thrown to tho the ground round belo below admitted that h he wrote th the po postal tal card which lei led Ruth Wheeler to visit his apartment and in a book kept by br MOl mint was as found in her writing an entry of her namo and address A hat hatpin hatpin hatpin pin and a ring which the girl tirl bad had worn on the tho mornin morning of her bel di disappearance disappear disappear- ance anco were found in tho the fireplace c and andin andin andin in a n n. n house to which Wolter had bad moved mo-crl on the thc following day was t as found an umbrella um urn brella wh which ch tho the girl Jirl was said saia to have c had bad with her when she left homo home Wolter claimed ho be had bad never neer seen the Wheeler girl irl lI He ire sought to account account ac ac- ac count for the tho entry of tho the girls girl's r name in his book boole by sa saying n he wrote it there thereat at the tho dictation tion o of Fred Ahner Abner who no school of or was as of starting a shorthand and told him ho bo was going to engage Ruth Wheeler No one could bo ho found to testify to the existence of Ahner Abner Wolter was watt sentenced to bo electrocuted electro cutel Juno 16 1910 but the execution was stayed by an appeal Although Altho tho law allows but six mouths in which to argue and decide an appeal the theca ca case e did not reach the thc court of appeals ap all peals until December 4 4 lull The court affirmed th the judgment tho-judgment m nt of con COIl con conviction i within ten days t