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Show MUST PAY THE PENALTY. Jury Finds New York Youth Guilty of Atrocious Crime. Now York. Albert Wolter, a youth of 19 years, who gloated ovor lowd pictures and was "crazy" about women, wo-men, must dlo in the electric chair for the murder of Ruth Wheeler, a pretty 15-year-old stonographor. After one hour and fifty minutes of deliberation, a Jury In tho court of special sessions on Frldny found hlni guilty of murdor In tho first dogroo, bringing to a close n trial marked by Its swift movement and its tostlmony of horror. Tho boy's counsel said with eloquence elo-quence that Wolter was too tenderhearted tender-hearted to harm a cat, but twelvo men Redded that he had strangled Ruth Wheeler nnd thrust her, whllo yet nllve, In his fireplace, whero, soaked with oil, hor crumpled body writhed and burned. |