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Show York. Natch 27.;Albert Wol-tarjtho Wol-tarjtho youth In the fire place of, whose rcoms',,wero'kfO'rad yesterday portion of Uw lHirned -hodv of Ruth Wheeler, the young stenographer who had been inistdng since last Thursday morning was roru milled to the tombs without ball Ma charged with the girl's murder. 1 At a continuation of tbo police quli to which he was subjected last night, he persisted In his denials that he had ever seen lie Kir, al vr written writ-ten to her orinew how her body came on the lire escape outside his window, or why fragments of human feet, bands and arms 'were found In the ashes of his tire place. - Katie- Miller, xr Kathleen Moelllr, the glr with whom, he lived, was arrested ar-rested today as she approached the house where the murder was committed. commit-ted. She was reading the detail. In a German newspaper as she walked, smiling as he. read. During a-loog cross-examination she held sturdily', to a consistent story that she knew nothing of the crime until she read of it In the newspaper. On Thursday night 6he returned from work at tho laundry where she earned six dollars a week and gave It all to Wolter sue said she noticed tho stove In front of the fire-place had been moved, the flreboard newly paint ed and a colored lithograph pasted over the hole-where the stovo pipe formerly entered. When she asked Wolter why he had done this, he answered an-swered that summer -was coming and they would not need the stove. She had not eveu known that Wolter Wol-ter had received a visitor she says, until Pearl Wheeler, the (lend girl's elder sister had called on Friday morning to'ak if Ruth had been Ihere. Welter had denied It, but the Miller girl 6ays she waR uneasy after the Interview and that she became jealous and accused him of harboring another woman In the flat. Again he denied It. Friday morning she wont to work agalo and that afternoon Wolter Wol-ter was arrested. The girl was committed com-mitted to the house of detention as a material witness. An autopsy today r.howcd that Ruth Wheeler had been killed In the manner man-ner Indicated by the first examination. First, she had been strangled with a ropo and then the bones of the arms and legs were ; broken to admit the body more readily to the narrow throat of the chimney. Why the cuts were made on the body docs not appear. ap-pear. When she was 6hown the nightshirt night-shirt In which part of the charred body had been wrapped, the girl positively posi-tively identified the garment as Wol-ter's. Wol-ter's. "That letter W." says the girl, Indicating Indi-cating an initial worked on tho shirt, "wa6 embroidered by Albert's moth er." She also Identified the gunnysack in which the head and trunk of .the victim had been placed m having been used by her and Wolter to hold kindling wood,' |