The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-08-25
WOMAN TELLS OF A
UNION MURDER SCALE
Five Hundred for Dead Man;
Other Crimes in
Proportion.

CHICAGO, August s.-Walter Pin
derski, alleged labor slugger and ex-
convict, is held by the police for a !
brutal attack upon Mrs. Anna Wenzel,
his former wife, who divorced him two
years ago Mrs, Wenzel is lying at
her home, SO Wrightwood Avenue. Her
nose is broken in two places. Her ribs
are fractured Her body is black with
bruises and physicians fear that her
heart may give way under the terrific
beating and kicking she was given.
In spite of her suffering, however,
! she summoned reporter for the Trib
une and reatgd story of labor slug
| gers and labor smuggling which should
/ be material for grand jury action. She
says she WAS beaten because she knew
so much and that she wants it made
public now, 50 that there will be no
reason for beating her again.
In the running narrative of her un-
! willing connection with the conspiracy
Mrs. Wenzel made the following specific
| charges:
That smggers get regular salary
I of thirty dollars a week as a retaining
-
bonuses up to 5000. That murder has
been systemgtized and commercialized
with a fixed ehead money rate of
$500 victim.
That two detectives from the Central
sta tion each receive 800 a month for
aiding sluggers when they get into hot
, water
That Pinderski accompanied Altman
J when the latter shot LYLE Macarthur,
and that policemen called at her home
to return hat dropped by the former.
That each of the sluggers is given a
! union card certifying he is a member
Of labor organizations and that the
cards are part of an elaborate alibi sys-
| tenn.
That she was offered $1,000 to leave
| the city without disclosing these and
other secrets.
} Mrs Wenzel said that most Of her
} knowledge of the conspiracy had come
from overhearing the plot of the slug
i rars while she lived with Pinderski
They had their schedule of prices made
} out in union style, and they used to
laugh an Joke over their system.
2 81 will never forget the terrible
things I saw in that house. I have
= watched Altman and Pindersld make
the bombs that were to destroy prop
erty. They world sit for hours beside
burning candle, timing it for theil
!, internal machines.
u Then they would cut candles to cor
r respond in length to the one tina
burned long enough. In this way the,
n would time their escapes so as to hav'
d an aliDi I have seen them cut on
candle into fo1r quarters SO as to saw
D money.
They would stand their candles n
D in kerosene or gasoline, even in pow
der. They would then light the candle
L and run away When the candle burn
L ed down to the oil or powder the fir
L or explosion would take place.
Pinderski, Chambers, and a ma
" named Kennefck did the Otis Elevate
ID job on May 10. heard them plaI
- ming their attack, followed them an
y watched the smuggling.
n Shortly after Lyle Macarthur, organ
= izer for the International Brotherhoo
n of Teamsters, was shot, February
two detectives from this Central static
n called at my home They had brougf
Pinderski's hat That hat the police
d men gave me knew as Walters for
had bOlght myself. The gang hf
d an alibi system that works to perfe
tion and it is seldom that the pollC
i can get the "goods on them. - Fac
Singer is given working card in IL
u various unions.