The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-12-13
THREATEN LIFE or MOLINARO
Track Foreman Of Wisconsin Gas and
Electric Threatened With Death IF
Employment is Refused - Pulero
Confesses to Chief O'Hare.

Tito Pulero seventeen years old, and
Louis Snyder, $40 Bond street, twenty
one years old, are being held at the
Kenosha county Jail on a government
charge of illegal use of the mails be-
cause of threatening letter written
by Puleno to Mike Molinero, Of the
Wisconsin Gas and Electric Company,
in which the latter was threatened
with death unless he used his influence
TO give Pulero "his job back" Mo
linero turned the letter over to Chief
of Police O'Hare and the arrests were
made Monday and shortly afterwards
Pulero made a confession Of the whole
affair to Chief O Hare. A federal in
spector was in Kenosha on Tuesday to
investigate the case and the young men
will be taken to Milwaukee for trial.
eff you don't give me my job back
it viii go pretty hard with you, Mista
Molinaro--death for you if you don It
give me the job' is the threat CON
tanned in the letter which caused the
men s arrest. In his confession Pulero
said that he wrote the letter on the
morning of November Goth, 1917, in a
west side saloon and that he mailed it
at the mail box at the corner Of Eliza
beth and Bond streets. He asserted
that the letter was dictated by Snyder.
1t is written in a scrawling hand and
the threat is added as if it were an
after-thought. There is no signature
to the letter but Molinaro was able
Immediately to recognize it as the
work of Pulero.
The cause of the trouble between
Molinaro and Pulero dates back more
than two years ago, when Pulero was
working for the Wisconsin Gas and
Electric Company as fagman under
Molinaro as track foreman. Pulero
had stated his age as eighteen but
when the rate inspector visited Keno
sha he discovered that he was only
sixteen and advised the railway com
pany to employ no one under the age
of twenty-one. Pulero was discharged
and blamed it on Molinaro and has
made frequent appeals to the latter
recently to be given back his employ
ment Three Other young men ,one of
them Snyder and all companions of
Pulero, have also persisted in seeking
employment as hagmen for the local
railway line and it is believed that they
were all implicated in the "black
hand" letter, recently mailed to
Molinero.
Pulero and Snyder both seemed to
be ignorant of the serious nature of
the charges placed against them by the
federal official. "We didn t really
mean to kill him." Pulero said. "We
just wanted to scare him." They ad-
mitted that they had mailed the letter
through the local post Office but de-
clared their ignorance of the fact that
it was breach Of the law. There is
no doubt of the guilt of the young
men but it is possible that because
of their youth, they will be granted
leniency in the federal court or at least
be given the minimum sentence.
The police are looking for the other
two companions of Pulero and Snyder,
and although they do not seem to be
implicated in the wri: ing of this let
ter, the officials of the Wisconsin Gas
and Electric Company, declare that
they have attempted to intimidate
no nero md secure employ1le,.t b. this
means. The two arrests are expected to
put an end to tn work of the ring.