The Daily Worker

WULF INSISTS
HE SAW DICKS
HIT SCHINDLER

Hint at Trial "Suicide"
Might Be Murder

A concerted effort was made at the grand jury hearing, which absolved the I. R. T. from responsibility in the death of Herman Schindler, Bronx tailor, to make Frank Wulf, principal witness against the I. R. T. and the city police, deny that the company detectives had beaten Schindler, as a result of which he was found hanging in his cell in Morrisania jail.

The grand jury proceedings, which smacked much of maneuvering by the I. R. T., resulted in the complete whitewashing of the company and its system of thuggery and the city police force which was implicated.

Wulf told the same story to the Daily Worker reporter after the hearing as he first told immediately after the incident which resulted in the death of Schindler and which he repeated again before the grand jury. He related the facts of the beating, told how one of the company thugs hit Schindler over the head with his fists and how later they beat him in the change booth with the telephone. The grand jury completely absolved the thugs of the beating and officially buried the case.

Startling evidence was given by the prison keeper, Wulf declared. The prison keeper said he cut the belt on which Schindler was hanging in the cell. When he cut the belt, the body fell on the bench directly under it and the question arises whether the bench was far enough removed from the bars from which he was said to have hung himself to have actually led to his death.

Wulf was drilled for one hour and 25 minutes by the grand jury and an effort was made to have him say that he believed Schindler had committed suicide. Wulf, however, stuck to his theory that Schindler had either died as a result of the injuries from the beating, or had hung himself, having lost his mind as a result of the mishandling and threats.