Show & MhMUUi V w " “"l " — THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JULY V 13 ’ 1930 Plenty of money many big parties lots of jewelry and clothes while luck lasts but in the end a futile hunted life such is the fate of all ganglahd’s women as revealed by one girl who vent straight WA5 kind of ilow getting up so he gave me a out of bed So I got up and slipped a drfM on ever my pajamas and slipped a coal or and w got our grips and went down and got in We drove about 00 Stanley ‘a car and drove away milea out of Lei Angeles I guess when we stopped At this camp we took two cabins' at a tourit camp one for Stanley and hn wife and one for me and my huiband- Stanley brought m a brown grip and they larted pulling jewelry out of their pockets pearls and “I Hove 1 "My husband o( ora and gave me a flap i Stanley’ u’i fe (time ever and laid ‘Never mind Ptggy any time the yi bring anything home don't atk inhere It eomei from ml lake It and be find Vou'vt got ltd ” (Sketch by Paul Kroesen) two diamond rings and a diamnnq wriat watch “I said ‘Well where did you get this jewelry?’ I knew that Sheldon had ptomised to pay them ao much and had not paid them ao I thought maybe it wai Sheldon’s Jewelry that they had got as their pay “So 1 said ‘Does this jewelry belong to Sheldon)’ And my husband got sore and said ‘Shut ypur mouth I" and Then I started to cry and Stanley’s wife gave me a slap came over and said ’Oh never mind Peggy pay no attention to him but you had better get smartened up— any time the hoya bring anything home don’t ask where it cornea from just take it and be glad you got it " After thie lesson m the Wayi of gangland Peggy and die rest of the crowd came on back to Chicago They went to Martin’a wife’s home la Benton Harbor Mich to lie low while Martin and Thompson made sure once jnore that they were going to be taken back into the gang Capone apparently still doubted 1 hnmpson’s Iqyalty and Thompson had narrow escape— about the narrowest H we celled escape a gangster cap have in to the pome of Tony Lombardo who was then ona of Capone’s lieutenants and who has met gena the way of moat gangsters with a bullet in ha bremj and he sat in Lombardo’s living room while two gunmen sat opposite him with their hands on their revolveis ready But to kill bun if Lombardo gave the word Lombardo after talking with Thompson evidently decided that the young man wes worth using tome more) so instead of shooting him he gave bun an sagnmeht— told him and Martin to go up ta Benton Harbor to kill a man -- 1 As Told lo BRUCE CATTON er By PAT ROCHE 4 P A 'V I m: hmmmt ttdhaa ak wa ’ to’ taking oltai Burke ghat Hamilton and she is only 27 you either come across’— rl think 0000-- ‘or I am going to squawk’ He said ‘You can’t feel very sale with that McSwiggin murder on your hands’ And he said in that letter to A! ’Send the money under the name of Bernice Manning to New Orleans’ “So he drove me as far as Little Rock Ark and from there he had me take ilia train ta New Orleans and there I wa ta get the money that A1 sent but instead of sending the money Al just lent a wire to my husband and told him to come back to the gang that everything was all right and that he should not talk like that "Well my husband was too amart H said They will talk that way until I get there and then they will bump he laid ’now lie asked for Al Capone From that she mailed to under the threat of each demanding one $10000 £ apone One letter Peggy said went like this: squawking “I am not the type that will go out and work with a I have murdered hundieds and hundreds pick and shovel g of people for you and now you duty louse you had belter come across with that ten grand or You know I I am going right to the police and squawk But he still kept trying nly after city he dictated to shake down to Peggy letters double-crossin- and am not going to work with a pick and shovel (o make my so if I got caught stealing or anything I will squawk my brains out" bread aid butter Capone remained adamant these long distance threats and o Peggy got a answering them stand and supported the two of them husband said he could not got a job even looked for one" By this time learning that a gangster’ woman can UT time of quite unworried by he finally stopped job al a hotel newsShe remarked “My’ but I doubt if he I imagine she wa have a pretty hard it Then they kept on wandering finally landing in WinniThere they quarreled Peggy evidently got tired peg of being the wag earner Peggy threatened o do a little quawking to the pohe So he "He said ‘Will you)’ on her own account reached for his pistol hut the pistol was unloaded and j opened the door and ran and locked W M f Five became knou)n as ” the jinx girl of gangland” of her sweethearts have died by gangdm’t gum I t-d- rg TV I J c 1 f 4 11 mm PCCGY 3 4 than a month I kept Peggy The gang knew she had police protection squawked ana she knew they knew it end all hands Were agreed that Iter life wouldn't be worth a dim if they ever found her So I kept her in hiding for more than a Bvonth finally though she wanted to leave —said she would he able to get away safely — and so she took her departure I haven't seen or heard of her since Not long ago when a woman’s charred body was found fev the ruins of a burned houe on the outskirts of Chicago I thought — "well perhaps that’ Peggy" i went out and But wherever she is I don I inves'igated but it wasn’t tfurk she's very easy in her mind Peggy was a country girl— came down to Chicago liom with a man we call ipme place in Wisconsin She fell in Al Thompson who was one of Capone’s ace gunmen ee® lime in fact Thompson had the job of sleeping in the anteroom of Capone's private suite at the Lexington Hotel Pejsry fell for him and the two weie living together T hompson was associated with Ralph Sheldon and Stan Py Martin Sheldon had at one time formed a plot with politician named Newmark to get Capone out of the way Capone had heard of it and Sheldon Martin and Thomp-iogot eiders to kill Newmaik They obeyed Thompson doing the shooting but after it was over they noticed that pone's manner was pretty chilly and one day Sheldon called in Martin and Thompson and said: It looks like Capone is “Boys it looks tough for us to put us on tire spot so the best tiling we can do it beat it I have lots of money so you boys com with me" The three promptly lit out for live wet by automobile ftd I'll rnnLcue this story as Peggy told it to “Stanley Martin’s wife cam t the house where I was K-- her husband in downtown we’ll continue the story In her own words i ’W drove down Michigan avenue and got almost downtown when ne said ‘Honey there ia something I have to tell you’ So he pulled the ear over to the curb and started telling me “He said ‘Today everything was set for me they were going to get me today but aome way they changed their minds and didn’t give the signal and I am supposed to go out with Stanley Martin and shoot a guy m Michigan" And he said ‘What do you aay shall wa risk it and go out there or not?’ “Well this was the first time my husband tver told me about his work or what he done up to this time I didn’t know what his work was with tha exception he hold me he was a bootlegger and rum runner I didn’t know anything about any killings until he told me i more 0bA Uli"' ba PRACTICALLY P C Illinois writtea nothing has ef Chicago’ gangster mysterious crew string They're recruited from all cUwet and all mmm wf Id life Some of them are tit legal tvra of th gangetori they eonaort with acme f wtvei el other people and aome tlom art th of them wouldn't know a marriage certificate if they aaw it Some of them are cabaret girls entertainer! darjc aome of them were treet Kills betyi their gang-atet- s er took them in tow aome of them coe from good families and have a lot more bramt and general background than you'd expect of a gangster 'a aweetie and aome of them are little dumbbells fresh from the Country who nevrr quite figure ofrt what it s all about They usually live pretty high while it lasts The gangster has money and ne likes to spend it The Women get line clothes jewelry qpd nice apartment gaith plenty of spending money But— well I imagine that if you could get aev life isn’t qua nted with them you’d find that their ia there I think don't and roses all moonlight particular reason for envying them F or instance there is— or maybe by now ba “there was” — a girl whom well call Peegy though that isn’t her real name T’eggv came to me and told me her whole ttorv She and her husband had split up and he was looking for her with gun So Peggy figured that the best tiling she could Co was get him safely behind the bars and i the came tme to tell everything ahe knew bout him She knew plenty and wa ra ' engaged now in verifying her story and look- kg for corroborative evidence rR - f Chief IneSfa!dr for Stste'i Allornry Cook Count sf a Margaret Collin “ ?rt: show Dale Winter Colasimo rl Wife of lim Colosimo showered her with luxuries until the day he ues shot to death myself in the bathroom in the hallThen he packed his grip way and left” Peggy thereupon drifted to Detroit and got a job as a waitress “I worked there under the nama of Anna Wilson" she explained “because H had to work under different names all the places I went The? have connections with the Detroit gang there — almost all the Chicago gangs have — the gangster in Chicapo know me you understand and after I wrote all those letters to Capone in my own handwriting he knew it was me that wrote them" Oneday while working w Detroit Peggy rt a letter from her sister in Chicago telling her that T hompson was looking for her breathing out protestations of his love for her and begging her sister to get Peggy to return to him "Well" said Peggy "I knew he did not want me back only for one reason and that would be to So I wrote him a get rid of me letter and I told him in that I said ‘I am too smart for you I know why you want me back’ " me In and I was jut slightly acquainted with her hut we drove to some part of Chicago and got Ralph Sheldon’s wile and from thrre we drove until we got to Kansas City Next day we got to Kansas City and met the tiiree boys got a oh at a news stand Peggy and from there we drove on to Dodge City supported her fading gangster Kan and there I married I hompson husband “From there on we traveled westwaid until we got to Lot Angeles At Los Angeles the bovs were trying to gel connected and we spent about three weeks there then that he was supposed to Stanley Martin’s wife and then ! started back to Chicago kill this man She was in hopes of fixing it u Neither of us wiih Capon so Stanley and Thompson could come bac knew who the Man wa mailing this letter VFTLR to thinking' and sh her Lther l —come back to All gang that is — “So I 14 id ’Certa inly not I don't want evolved a bit of underworld a racketeer and her brother is with Al too you lo do any’ twice uidoWed Mrs ’’Dingbat” Oberta T e cam back and we were in Chicago about nine She deAnd I said own thing like this trategy of he " ”B g Tim Murphy by gangsters' bullets cided to send him a telegram that by you wouldn't do anydajs I don't know what she was doing because I nevei her first was shot dawn in his front yard heard about any fixing or anything ehe but finally she told would you)’ would keep him wailing around her thing like that At his funeral she met his friend Dingbat me ever) thing was set and that Al would take the boys back and while he was Ana he said ‘Don't be silly sister's home He too was Oberta later m lrned him So we got on the turn and went back to Los Angeles ” just say shall wa go or not)’ wailing she would go to Chicago shot down In Los Angeles the two gnla met their husbands at the I said ’Of course we are not and have him arrested So sh I don’t want wired him: "Daddy I love you Mis Marlin said post othce and give them the good news you to have going T that Canone hid prom srd to give them llieir old jobs bark id will come at once" muidrr on your hands' and I ire me some money and go baik to my and hid even oflered to m ike up their hack salary I aih "The next day" she said "I got the bus and came on suter’i and get the rest of our cloihes and we I to Chicogo Mar man hvd been on the payroll at abnit $ I 50 a week town cime ncht in to see Captain Shoemake-- " So having pawned some jewelry they healed writ hv But it chdn I do Tt tin and Thompson were over) lyed any good Thompson evidently They got ready to wented a trap anT the police weie unable to lay hands on start hark for Chicago at nme desire to auto At Tul-- a Thompson was seired with “I said him I proitiled Pecgy for a month Then she went away aavs Peggy " "Vk ell I am certainly not going wrile lo Capone Peggy continues became I am all tired out after riding on the train for five and the Loid on'y knows where sh is now Her life la "He had me write a tePrr to Al and in the teller he ’aid ’Well Al )0U tried to gel me but you didn't’ typical aud it doesn't seem U tu a vaajr asxxMralJ Max days' So my husband said ’Get up and do as I sayl’ letr m- 1 i 'k 1 ?y crrrtht use r irrWwS waal— Prist4 J la O B X) |