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bank operated by Ed and Elmer
Maloney until Jimmy Hines gets back
from Hot Springs, Ark"
Weinberg repeating his testimony
that Hines was paid $500 weekly by
the Schultz mob. said: L myself paid
Jimmy Hines $500 in front of Hines
home" he said.
Says Hines Attended Meeting.
That was week or 10 days after
a meeting of Hines, Dutch Schultz
and Bo Weinberg" he continued. AT
that meeting. it was agreed to pay
Hines $1,000 down and $500 a week"
Weinberg said that thereafter he
saw Hines weekly and paid him $500
each time.
Hines asked me. when We met out
side his house. how things were 60
ing" Weinberg said.
He had previously told me that I
could contact him at his home each
morning at 9 o'clock or in the eve
ming.
Then. along in May, 1892, I saw
Dutch Schultz, and I told him it was
about time the policy bank operators
were shown they could get protection.
That was after the payments had been
made to Jimmy Hines
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him to get the 20. K. from Jim," and
that he saw Hines in June and asked
assurances that it was safe to op-
crate the policy racket.
Hines told me to open it up and
try it," the witness testified. And so
We opened up the Schultz headquar-
ters at 35l Lenox avenue"
Where did the money to pay Hines
come from?" asked District Attorney
Thomas E. Dewey. who is prosecuting
Hines on a charge of conspiracy in
connection with the policy or num-
bers game" racket
From the numbers game" Weinberg
answered.
FVSAAA0NAS Sdu llC lllC Ddys
of" to Hines either outside the po-
litical leaders own home or outside
his Monongahela Democratic Club
Weinberg had been recalled to the
stand by Dewey in an attempt to prove
direct link between Hines and the
Schultz syndicate.
Saws PAYMENTS Were Hirher.
Weinberg said that although the
payments started at $500 weekly, in
the summer of 1882 they went
higher"
He said that he saw Hines him
self at the Schultz mob headquarters
at 35l Lenox avenue when the head
quarters was opened, after Schultz
had decided to advertise" getting
protection" from Hines to the Harlem
policy bankers.
The sharp-faced witness, a brother
of the missing "Bo" Weinberg, who
reputedly lies at the bottom of the
East River in barrel Of cement, told
Of meeting "the Dutchman" in 1928
and becoming involved in the num-
bers game racket.
1t was Weinberg's second appear
ance as States witness. Last week
he testified that he attended meet
ing at which Hines accepted a $1,000
for supplying political pro-
lection to the policy racket.
Shortly before the days session be-
gan, Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand
Pecora announced that all testimony
by Big Joe" Ison. alias "Spasm, re-
lating to his alleged ride" by Schultz
was stricken from the rec
ord.
Ison, a West Indies colored man and
former policy banker" in Harlem,
had testified that in 1881 he was
forced into an automobile by "Bo"
Weinberg and ABE the Killer" Lam
dau and threatened with death unless
he "cut" the Schultz mob in on his
lucrative business.
Under Dewey's examination, wein-
berg said that he was in fear of his
life as result of having turned
States evidence, thereby committing
the cardinal underworld sin of "squeal-
ing"
He said he had been promised pro-
lection by Dewey's detectives against
shooting" and had received assur-
ance that Dewey would make q re-
quest for leniency on his behalf.
Weinberg, who has pleaded guilty
to conspiracy charge. told of meeting
Schultz for the first time 10 years ago
when "the Dutchman" operated
speakeasy in the Bronx.
Schultz told me he wanted to take
over the policy game and organize it
as soon as he could get Vincent Coll
off his back" Weinberg said, refer
ring to the lone-wolf gangster known
as Mad Dog" Coll. Coll was subse-
quently machine gunned to death in
a phone booth.
Weinberg told of forming a four
way policy bank partnership with
Schultz. Moe Levy and Big Harry"
SchOenhatlS which lasted until tho