Evening star., 1938-09-06
DAVIS COACHING
! OF SISTER H|NTED
Saw Brother Two Weeks
Ago, She Admits at
Hines Trial.
BACKGROUND

y. HHco 10 OH UAI III NeU Ok on
charges OF lottery protection.
"Dtrie" DaUis. former Schultz racket
la,oyer. has testified he personally
paid Hines 10000. District Attor-
ney Thomas De,Dey seeks CONNECTION
OF Hines in his driDe on "higher-
ups" after making impressive rec
ord as racket buster.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Sept. 6.-James j.
Hines counsel brought out today in
his conspiracy trial that Mrs. Rose
Wendrof1, q star State witness, had
talked only two weeks ago with her
rackets-lawyer brother, j. Richard
(Dixiel Davis, who has turned States
evidence against the Tammany district
leader.
BY this disclosure, made BY Mrs.
Wendroff, under the cross-examination
OF Hines chief lawyer, Lloyd Paul
Stryker, the defense sought to sug-
gest that Davis might have coached
his sister to substantiate his earlier
testimony against the accused poll.
tician.
Davis in his old lush days acted as
"mouthpiece" for the Dutch Schultz
policy racket. to which Hines is ac-
cused OF having afforded political pro
lection" and the disbarred LAWYERS
story against Hines has been one of the
most important yet brought out by the
prosecution
Mrs. Wendroff acknowledged that
she had seen Dixie" at her mothers
home. and also previously while he
was in prison. She had talked" with
him. but, she volunteered, mot conf
dentially"
Identifies Check.
In her testimony for the State she
had identified $500 check made out
to cash" which she said she had
taken TO Hines at her brothers direc-
tion-and this check. the prosecution
claims, was part Of the payroll"
Mr.. Stryker had begun his cross
examination OF Mrs. Wendroff with
questions apparently designed to sug-
gest to the jury that her testimony
must be considered in the light Of her
affection for her brother.
But the witness. dressed all in black,
even to her hat. refused the suggestion
that she was DLxie's intimate con-
f1dante" She had merely acted, she
testified, as his stenographer.
Cardinal EuIogi1ed.
Before she took the witness stand,
Mr.. Stryker delivered eulogy of the
late Patrick Cardinal Hayes District
Attorney Thomas E. Dewey likewise
praised the Cardinal, as did Supreme
Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora
Mr. Stryker. continuing to demand
OF Mrs. Wendrof whether she hadn't
acted as kind OF confidential as
sistant" to Davis. asked:
During this time when you were
his affectionate sister and he was your
loving brother . =" you do not mean
to convey, do you. that your topics Of
conversation during business hours
were confined to your respective states
of health?"
NO" said the witness, they were
not"
She conceded that she had known
many of Davis cases were policy cases,
but on the whole professed to have
known little OF the business.
Phrase Used Frequently.
She couldn't recall. she said. that
she had ever heard of the Lenox ave-
nue. address which other witnesses
have described as policy racket head
quarters.
Turning 10 the $500 check which
Mrs. Wendroh had testified she took
to Hines. Mr. Stryker asked her what
time Of day it was when she ran that
errand.
Il do not know" she answered.
EARLY or late?"
4 wouldn't know" she responded
phrase she frequently used. to Mr..
Stryker's manifest evaporation.
She testified she had been to Hines
Office before and that "once or twice"
she had taken cash when she went
down there"
Mr.. Stryker brought out then that
the bank on which the check was
drawn was but two blocks from Mrs
Wendroff's Office and that she could
have got the cash in a matter of
minutes.
She professed to have no recollection
about various details of the trans
action.