The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-02


 money and Davis again said "Okay, Jim."
 Davis was put back on the stand when court convened. But Hines counsel, Lloyd Paul Stryker, said he had no further questions. Yesterday he had forced Davis to confess per- Jury and other crimes, but he had not directly attacked Davis story that he paid the Tammany leader thousands of dollars for protection o1 the Dutch Schultz gangs lottery racket.
 Dewey then called Gerald D,Able- mont, who identified himself as a telephone company test supervisor He told about installation of A tele. phone for Davis.
 William J. Mellin, special agent TOT the treasury department and for mer employe of the New York Tele- phone company, was called next.
 lie testified that he ''tatpped wires and installed dictographsp for the Bronx district attorney and later
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 on JuneN6, 1883, he testified, he tapped Dixie Davis telephone (Dayis then lived at 55 Central Park West1 ana recorded what he heard. Mellin was then a narcotics agent he said,
 Already Admits Plenty
 Defense Attorney Lloyd P. Strvker had forced him to admit habitual perjury, adultery with Hope Dare ms snow girl sweetheart, iudicisl tsmper1ng and election frauds He even had admitted that he watched gang murder and the district a,ttorney ot Troy N. r., was in court ilStening for evidence with which 10 charge him with murder.
 The shifty "kid mouthpiece" was nantering witness. He had o,liclI ana perfect legal retorts for Strvkar lie had to be rebuked sev- eral times by both the defense law yer and Judge Ferdinand Pacora for plurt1ng information, sometimes damaging to Hines, not required bv the questions. When the judge asked him if he nao forgotten his legal training ne sad he was There as a witness not lawyer He admitted that he nad perJured himself before the 1855 grand jury that investigated rackets, at his disbarment proceed lngs, at courts where he represented eangsters and before the tax com mission. Stryker asked him when he had frst perjured himself.
 The year I met Jimmy Hines" he replied. 0
 Too Quick To Reply
 Once District Attorney Thomas F. Dewey jumped up, objecting to a question, but Davis had already snapped an answer. The judge re- marked: "The witness has overrulec your objection" When the judge toid Davis he had warned him "the last time" to desist from extraneous remarks, Davis tried to reply.
 Don't argue with the court. just obey" the judge commanded.
 Stryker found his big opportunity when it developed that Davis. in dicted with Hines, had signed con- fession on May 21 although several weeks later he pleaded not guilty and personally argued a demurrer
 Stryker demanded to know wheth- CT this had not been flake play,n intended to make Hines believe htat he was going to fight the case. in hope that Hines would communicate with him and fall into trap set by Dewey. Davis denied it. He said he had argued the demurrer in a final hope for freedom and that he did not decide until July 29 to turn states evidence.
 No Reference To Murder
 There was no reference yesterday to the murder of Jules Martin, Schultz gangster, at hotel in Co., hoes, N. r., March 2, 1885. Previ- ously Davis had mentioned that he witnessed the murder. He was not permitted to name the killer but Dis trict Attorney c. J. Ranney of Troy said that Davis had already made a statement to him accusing Schultz of shooting Martin in the mouth after an argument over $1,O00 in cafeteria racket money. Ranney said he believed the meeting between Martin and Schultz had been ar- ranged in Davis office and if he could find any evidence he would have Davis tried on . murder charge. Davis onlx excuse for his part