Evening star., 1938-08-02
DEWEY ACCUSES
DODGE ANDJUDCE
IN POLICY RACKET
Dixie Davis Pleads Guilty
on Charge of Lottery
and Conspiracy.
SECOND MAGISTRATE
ALSO NAMED IN COURT
District Attorney Charges Foe
at Polls Was Bribed or
Influenced by Hines.
Ey the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. Aug. 2.-District At
torney Thomas E. Dewey today named
former District Attorney William C.
Dodge, an active city magistrate and
a former city magistrate as having
been involved in bribes or intimida-
tons in connection with the late
Dutch Schultz's multi-million dollar
policy racket. i
In addition to Dodge, whom Mr.,
Dewey defeated at the polls last fall,
Mr.. Dewey named Magistrate Hulon
Capshaw and the late Magistrate
Francis Erwin.
The naming of Dodge came as a
sensation. Dodge, former District
attorney and magistrate. long has been
power in Tammany Hall.
A special detail of police guarded
the crowded courtroom as Richard
Dixie) Davis, former Schultz attor.
ney and co-defendant with James ].
Hines. erstwhile powerful Tammany
leader, appeared to enter his plea,
They are accused of conspiracy in the
policy racket.
Davis Pleads Guilty.
After Mr. Dewey had filed the bill
OF particulars, Davis stepped forward
and said:
Il plead guilty"
The charge was conspiracy and con.
tr1ving a lottery.
Mr.. Dewey announced last week
that Davis had agreed to turn states
evidence and would appear as the
prosecutions star witness.
In naming Dodge and the other
two, Mr.. Dewey asserted they had
either been bribed, intimidated or
influenced" by Hines and other de.
PENDANTS in the policy conspiracy.
The dapper Dixie Davis, surrounded
by four detectives. appeared nervous
as he entered the courtroom. He kept
wiping perspiration from his forehead
and twiddled his thumbs.
Mr.. Dewey had previously stated
that Davis said he was in fear Of his
life.
Language Of Information.
The district attorney couched ths
information requested by Supreme
Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora in the
following language:
In response to item IL: Hulon Cap
shaw. magistrate, New York City;
Francis Erwin. magistrate, New York
City; William Copeland Dodge, district
attorney, New York County. and
others. the names of whom are not
presently known to the district attor-
ney. The names above stated include
only those directly involved in the
present indictment"
The information had been de-
manded by Lloyd Paul Stryker. attor.
ney for Hines. who charges that Mr..
Dewey was using the trial as a STEP
ping stone to the governorship Mr..
Dewey emphatically denied the accusa-
ton.
Harvest of Coins.
The policy racket. headed by
Schultz until he was moved down by
gang bullets in q Newark, N. j., beer
tavern, in October, 1885. operated
chiefly in Harlem, where it reaped q
bulky harvest of dimes, nickels and
even pennies from thousands of per-
sons daily.
Upon Schultzs death, according to
Mr.. Dewey's charges, the lucrative
racket was taken over by Dixie Davis.
who was aided by the political power
of Hines.
Davis has been kept in hiding, under
close guard by detectives, since his
release from Tombs Prison after he
agreed to plead guilty.
Former District Attorney Dodge an
nounced through his secretary that he
had mo comment" to make on Mr..
Dewey's accusation.
Magistrate Erwin was appointed
to the bench in 1881 by Mayor James
j. Walker He died in Medical Arts
Sanitarium four years later at the
age of At. He was born In Erwin, N. ].