The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-01
Dixie D0Uis May Be
 Tried For His Life
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age of g, and struggled for a living in a tenement house office until he got the idea that there was money defending lottery cases in the magis- trate's courts. He was so success full that eventually he met George Weinberg, operations manager for Schultz, and in 1882, he said, Vein berg took him into the racket.
 Already, he said, Schultz had made his deal with Hines and the racket was thriving. He continued to de- fend Schultz's lottery workers, but the acquittals usually had been ar ranged in advance, through Hines he said.
 The 1883 county election cam paign arrived, Hines told the gang to work for William c. Dodge for district attorney, and when, Davis objected that he didn't think Dodge would do," Hines, he said, replied: Dodge is my candidate and will have to finance his campaign. Do you think you can get some money from uptown, from the numbers gameS?"
 Election Day Described
 Davis described election day at Hines political headquarters as fol- lows: Davis and other Schultz lead- CTS presided, 100 f1oaters protected by Schultz trigger men" crowded the rooms waiting for orders Cards were supplied with hundreds of names under which the fioat ters were to vote, some of them four or five times.
 The trigger men" kept them "out of trouble Hines repeatedly called on Schultz for more money, and two or three times Davis went to the basement to meet Hines and hand him sums of $500 or nor that Schultz had sent.
 Dodge was elected and Davis described how the gang prof1ted from its investment.
 Runaway Grand Jury
 In May 1895, the famous run away grand jury was in session, de- manding evidence of racketeering Maurice Wahl, assistant district at torney, was urging the grand jurors On. They summoned Davis, who had been active enough in defense of lottery prisoners to be identified with the Schultz gang, and ordered him to bring in all his recrods.
 Davis said he went to Hines and told him "Wahl is digging too deep. We've got to get him cut"
 Hines drove with Davis to Dodge home, left Davis waiting outside and went in for an hours conference with Dodge.
 "When he came back he said he had told Dodge the whole story; that the mob had contributed to his campaign and now we were being pushed. He said he told Dodge he wanted the inquiry stopped.
 Wahi Was Withdrawn
 The result, Davis said, was that Wahn was withdrawn from the in- quiry, another of Dodge's assistants took his place and confined the tes- timony before the grand jury to generalities Davis didn't have to re- veal his records.
 The plot failed, however, when the grand jurors revolted, barred the prosecutor from their sessions and took ove the questioning of wit nesses themselves. The grand jury demanded of Gov. Herbert H. Leh- man and was granted Thomas E.. Dewey as special prosecutor, which opened the era of racket-busting.
 Attorney Murray's Warning
 Davis told of a frantic conference among the gangsters when DeWey's name was first mentioned. He said he warned Hines that Dewey will break up the combination and send us all away" Hines was unimpressed, Davis said, so he sought out James D. o. Murray, famous criminal law yer and called a meeting. He, Mur- ray, Weinberg, and Hope Dare, Da- wis show girl sweetheart, drove to Hines home at Long Beach, he said.
 q told Hines had brought Mur- ray along because he knows Dewey better than I do and he will tell you just what Dewey will do-he will destroy us all, prosecute us and prosecute anyone, regardless of how high he is. Murray said Yes, that's so,' and Hines said he would talk to Dodge about it."
 End of Gang Nears
 The end for the gang was at hand. Dewey had taken the field with even greater zest than the gangsters had expected. Schultz was bounded by federal income tax investigators, the only legal trouble, Davis said, that he and Hines were unable to fix for him. The lottery banks had been hard hit by winning numbers; Schultz had taken away the gangs $275 900 reserves to fight the income tax case Then Schultz and three of his henchmen were slain in a Newark, N. J. tavern.
 Although the gang was badly crippled, it was not yet destroyed, Davis took over the remnant, direct ed the racket from his swank