Evening star., 1938-09-01
Hines
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former pleading guilty to the indct-
ment naming Hines. started talking
yesterday in his thin. piping voice.
every ear in Supreme Court was at
tentive
The once-dapper racket lieutenant
recounted events which-if true-have
affected not only Hines chances for
liberty but. in the past, also have in
fluenced the political fates of the
judge and prosecutor of the trial.
Leaning toward the witness, Justice
Ferdinand Pecora heard him say that
$4,000 to $4,000 was contributed
from racket funds to the campaign of
William Copeland Dodge. who defeated
Justice Pecora and another candidate
for district attorney in 1888.
Not only that, Davis added. but
100-odd gangster "floaters" were re-
cruited by the Schultz mob, and they
voted hundreds Of times for Dodge
in Hines llth assembly district.
Leading Davis through his cleo
trifying recital. District Attorney
Thomas E. Dewey prompted him to tell
how Hines in 1885 attempted, said
Davis, to forestall the appointment of
Mr.. Dewey as special rackets
prosecutor
The actions of the angry, runaway
grand jury of March, 1885, constituted
the first chapter, as Davis told 1t, in
the plot of the current political
melodrama.
Il told Mr.. Hines at that time"
said Davis, that had been ques
toned in the grand jury room about
the various bankers in the (policy
racket combination, that I had also
been questioned about him, that
had also been asked many questions
about myself, and told him it seemed
to me that this thing would reach
serious proportions unless something
was done about it, unless it was STOP
ped somehow"
Says Hines Went to Dodge.
Then. said Davis. Hines went to
see Dodge. Il told Dodge" Davis
quoted the district leader as saying,
that he was in this investigation of
his hurting a lot of friends of his,
and that he was particularly hurting
you Davis, who was very much re-
sponsible for getting contributions for
his campaign"
Next time he appeared before the
grand jury, Davis said, he was excused
from further exan1in atiop
When he saw Hines, Davis said, the
leader remarked, Thank God this
thing is over"
But it wasn't over In June, 1885,
there was talk of the grand jurys
proposal for a special prosecutor. Mr..
Deweys appointment followed despite
Hines efforts. Davis said.
Murder Solution Seen.
A solution of the 3-year-old mystery
of the gun-and-knife Staying of Julie
Martin, the restaurant racketeer, ap-
peared likely as the result of Davis
testimony.
The disbarred ex-gang lawyer cas-
ually said that he saw Martin shot in
the Harmony Hotel at Cohoes, N. Y, in
1885. At Troy. N. Y, District Attorney
Charles J. Ranney Of Rensselaer, Coun-
ty. said he obtained a statement from
Davis two weeks ago accusing Dutch
Schultz.
Underworld gossip at the time Mar
tins hacked body was found in sack
in snow bank near Troy March 3,
1895, was that, Julie had made the mis-
take of holding out $2l,0 900 on the
Dutchman.
In his statement Mr.. Ranney said
Davis said Schultz "shot Martin
through the mouth in drunken argu-
ment." Davis admitted yesterday that
he lied when he told the Rensselaer,
grand jury he knew nothing of the
killing.
Mr.. Ranney was attending the trial
to get data on the crime, since he is
unable to use the information he said
Davis gave him because it is what Is
legally known as privileged state
ment, which means that nothing in
it may be used against Davis in any
subsequent criminal prosecution.
Weeping by professional mourners
In funeral professions has been