The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-17


 maneuvered the election of William c. Dodge as district attorney in 1883, Dewey said.
 "He wanted Dodge, to use his own words" Dewey continued, because Dodge was stupid and respectable and his man, because Dodge would be harmless, Dodge would not go out after the Schultz mob."
 Dodge Influenced | Dewey earlier named Dodge, his predecessor, as one of the judicial officers Hines allegedly influenced, bribed or inthnidated" in supplying protection for the racket.
 The racket could not have operated at all. Dewey said pointing to Hines, without the aid of this man."
 Dewey explained to the jury why J. Richard (Dixie) Davis, lawyer for the gang, and George Weinberg and Harry Schoenhaus, Schultz policy bankers indicted with Davis, had pleaded guilty and turned states evidence. Weinberg and Schoenhaus ap- preached the District Attorney seek ing protection, Wewey said. He Told Them
 We told them that If they plead ed guilty to every charge in this indictment we would recommend them to Justice Ferdinann6 Pecora for such consideration as he deemed appropriate" Dewey said. Dewey admitted Davis was per- mitted to leave Tombs Prison and visit the apartment of his show girl sweetheart Hope Dare, T think three times"
 Davis went flor a change of clothes and meal" Dewey said, adding that Miss Dare's mother was always present"
 Davis, he said, finally came to him after reading newspaper reports of the case against him and said:
 "All right, I give up, I'll not only plead guilty, I'll testify for the state"
 A short recess was taken at the conclusion of Deweys hour and IS minute address Hines came into court early, be- fore his counsel arrived. Asked If he were alone, he grinned and pointed to row of attractively dressed women who had taken seats in the court room.
 "Alone" Hines said. Not on your life"
 The women were Mrs. Hines, Sr., Mrs. James J. Hines, Jr., Mrs. Philip A. Hines, and Mrs. Eugene Hines, the defendants wife and daughters in-law. His three sons also were in the court room.
 Another interested spectator was Mrs. Dewey, wife of the prosecutor. As she came in Mrs. Hines ex- claimed:
 "Oh, there's Mrs. Dewey"
 In outlining the one conspiracy and 12 felony counts in the indict- ment against Hines, Dewey de- scribed the numbers game, or policy racket, as crooked" exploitation of "the poorer people" of New York City.
 They place penny bets, two cents bets, nickleand dime bets," he said. Occasionally they bet quarter, sometimes a dollar" 1000 to 1 Odds
 But the odds he said "are 1000 to against their winning" The pro- secutor spoke rapidly but in con- versational tone and described in detail the extent to which policy players fo in their efforts to pick winning number and collect 540-to- on their bet.
 He described their dream books" and "superstitions." He said ?, 5 and ' were considered lucky and that numbers addicts frequently bet on combinations of those diggits.
 Shortly before holiday one year, he said, the number 257 came up and broke every policy bank in the city"
 He described the Schultz mobs l methods of arriving at winning numbers. It used stock exchange statistics until the stock exchange found out about it and then en- ployed pari-mutuel pay-offs at race | VI dCfAo. AlIdU 10 OilC llCtilOO DUH uoCO l by independent operators who sur vived the collapse of the Schultz empire.
 Names Dead Man
 Dewey named Otto (Abadaba) Berman, killed with Schultz in 1885, as the race track handicapper who juggled pari-mutuels figures by manes of last minutes bets which changed pay-offs and prevented heavily -wagered numbers from coming up.
 Dewey said the game was operated very simply during 1920, but became more complicated when the Schultz monopoly emerged in the 1930's. It became necessary to employ
 
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