The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-25

(Continued from Page Il most likely prospect for his partys presidential nomination in l940 His youth, vigor and courage in dealing with racketeer.ng and his almost successful campaign for the New York governorship last fall already have elevated him to the highest Republican circles.
 Friendship Admitted
 Hines lawyers have admitted his friendship with the slain Schultz and some of his bodyguards. But they said that Hines like Abraham Lincoln, turned no man away, re- gardless of his station.
 Dewey spent all day yesterday in his final argument. He confined himself mostly 10 a survey of the evidence; what each of the 27 states witnesses had proved. He told the jury that mercy, if 1t were coming to Hines, was the business Of the judge in passing sentence, that its duty was to convict. He beaded with the jurors to ''re- move the community's cancer"
 we are helpless. gentlement, un- less that Is visited. I know you will do your duty. know that you will not say go back, prosecute the players and the collectors, (of the lotteries) prosecute the burglar who gets caught, prosecute the boy who steals from the stand on the cor ner. but don't get the man who sent him to steal; prosecute the cheap and the petty, and perpetuate and turn loose those who made 1t possible l thank you for your long attention. l know you will do your dtty as citizens of New York"
 Popularity Not Waning
 Hines listened impassively to these demands on his own career and freedom. The followers of his district have demonstrated frequent ly since his indictment May %, 1888, that his popularity with them has never waned, While Dewey was being defeated for governor, Hines was being reelected last fall as electoral convention delegate.
 Although he was tried alone. Hines was indicted jointly with all the known murderers and hood lufns, living and dead, of the Schultz gang, which allegedly paid Hines $500 to $i 900 a week for protection and used it to terrorize and con- quer all the citys independent lot teries, organizing them into $20,- 900 900 year racket. The co-defen. dants included Schultz, Lulu Rosen- krantz, Abraham (The MisfiD Lan- dau Otto (Abadaba, The Clown) Berman. all extinct, and J. Richard (Dixie) Davis, George Weinberg and Harry Schoenhaus, gang lieuten- ants who survived to turn states evidence. Weinberg recently com mitted suicide.
 Once Was Blacksmith
 Hines Is 62. He Is outstanding among the crawling, pre-prohibition generation of ward politicians who have survived the new day. Once he was a blacksmith. He boasts that he has shod 10000 horses. He won r!s district leadership in 1912 from James Ahern. Q plasterer. in rough and tumble campaign. The next year he served in the Board of Aldermen, the only public job he ever held. With the decline of horse traffic he went into the truck business, dropped 1t to go overseas with a motor transport division during the World War: returned to capture the district leadership again in e clash with Boss Charles F. Murphy, who had taken 1t over while he was gone.
 Most famous of all Hines enter- prises were his June walks" in Gen. tral Park, at which thousands of children were treated to free music and ice cream after q gay street parade. His business interests have included horse racing operations and insurance.
 The evidence against him was supplied mostly by the surviving gangsters who specified times and dates on which Schultz allegealy paid him. Various parts of 1t were substantiated by admitted lottery operators, policemen who said they had been penalized for interfering with the gangsters, persons who had seen Hines and Schultz together.
 Avert Acts Charged
 Twelve counts in the indictment charge specific overt acts, relating to the demoting and transfer oI policemen and the dismissal of gansters from two magistrates courts after they had been caught red- handed in lottery banks. Dewey summoned the case as follows:
 "fdere Is the very thing which makes organize crime possible without 1t there couldn't me organ. lxed crime for five minutes in this country unless the paralysing hand 6f q crooked politician weren't available to break an honest cop ois tell . magistrate what to do. or io use gapGster funds to elect a public prosecutor who is under his <sss7 fr0i." 4NNN