Word: capshaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Jimmy Hines. At 27. said Dixie, he had five lawyers working for him and paid $7,500 a year in office rent. He described paying off Hines, in $500 and $1,000 chunks, himself and through intermediaries, told how Hines asked Tammany Magistrates Francis Erwin and Hulon Capshaw to dismiss policy cases...
...also ordered Mr. Dewey, on the motion of Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker, to back up his indictment with names of all the political figures whom the State charged Hines with "influencing" on behalf of the numbers racket. Obediently Tom Dewey last week produced three names: Tammany Magistrate Hulon Capshaw, the late Tammany-appointed...
Exclaimed Defense Attorney Stryker: "What? Just those three?" Predecessor Dodge, a sandy-haired, bespectacled Democratic wheelhorse whose official inaction was the direct cause of Tom Dewey's appointment as rackets investigator, issued a prompt, pompous denial of the charges. Equally prompt was Hulon Capshaw, an amiable, Tennessee-born Social Registerite who was a Hines heeler while still at Columbia Law School 25 years ago. Magistrate Capshaw was conveniently prepared with a statistical breakdown of his disposition of cases involving the numbers racket...