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...defense, most of them assigned by the court to take on the unpopular cases, stood by to press points of law favorable to their clients. Such time-consuming luxuries as character witnesses were barred. The cases were ticked off quickly. It took just 90 minutes to try and convict Suarez...
With relish Mayor LaGuardia recited Waxey Gordon's police record-14 arrests under seven aliases, and six jail terms. In 1933, when it was fashionable to convict racketeers for income-tax evasion, Waxey was given ten years. By 1942 Waxey was back, and in tune with the times; he was jailed for a year for running a black market in sugar. When Manhattan's police tapped Worldwide's phones, they were not surprised to hear the enterprising Waxey telling a friend: "I'm now in a swell thing . . . buying Government surplus business...
...year-old Boss of Manhattan became Convict No. 78,719, was given a job as a gardener in the prison greenhouse. Fellow prisoners treated him with respect. Jimmy Hines, whose grandfather had been a Tammany captain under Boss Tweed, and whose father had been a Tammany captain under Boss Croker, thought of his conviction as political persecution. He began writing a book in which he pictured himself as a victim of injustice...
...spent at sawmill settlements, mostly on the Manchuria-Mongolia border. Some of his closest acquaintances were the Chinese bandits who sold Father Gayn "protective security" - and went after him with a gun if he failed to pay up. Some times Father Gayn's sawmills were run by Russian convicts ("I knocked the hats off some fellows," explained one convict, "and the police found heads inside the hats...
...face seemed older as he rose to hear the verdict. ("Guilty of murder in the second degree") which ended the homosexual's trial for strangling his wife. Lonergan faced a sentence of from 20 years to life. The state had tried for a first-degree (electric chair) conviction. Before the jury reached its decision, cigar-gnashing Lonergan Counsel Edward Broderick explained why he had not put Lonergan on the stand: "I saw the weaknesses in the state's case." Lonergan's conviction was also a legal milestone in the life of Wayne William Lonergan, the convict...