Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week a great courtroom drama reached a sudden denouement. Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey having shown to his own satisfaction that Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines was the political fixer for Harlem's numbers racket, had rested the State's case. The defense had begun to put its witnesses upon the stand. One of them, young Lawyer Lyon Boston, onetime assistant to Tammany's District Attorney William C. Dodge, testified that Tammanyite Dodge had deputed him to investigate Tammanyite Hines's long-rumored connection with the numbers racket, that he had found no evidence against Hines...
...hearty old Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines. on trial as political fixer for New York City's numbers racket (TIME. Sept. 5), had heard a long string of criminals readily admitting bribery, thuggery and perjury in building their $20,000,000-a-year gambling racket. Last week Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey called two more witnesses embarrassing to the defense...
Another witness was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, the racket's smooth young mouthpiece, whose career at the bar, a polar opposite to that of 36-year-old Thomas Edmund Dewey, was fully as precocious. Having turned State's evidence in hope of saving his hide, Davis answered most Dewey questions with a bright "That's right." He described his association with the racket's murdered boss, Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, and 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...
...shifted from Numbers to betting on the outcome of New York's trial-of-the-year, of Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines as the political fixer of the Numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29, et ante). Mr. Hines was getting no more breaks than ambitious young Republican Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey could help. Highlight of the trial's third week was a detailed account of Defendant Hines's connections with the racket told by nosey State Witness George Weinberg...
...interested matrons attended the opening. One, who had often been a spectator in courts, was the prosecutor's trim, Junior-Leaguish wife. The other had never attended a trial. She it was who, in 1903 (year after Thomas Edmund Dewey was born in Owosso, Mich.), as the prettiest girl in Tammany's Eleventh District, married an ambitious young Irish blacksmith, James J. Hines. She appeared in court, flanked by her bulky sons and their pretty-girl wives, only because Jimmy Hines was in the worst trouble of his rough-&-tumble career. Like Mrs. Dewey she went...