Word: howden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sullivan admitted that, as a friendly gesture, he had given an honorary sheriff's card to a man representing Bookmaker Frank Erickson in Miami Beach. A more embarrassing aspect of his relations with gamblers was brought up by two of his former deputies. One of them, Richard Howden, told the investigators that the other, one Tom ("Sailor") Burke, had been the sheriff's "bag man," had delivered $36,000 in payoff money to the sheriff's wife and had gotten signed receipts for the boodle. Burke, however, heatedly denied the charge. That sort of thing, he strongly...