FOUND GUILTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 48, 27 February 1939, Page 7

FOUND GUILTY.

TAMMANY LEADER.

Spectacular Legal Victory For New York Attorney.

LOTTERY RACKET CHARGE.

Ciiited Press Association. —Copyright.

XEW YORK. February 26. At the second trial of .James J. Hines, formerly a district, leader of Tammany Hall, the jury, after seven hoilrs' deliberation, convicted accused on all 13 counts in the indictment. The main charge was that he had conspired with gangsters to create iand operate a "policy"' or lottery raeket estimated to have yielded 20,000,000 dollars a year. Hines now faces a maximum of 27 years' imprisonment.

It was a spectacular victory for the Prosecutor. Mr. T. E. Dewey, Xew York County District Attorney. Most observers were expecting an acquittal, and it is considered that the conviction almost asstires Mr. Dewey of the Republican Presidential nomination in 1940.

The sentence will be announced on March 13. Hines heard the verdict without a sign of emotion. His attorney announced that he will appeal immediately. Mr. Dewey, in a statement, said: > 'It is a reassertion of democracy's ability to clean its own house and cast out those who betray it." Hines was also charged* with attempting to influence and intimidate judicial officers and others charged with the duty of enforcing and administering the laws of Xew York. The first trial of Hines, heard before Mr. Justice Pecora. broke down last , September after the closing of the State's case, due to the introduction in cross-examination of matter the judge considered improper and prejudicial.