HINES SENTENCED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 97, 24 March 1939, Page 8

HINES SENTENCED.

JUDGE DENOUNCES TACTICS. Received March 24. 1.15 p.m. NEW YORK, March 23. James Hines, the Tammany Hall leader, has been sentenced to four to eight years’ imprisonment. He is ineligible for parole for three years. The Judge commented that he was impressed by the evidence that Hines had used political power to influence the police and certain Magistrates. If he was not 62 years old the Judge said lie would have imposed a more severe sentence. Hines’s arrest in May caused a sensation. It was made possible through the confession of three members of the “Dutch’ Schultz gang indicating that Hines provided protection against, the arrest and prosecution of this most notorious racketeer, whose gains were estimated to total one hundred million dollars from the numbers lottery, in which even school children’s pennies were raked in. llines was released on 20.000 dollars’ bail.

George Weinberg, who was expected to be thc°star witness in the second trial of Hines, shot himself dead on January 29 in the bathroom of his home. Ho used a pistol belonging to a detective assigned by Mr Thomas E. Dewey (State Attorney) to prevent just such an occurrence. Weinberg found the gun in the poeket of the detective’s overcoat in a bedroom wardrobe.