New York, Sept. 6.
Further evidence that James J. Hines, former Tammany Hall leader, received weekly sums of money to protect the US$100,000,000 lottery racket conducted by the. - late "Dutch" Schultz and his associates was given in court today by Mr. Harry Schoenhaus, a book-keeper of ihe murdered gangster.
The book-keeper testified that he assigned money to Hines on behalf of ihe Schultz gang every week. He said on several occasions he personally had paid Hines the money. He testified that he usually assigned US$500 and sometimes bigger sums to Hines weekly.
The sensational trial of Hines on charges of protecting the lottery racket, forcing judges to drop cases against Schultz gangsters and obtaining money from Schultz for the purpose of conducting political campaigns to achieve his own desires neared its end with the conclusion of the bookkeeper's testimony.
It was believed that Mr. Thonias Dewey, District Attorney, would wind up the case for the State this week.
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