Dewey was undisturbed. He sent ^is investigators relentlessly on the trail, of the departed ones. Only Davis evaded the searchers and remained in the obscurity which was o cover him for twelve months, be-ore a reward of £1,000 tempted his d-headed sweetheart, Hope Dare, o betray him to the law.
Now at last he is to tell his story—in the witness box.
And what of Jimmy Hines, the strangest, most elusive figure of the tot?
Hines was once a blacksmith, work-ug in his father's forge. A brawny colourful Irishman, he was at home in the rowdy politics of New York. He got on to the Board of Aldermen 30 years ago. He became a district leader—the Eleventh District, up Harlem way—in 1912.
Since then he has been a shadowy figure, Only once has he run for public office, and then he lost. He nas been content to make and un-nake leaders at Tammany Hall.
He owes much of his prestige to his reputed power as a "fixer," a man influential with magistrates and the District Attorney's office, and able to bring luck" to prisoners charged vith minor offences.
Every winter he holds an enter-alnment to raise funds for local charities.
At Christmas he hands out turkeys ind chickens to poor families, In the: ummer he entertains 20,000 children to an ice-cream party in the Central Park.
He gives his age as 61, and his occupation as "contractor."
Dewey has several times mentioned Hines in his speeches as an associate of racketeers. His friends, however, "outend that he has devoted most of his energies in recent years to philanthropy in his own neighbourhood
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