Show COURT BATTLE WON BY DEWEY NEW tEW YORK Aug 30 Dis IP-Dis- Dis District i Attorney Thomas E E. Dewey I won the right today over strenuous I defense objections to introduce the testimony of a New York policeman in the conspiracy trial of James J J. Hines nines The disputed witness once attached attached attached at at- to the chief inspectors inspector's staff was broken dropped broken dropped in rank from a plainclothesman to a uniformed uniformed uniformed uni uni- formed harness bull bull after after he raided a policy or numbers game bank controlled by the late mob chieftain Dutch Schultz Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Ferdinant Pecora told the jury he had decided to admit the witness' witness testimony I over repeated objections by Defense Counsel Lloyd Paul Stryker because it could not be expected to be found in the official records of the police department that the transfers were made for any such reason Previous witnesses had sworn that Hines in his alleged role as political fixer for the Schultz racket combine used his in Influence influence u- u I ence to effect the transfer of police police police po po- po- po lice raiders to districts outside the mobs mob's racket territory The witness Patrolman Haymond Stilley said that after he raided a Schultz-dominated Schultz policy bank operated operated operated oper oper- by George Weinberg the rackets rackets rackets rack rack- ets business manager Weinberg came up to him as he left court and asked Is there anything we can do to get those policy slips Weve We've got gotto gotto gotto to pay payoff off the hits More than policy polley slips slips slips- recording bets to be played in the numbers game were game were confiscated by the police raiders I 1 told him no Stilley said Oh he quoted Weinberg as u retorting so joure youre one of these tough guys well guys well well we'll have to get you transferred Stilley said that after he be had participated participated participated par par- in more raids on Schultz banks he was dropped back into uniform with a a year pay re reduction reduction reduction re- re and was sent to a precinct station He said two other policemen inthe Inthe in inthe the raiding squad Sergeant Thomas Gray and Detective Canavan were also transferred |