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Show BELIEVES IN "JURY TRAILING33 I i Arthur Dohon Hill, district attorney of Suffolk j!!'Si county, In which lloaton Is located, Is a terror to j0? n uo unclm grafter and Incidentally porhaps Mr, k wot Incidentally ho Is an ndvocato of tho much- WJl m debated system of having detectives watch tales- W2 L-f.i mon ami Jur'luon boforo and during tho trial of a 5, J&" W&jM cn8e- The district attorney began this system of for' "" fl? R "Jury trailing" whon a Jury In tho caso of George i AiJw W Hnttls, Republican politician accused of tho lar v xffl cony ' '30 which he drew from tho city trcas- V .itJHu W ury to purchase prizes for Fourth of July athletic BSw t contest winners, disagreed. Ho has kept It up JV A over Blnco and Boston folk say conviction has fob jfKsisk lowed couvlctlon since. WlmfKmh IHl1, wno 8Cnrco,y ool8 tho part of a prose '((llllllltWL irHfcW 1 cutor, having como of a Pack Hay family of schol ars, bookworms and blue-bloods (his father was professor of rhetoric at Harvard university for 25 years), has been a torror to tho municipal grafter. Ho sent Michael J Mltoholl, purchasing agent of tho city, to prison for n yoar for mulcttng tho city out of $13,000 on a flag stono deal and along with him managed to send Thomas F. Maher, tho contractor-briber. Maher will serve the sam term. Hill la Just 40. Ho was bom In Paris whllo his father and mother wore thoro on a visit. He first sprang Into promlnonco whon ho called John B. Maran, who formerly held down the district attorney Job and ran for governor govern-or of tho state afterward, a "four flusher." Moran was spectacular, Just the antlthosls of Hill, and got indictments, but not convictions. He didn't have the Juries lu Important cases watched. Hill says. |