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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 16, 1988.

SENSATIONAL TRIAL

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YORK POLITICAL WORLD

New York, To-day.

A trial which is expected to be the most sensational in the history of New York courts, and to lead to disclosures with regard to the influence of gangsters on City Judges and Magistrates, opened in the New York Supreme Court yes- terday.

Hundreds of police and detectives were stationed in the corridors of the building and the public was not admitted, all space being needed for the press and the 300 people from which the jury was to be chosen.

for the dead gangster,

The defendant, Mr. James J. per year Hines, Tammany Hall Leader, is "Dutch" Schultz and others. charged with bribery and operating lotteries.

New

with The indictment against Hines, and alleged fellow-membera of

Mr. Hines has for 20 years been Schultz's gang, declares that they York are able to determine the winning

number in the lottery.

a leading figure in politics.

He entered the court with a confident air, asserting that would be acquitted.

The maximum sentence which he may be inflicted on Hines, should all charges be proved, is 25 years' imprisonment.

The New York District Attorney,

The "New York Sun" (for years Mr. Thomas Dewey, who has been hunting down New York's rac-the mouth-piece of the Tammany keteers for the past year, alleges Hall regime) declares that upon that the defendant is involved in this trial largely depends whether a "policy racket" or a system of Tammany Hall will survive as a betting on numbers which, it is potent political factor in said, produced some £20,000,000| York politics.-Reuter.

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REBEL BID TO CAPTURE ALMADEN

Paris, To-day.

Insurgent cavalry are only 19 kilometres from the town of Alma- den, which is the centre of the

PALESTINE QUIET

London, To-day.

A telegram from the High Com- missioner for Palestine reports that during Sunday night the Iraq Pe- troleum Company's pipe line again damaged. Otherwise there were no major, incidents.-British Wireless.

was

Spainish mercury mines and refin- rushed to the Estremadura front to

ing industry, according to reports stem the Insurgent advance.

received here last night.

orces

The Insurgent, on their part, the have reinforced their cavalry by a

ber of light. nks.

ont. Insurgents

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Swedish Physical training. To day the Bergman Oster!

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