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directors into whole hands ' Qat o
the. Millions ulttlely ,;owed. And
they in Ours we're• protected by first,
- tiring politiolants. ""' '
Never to all Araerlea had there
beefs a consviction, of a top racketeer,
except occasionally for inbolmte 'tan
evaelon. For years in New .-.'York
there hadn't even ,been,- a substantial
complaint made aga$nst them. Those
who had once tried found th'eunselves.
the victims of racketeer revenge. It
was cheaper to pay up and kee your
•mouth shit. The previous District
Attorney had •publicly stated that it
was imposatible to ,prosecute racketeers
beoanse , no one would testify, There
w.as a`n impenetrable wall of silence
that protected organized crime. '
' "So what?" was the under'world's
comment when the Tammany' ) is-
trict Attorney, William C. Dodge, an-
nounced that on representations 'made
by an anti -vice society, the ltjarch
Grand Jury of 1935, under foreman
Lee Thompson, Smith:, had been A Plain the vice society would,
and that the attorney for
d act as Special
Prosecutor apeciflcally .to inquire into
• iz
Prose:in so -Dolled rackets." "They'll
never
G en that pull the broom out from Mader
that bed," said one racketeer, "be-
cause there's too .much dirt that
would spill all over."
At that very moment "Lucky Luc-
iano," in his lavish apartment in a
Park Avenue hotel, was organizing
his chain -store vice system. Julie
Martin was lining up the restaurants
on a pay -up -or -you'll -have -labor trots -
le basis.. Dapper Dixie Davis, from
his $13,000 office suite, was (accord-
ing to a later indictment) expertly
By• Hiram Motherwell in The Monitor supervising the transformation of tihe
policy game from a heartless, but rel-
atively honest lottery into a $100,-
000,000 fraud. And so on, through
scores of big shots who were build-.
Mg np this invisible super -corpora-
tion: Probably nobody in all New•.
York who was "in the know" believed
there was any way of stopping it,;
while the prosecuto'r's office remains
ed "under Tamimany control. .
But Smith bad great faith in the
broad power possessed by the Grand
Jury. For the Grand Jury, .unlike the
trial jury, is the investigating and
accusiog body under common law, us-
ing the common sense of the Common.
man" for' the protection •of tihe conn-
munit.y against crime. Far from be-
ing a mere tool of the prosecuting
attorney, it may investigate and ev-
en, if necessary, induct, him. As Pres-
ident of the Grand Jury Association
of New York County now, Smith is
tireless in preaching the use of the
Grand Jury by conscientious. citizens
ev'eryWhere • .at; s a weapon' againstgangsletrsiy4tl'd'' c{orruption-
For-a Week or •so after the Grand•
Jury went into session, the under-
world lay low. Then Sanihh began
getting threatening messages. One
was a letter:
",It will be in the interest of your
Physical and mental welfare and that
of your family to vete the right way
in the policy indictments."
• Mysterious telephone calls voiced
similar th're"9ts. S'om'e' of these Mrs.
Smith received, nervously but with
a. game spirit. Smith found that he
was being followed on the streets at
night, sometimes by a car full of , ug=
ly looking thugs. He arranged to
have his Children escorted to and
from school by a pol•iget�an'.—mlteh
;tq the 'delight of Marlon Florences sag,
7,eeI.,11, but Lee, ;Jr., f2, didn't ,kangy
'a cop as nwrsemaid.
Meanwhile the Grand Jury ,was
getting nowhere. Vie two young As-
sistant District Attorney whom
Dodge had assigned ,to. the investiga-
tion would arraign! ,a, man who, had
been caught printing policy tickets
on a small hand press. Petty police
cases, all—just remote flickering s'ba-
dows of the men who sat in swank
offices and hotel suites, directing the
army of crime. There was not a
.•chance ip the world, Smith realized,
of smashing a racket on evidence
like this.
Deprived' of expert assistance,
Smith went ahead singlehandedi.
of
talked confidentially with victims
the rackets, citizens above reproach,
men who knew the facts- The typi-
cal reaction, was: •
"I'11 tell you what I know in cons
fidence, but not before a court sten-
ographer. It's as much as my busi-
ness is worth- if the racketeers know
1 complain against them.,And you
know as well as I do that when my
evidende...reaches••.the District At-
torney's office the, mob wilt know a-
bout it before tthe day is over. That
place leaks like a sieve. And
thea --1"
Trying to corner the big -s'hots,
Smith got Dixie- Davis,. attorney -£or•
Dutch Schultz, en the stand, 'but
Davis pimply refused to:.talk. Si:0t ,
then insisted that the anti -vice atter-
nay present his evidence directly. diet
Dodge wouldh't'al'lovs thio—and a few.
days later relieved ,h4133. of his duties
as Special Prosecutor.
Smith then asked Dodge to give
his personal attention to the investi-
gation, but Dodge was "too biisy."
"Very well," Smith staid,, secure in
the knowledge that his fellow' Grand
Jurors were loyally with him, "we'll
get a competent proseootor somehoroW
if we have to go to the Governor fol •
thrim:' •
And that was e,iactdy what they
did. There : were weeks of fencing:
before Ta'tntnany finally Surrendered.
In one round Dodge agreed toappO
nt
a special prosecutor if the Grand
Jury would submit a list of nominees.
THEMcKILLOP MUTUAL Then he objected to each one sug-
FIRE INSURANCE CU'Y. gestted--estpecially -to one young fed-
eral prosecutor named Dewey, who
HEAD OFFICE — SEAFORTH, ONT. byhad bis prosecution ;Making
on of Waxy Gordon
and others tor income tax evasion.
He said tihe whole list was "just a
'po'lltdr-al trick."
Next, Dodge tried to impose an out-
side nominee on the Grand Jurors,
and now it was they who refused.
Then Dodge dramatibally announced
that they would have to aocelit his
nominee or he would ask the court
to discharge them.
But before Dodge oould act, Smith
presented before the presiding judge
a statement in which the Grand
Jury asked for its own dismissal, giv-
ing the reasons. It contained such
plain ,speaking as hadn't been Beard
in wait elude New York rackets be-
gan!: .
'"Rackets have reached such pro-
portions as to constittfte a;"public
menace'. . . . The ring in control
Lee Thompson .Smith Was
Foreman •of the Grand
Jury That Instituted the
Clean -Up of New York
Rackets.
Not ane New Yorlrer in a 'hundred
can tell you who Lee Thompson
Smith is. Yet' because of his work
an empire of organized criane in New
York City was overthrown: Dozens
,of rackets have been crippled or eon's
p1•etely smashed. Seventy-two top
racketeers have been jailed for long
terms and the rest 'are scattered ov-
er America and. other continents.
And, perhaps more important, the
'citizens of the entire United States
'have been shown for the first time
-how to checkmate marketeers and
their political allies.
It was Thomas E. Dewey, the Spe-
cial Rackets Prosecutor, now New
York County District Attorney, who
assembled the evidence and fought
theprosecutions through,. But plain
'Citizen. Smith, whose name was ohms
en blind out of a jury wheel, made
Dewey's work -possible.
Smith;: a genial, vigorous man in
his early 50's, is an ordinary business•
anan, neither wealthy no; influential,
and With neither experiencie nor am-
bitions in the realm! of law'''4h poli-
tics. -Educated in the New Y'o"rk pub-
lic schools and at a New England pri-
wate school, he has worked his way
'up to the presidency of a real estate
.firm. He lives in a modest apart-
anent
partanent in a quiet section of New York
aLd drives an old Packard car. His
children also went to public sehool,
but now are in ;hoarding school, He
is a member of several patriotic and
civic ergandza-tionsr-a typical Ameri-
can, even to his name.
His relative a.>iomymiiy in ° this
rackets prosecution nil of his' own
choosing.. I bad .to ,promise bins that
1 'credit for its ,.auccese would be
shared .equally", with the other Gwen
'3020•1,0 elle 'ar..11a4 Stu Y Q
wc he solos • Noonan.
10. February, 1935, the clerk of the .
«iurt drew Smith',o,; naane . from the
v;%e(4 • for service o?'. 4 grand jury to
1riyestigate, certain.. rackets- Smith
grumped'. a Attie, as) ¢o m'os't Amteri-
canss ut,tfinally acceptedr-fife ,more
ri:scidly„' Pertains because of ,some-
thing whirl had, happened a whole be -
fere, when lie. wfa.e visiting a town in
'ypsta.te New ,fork. He was being
shaved in . the Gown's , barber sloop
wln'en -twoplell entered and address-
ed the barber:
."We .represent the Barbers? Mutual
Protective Association," one of them
said. "You've got to raise the price
of ha'iscnt9 £rears; 25 cents to 50. The
initiation fee ie $20 and the dues 12
a week."
The barber said. he wasn't inter-
ested.
nterested. His clients wouldn't pay that
price.
"Now, that's ttoo bad," drawled- the
other visitor. "Over in — City
some barbers acted independent, and
—it's funny --their shops was all
smashed up last week."
Statoil. ,anlriily informed the racket~.
saes% .that he had! been a witness to
the attempted extortion, and he
w+'ould have them jailed, if they tried
it' again. He could do it, he said, be -
.cause he personally knew --and Mere
he flashed a, name that was mighty
hi the £own. '
The visitors only grinned. "Oh,
him!" said one. "We got him fix-
ed."
And it was true. The barber pres-
ently joined the Pnotective Associa-
tion.
This was in miniature what had
been going on all over AQnerica. In
New York City, the racket structure
was, reared on a grand acifle, extort-
ingt, under penalties ranging from
mirror property damage to murder, a
.penny ,here avid a dime there on the
° multitudinous transactions of the
city's daily life. The routine collec-
tion of this tribute went stm'ooth'ly, be-
cause the little fellows. were protect-
ed by the. brig shote' --the anonymous
underworld bankers and corporation
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The Stor7With
the
Quality
of rackets has nio fear whatsoever of
the Grand Jury's investigation .
prominent politicians protect it !n'
the point where no investigatio 1
would result • in an indiciahelOt of ism-
portae&i1 n'dihdtuals-
iousnee'sjl of this reaches even to the
intintatien that Ghe racketeers will
comtmit murder to •acompilsh their
ends, feeling Secure in the protection
that is claims to b'thetirs."
. And he clod e,.with, request that,
since this Grand Jury bad been
able to secure adequate legal assist-
ance, Governer Lehninn 'be requested;
to appoint a competent prosedntor to
start the job afresh. The public re-
action; was enormous. After much
consultation, the'Governtor ap1>oin'ted
Dewey. although at first he thought
him "too young." And lot fall, as
everybody knows, Dewey was chosen
by the people to succeed Dodge in an
election which s'bvept Tammany out
of control of all important municipal
offices, an election fortght largely on
the broad issue which s'm'ith and his
fellow• jurors bat' presented to the
i
public. As Prosddiltor. ° DstV1eY is earrYlliCg
ti
on Smith's werit. Al Marinelli, form-
er County Clerk a.nd Tammany Dis-
trict Leader, whom Dewey denounced
as a "political ally of thieves, pick-
pockets, thugs, dope peddlers and big
shot racketeers" is now under -in-
dicttment for tha.rborinng a fugitive from
justice. One particular "prominent
politician" whom Smith referred to as
top man in racket protection is on
Dewey's list for early attention The'
last stronghold of the invisible ems
pire is being, attacked. The fight'
which Smith -began as ,a private citi-
zen is beilgg brought flit victjoiy all
't is
along the line. 1
There is a sequel to the story.
Sini.th (wbo, by the way, belongs to
no political party) has been appoint-
ed by Mayor LaGuardia to the office.
which, in any corrupt mnn-1 1pality,
provides the juiciest single sduree of
graft—that in control of real eemte
condemnations and pmehasee. SMi h's
appointment is a guatrante'e that for
Sthe next four year re easy Money will
Slow from this tap to keep a political
machine oiled. It is an eltactiiaig,
gaveling job-
TUrt's the reward far doing y'ol
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civic duty: They always come
make you do more of it.
"Will you give me sixpence to g1Ytilt
a crippletnaa, dad?"
"Where is' he." o
In the pay boar at the efn.oix
Grettclren': "Gee• Wtat`a 'ilei
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