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For years Hines romped with children of his district at picnics of his Monongahela Club. He watched such local boys make good as Frank Costello, "King of the slot machines" and Harry ("Gyp the Blood") Horowitz, executed murderer. Once he went $15,000 bail for "Scratch" McCarthy, forger (now jailed). Hines explained that as an active political leader who regularly attended sporting events his friendship was sought "by persons in various walks of life"—but insisted he shared none of their illicit profits.
The District Attorney proved that the numbers racketeers did pay him $500 to $1,000 a week for protection from 1933 to 1935. The writers of the probation report paid him this tribute:
"His processes of thought are clear, direct and, within limitations, coldly logical."
Judge Charles Nott Jr., who sentenced him, simply summarized Boss Hines thus:
"Instead of using his political power and influence for the well-being of the city and for the promotion of law and order and good government, he used his position for the promotion of the interests of this crowd of criminals."
† J. Richard ("Dixie") Davis, the racket's lawyer, and Harry Schoenhaus, the racket's treasurer, both of whom turned State's evidence, got respectively one year (of which 170 days had al ready been served), and a suspended sentence.