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...cents) that the same figures will appear in some daily public statistic (e.g., daily bank clearances). Because the odds against the better are 1,000-to-1 and the payoff, minus commissions, is only 540-to-1, numbers is highly profitable to its bankers and collectors. When Dutch Schultz turned his energies from beer-running to numbers, he organized it along military lines with bet collectors at the bottom, controllers who tabulated their slips, bankers who hired the controllers and paid a share of their take to Dutch Schultz. In the early 1930's, numbers grossed some...
...Manhattan's prostitute trust. Elected District Attorney by grateful New Yorkers last year, Mr. Dewey has since been nosing into the hierarchy of Harlem's numbers games (lotteries), a one-time $100,000,000-a-year racket ruled by the late No. 1 Racketeer Arthur ("Dutch Schultz'') Flegenheimer...
...stand-in with the New Deal. He now distributes much Federal patronage in Manhattan for Democratic National Chairman Jim Farley. Prosecutor Dewey charged that the same hand which distributes this patronage received from $500 to $1,000 per week from the policy racketeers-headed first by the late "Dutch" Schultz, since his death by that gangster's slick lawyer, "Dixie" Davis-as the price for providing political influence (with police, judges, etc.) to keep the racketeers out of jail...
Richard F. Staples -- Miss Ann Schultz, Cambridge...
Wiley F. Barker -- Miss Frances Schultz, Denton, Texas...