The Washington Times, 18 December 1930, page 3: "N. Y. Vice Fires Flare Anew"

Page 3 of The Washington Times for Thursday, 18 December 1930. In the right-hand column, below a Chicago crime round-up, is a short item headed “N. Y. Vice Fires Flare Anew,” datelined “NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (I.N.S.).” The headline was read from the stored scan; the Library’s OCR garbles it.

The item says a report to the appellate division was expected on the case of Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky, questioned that week by Isidor J. Kresel, “special counsel in the inquiry into the lower courts.” It continues: “A new development in the inquiry came when Stephanie St. Clair, Harlem policy queen, asserted after leaving Kresel’s office that she had paid tribute regularly to magistrates. Miss St. Clair said that at one time her income from the policy business was $7,000 a day, and that she employed 130 agents in her gambling affair. She charged one of her aides had been spirited out of town by police to prevent his appearance in court.”

The figures are what she was reported to have said; this archive does not adopt them. “Harlem policy queen” is the wire service’s label.