Known as the "Numbers Queen" of Harlem, Stephanie St. Clair built an enormously successful gambling empire in the 1920s. Fiercely protective of her domain, the African racketeer faced off against any gangsters who tried to take control of her numbers game.
When a German-Jewish mobster named Dutch Schultz tried to invade her territory, St. Clair ordered her men to destroy businesses associated with him. Though Schultz sent one of his men to intimidate her, St. Clair simply pushed him into a closet, locked the door, and told her bodyguards to "take care of him."
Though St. Clair had no hand in Schultz's eventual assassination, she crowed over his demise, even sending him a deathbed telegram that read: "As ye sow, so shall you reap."
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