Reading, Roxborough, Watson, and several others were convicted on conspiracy charges, with Roxborough receiving a 2 1⁄ 2- to 5-year sentence, and Reading sentenced to four to five years. Former mayor Richard Reading was said to have received $18,000 in payoffs. The grand jury in the trial of 71 defendants charged that 10 policy houses had been paying $600 a month in payoffs equally divided between the chief of police, the head prosecutor and the mayor, with smaller bribes in the $25 to $50 range going to individual police sergeants and lieutenants. Yellow Dog was said to be doing $4,900 daily in business, totaling $1.5 million a year. Big Four was said in testimony to be doing $800,000 business a year, with profits of up to $6000 a week. Among the policy houses operating were 'Big Four Mutuale' (owned by John Roxborough, boxer Joe Louis's manager), 'Yellow Dog' (owned by Everett Watson), 'Tia Juana', 'Interstate', 'Mexico and Villa' (operated by Louis Weisberg), 'New York', 'Michigan', and others. A 1941 trial exposed Detroit's extensive numbers operations.
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