DUTCH SCHULTZ – The Most Ruthless Mob Boss Of Them All 

one of the most feared and ruthless Mobsters to ever walk the streets of New York Dutch Schultz made millions in the 1920s and 30s by murdering enforcing and intimidating his way up the ladder of organized crime leaving anyone who stood in his way sinking to the bottom of the East River encased in a pair of concrete boots whilst he watched from his boat the air bubbles that broke the surface eventually stop often smiling with satisfaction quite rightly portrayed as psychotic and bloodthirsty by both Tim rth in the 1997 film hudlin and a few

years earlier by Dustin Hoffman in Billy Bathgate crime ran rich in the blood of this German immigrant who was dragged up in the slums of the Bronx and Rose to the top of the New York underworld whilst threatening to destroy everyone around him in the process if you’re new here this channel combines cook in a morbid curiosity where I recreate the last of notable people including gangsters serial killers and musicians hence the name the Last Supper the clip you’re seeing now for example is the last meal of the protagonist of this

video Dutch Schultz which I recreated a few years back on my first and previous documentary style video I’ve released covering the life of Chicago gangster haime Weiss I had a few confused firsttime viewers so I thought I’d give you some context about the channel whilst we’re on the subject please do consider subscribe and if you enjoyed the video New York at the turn of the 20th century a city which had become the financial center of the United States since the end of the Civil War in 1865 35 years earlier politics was now in a

progressive era and this combined with being the new Financial Hub of the United States brought an enormous growth in Industry population and wealth wealth that Finance Cutting Edge technology and construction major new Bridges were built between Manhattan Brooklyn and Queens which Ena commuting and a huge industrial base a state-of-the-art subway system was the heart and soul of the city a city that also expanded its Port facilities improved its traffic system built hundreds of new Elementary and high schools and engaged in large

scale public health programs this was the nuts and guts of their work but being New York they needed to show off and many of the largest buildings in the world now nicknamed skyscrapers were built in Manhattan during this time including the Park Road building and the Manhattan life insurance building on Broadway words spread postcards were printed and dreams were Dreamt by millions worldwide a newr a new start in a modern and Forward Thinking City and Country all you needed for this new life was your fair to sail

to the promised land and all your dreams will come true aspirations blossomed in the hearts of millions and European immigration witnessed a significant surge welcoming a wave of Irish Italian and polish Catholics along with yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe and Germany two of those aforementioned blossoming hearts that just stepped foot onto the busy floorboards of Ellis Island The Immigrant inspection and processing station of the states were Herman and Emma flegenheimer a young German Jewish couple whose hope-filled Hearts were

only Amplified sailing past the Statue of Liberty a few minutes earlier they hailed from a small tobacco farming Village called tach south of Frankfurt and had learned of the promised life that America offered a few years prior they were both 28 and had saved up their weekly wage to afford their ticket to a better life after the cattle farm like intrusion and inspection carried out by the guards of Ellis Island the young couple settled in the Upper East Side as many German Jewish immigrants did at the time they were married in Manhattan on

November the 10th 1900 and they must have had a late night on their wedding day as nearly exactly 9 months later on August the 6th 1901 they had their first child a son they named ARA who was delivered at their Yorkville home 1692 Avenue off 89th Street Emer and Herman were not religious and never took ARA to a synagogue although I imagine even if they did that wouldn’t help this young boy who was at first so innocent and full of life but would eventually go on to be one of the most feared mob bosses in the whole of America Herman found

work as a baker then a Glazer and for a while he ran a liary stable he later ran a saloon in Yorkville in his clientele with the German Jewish immigrants that he Associated himself with and sailed over to the promis land with Emma was a housewife and raised young Arthur and his sister Helen born three years later in 1904 life was tough for the flegenheimer the promised land turned out to be nothing like the postcards and they had been sold a dream the blossom in their hearts had quickly wilted a few days after their Stones had hit the

horsemen y Soo cobblestones of New York this was supposed to be a Forward Thinking city a city with the tallest buildings that offered countless opportunities the best public health facilities in the world and where dreams came true in reality this was a city that failed to provide proper housing safety or hygienic conditions for over 66% of its population the flegenheimer has quickly realized that the living conditions in the city were far worse than what they had left behind in Europe except for the prospect of employment

not just the flegenheimer but life for the average immigrant of New York City during this immigration wave was challenging upon arrival they often faced hostility from Americans biased against newcomers once they secured residency typically in crowded tenement buildings of which 1692 Avenue was definitely one of they were confronted with severe overcrowding limited access to water and hygiene facilities and frequent outbreaks of diseases like Cera and typhus families of 10 to 15 people were crammed into two small rooms one

serving is a kitchen and the other is a bedroom by 1900 more than 2third of the population lived in such conditions in around 880,000 largely unregulated tenement buildings organized crime flourished even as iconic buildings were constructed and Ma’s department store emerged in 1890 Jacob Reese published How the Other Half Lives catching the attention of New York City Police Commissioner Theodore Rosevelt however the call for improving immigrant lives was slow to be acted on issues such as child labor forc prostitution ution and

economic exploitation persisted for decades one day these grimy conditions proved all too much for Herman flegenheimer and he quickly abandoned the household before ARA’s eth birthday this event ripped apart the family and deeply traumatized young ARA who would spend the rest of his years denying that his father deserted him and instead told friends enemies and reporters that his father had died quickly changing the subject Emma flegenheimer decided that the conditions in Yorkville were not suitable to raise her son and daughter

and she decided to move into another tournament building in the lower Bronx Arthur remained deeply affected by his father’s decision to leave them in the Lurch and this quickly began to surface when his behavior spiraled out of control as he began his education at public school 12 in the Bronx where interestingly his principal was Dr John fondan the man who in 1932 would tossed a $50,000 Ransom money for the limber baby over the wall in St Raymond Cemetery by all accounts Arthur was a bully at school threatening and

extorting other students for the little money they had he sowed the seeds during his school days which would soon Sprout into him being a full-blown Menace in later life academically however Arthur was no slouch and Avid Reader something that he carried with him into later life at school he was noted to have particularly excelled in both history and composition this is All That Remains today of public school 12 located in Westchester Square a car park now occupies the majority of where the school stood and where ARA ran riot at

lunchtime the part of the building Still Standing is now used as offices for the school maintenance Bureau interestingly a new public school 12 has been erected nearby and it host students who are troubled youngsters most sent there by Juvenile cours perhaps rather fitting as this is somewhere Arthur would have definitely been in contention of attending if they had them in 1910 fast forward to 1915 and Arthur is now 14 and has just quit school in the sixth grade to find work to support his family his mother Emma has found it hard to support

Arthur and his sister Helen since Herman abandon the family and Arthur decided his time would have been better spent trying to make ends meet on the vicious and knife plunging Street of the Bronx he began selling papers and Subway transfers around the busy station at 149th Street and Third Avenue in the South bronx’s Hub he then progressed to becoming an office boy and running errands for local businesses where the pay was more steady and it was not as cold as standing outside the station in those harsh New York Winters as artha

got a little older he began to work as a feeder and Pressman in the factories of the Clark Loose Leaf company then cxed and press and finally for American Express of all companies he later also works with composition Roofing and as a trucker for a local Bronx company called Schulz Trucking before quitting when he was 17 as he quickly realized that crime paid better than an honest day work I didn’t want to work a regular 9 to-5 like the rest of the other Schmucks he would so profoundly and poetically explain in a later interview

exceptionally gifted at pool he began hustling non the wiser Old-Timers in the Bronx bars and gained a reputation as a tough pool shark once he had relieved the naive punters of their dollar and dimes occasionally he would encounter an opponent who didn’t appreciate that he’d been conned into thinking ARA was a bad player after uping his Stakes on the next game and this is where he began making a name for himself in the Bronx underworld The Irate reveler demanding his money back would often be met with a pull queue wrapped around his head other

times a pull ball in a sock would be the weapon of choice sometimes a good oldfashioned fist fight would usually calm down the hustled player before Arthur had to draw for one of the many weapons he kept on his person it was presumably during these early days of making an easy dollar that he caught the eye of the local Bergen gang whose headquarters was the Social Club a ston throw from the Yankee Stadium home of the New York Yankees from here whilst babe Ru was making a name for himself in the Yankee Stadium Arthur was making a

name for himself in the streets that surrounded it mixing in various crime circles and eventually meeting a mentor figure called Marcel puffo in the criterian club a local hland Marcel was that you can make more on the streets of New York than you ever could as a feed a Pressman in its factories they began stealing packages off delivery trucks looting neighborhood stores breaking into apartments and ARA particularly found a talent for sticking up dice games that wouldn’t pay for protection or a percentage to the duo a decorated

Bronx detective who knew Arthur in these wild months running with Marcel spoke to a newspaper a few years later and remembered Arthur as a tough teenager who you couldn’t walk past without being intimidated by or questioned this is Fred Shadel the affable and sizable police officer who became the human target on the day that notorious Francis tugon Crowley earned his monik this event unfolded in March 1931 when the brother-in-law of Crowley’s invited Shadel to a downtown Manhattan office building to facilitate the surrender of

the youthful Outlaw wanted for a double murder in the Bronx Crowley did appear and willingly surrendered his firearm to the detective however he abruptly changed his mind at the last moment producing a smaller weapon from his shirt sleeve and Unleashed a barrage of bullets striking Shadel in the pelvis bladder and thigh before making his Escape despite shadel’s recovery Crowley met his fate in a Hollywood style shootout with 150 police officers at Westside boarding house on May 7th detective Johnny brck eventually

apprehended him leading to Crowley’s execution in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison eight months later marking the end of Crowley’s criminal exploits I have covered T grun Crowley’s life and last meal before so you can watch that by clicking the card on the screen now but back to Shadel who contrasts the inFAMOUS two gon Crowley with the Arthur flegenheimer heu acknowledging Arthur’s occasional bad temper but insisting that he was not comparable to the gun obsessed animal that Crowley was reflecting on the past ad recalls young

Arthur as one of the street corner toughs in the old morzaria District gang which included Vincent k a man who will later be dubbed Mad Dog become a rival and scare arur into reclusiveness shadal a resident of the same mement in the Recollections he remembers that a rofer in the neighborhood occasionally enlisted Arthur and his friends for o jobs I guess this was a composite roofing work Emma flegenheimer Arthur’s mother was now facing di circumstances after her husband Herman had disappeared and had been working as the janitor of

the Bronx tenament they liveed lived in supplementing their income by taking him washing Shadel recalls that the flegenheimer had it worse than most families which is initially why Arthur began terrorizing the streets of the Bronx it was during this reign of terror on those streets that Arthur received his first and only prison sentence he was caught redhed in the middle of breaking into a bronx apartment along with this mug shot Arthur gave the name Charles Harmon an alias he would use throughout his criminal career he was

sent to Blackwell’s Island Penitentiary built in 1832 because the treacherous tides of the East River would make Escape almost impossible it was the Alcatraz of its day it later became known as welfare Island and today we know it as Rosevelt Island however the Blackwells Island Penitentiary spell for ARA did absolutely nothing to rehabilitate him and just like at public school 12 he proved himself to be a dangerous and tricky inmate eventually the prison guards found him so unmanageable that in 1919 he was transferred from Blackwell’s Island to

West Hampton prison farms near Goan however Arthur didn’t take to that Correctional Institution either and broke out he was recaptured after just 15 hours on the lamp and had another two months slapped onto his sentence he served 15 months in total the only 15 months he would ever spend Behind Bars between the stints at Blackwells Island and West Hampton he returned to the Bronx streets suitably hardened and a times- served criminal he adopted the new name of Dutch Schulz a nickname he borrowed from a much feared brawler in

the early days of the Frog Hollow gang an Italian gang who operated from Frog Hollow a predominantly Italian part of the Bronx Arthur or Dutch Schultz as he was now known had matured some in prison he now sported a jawy cap and chewing tobacco as we entered the early days of prohibition or the 18th Amendment as it was known prohibition was first suggested by a group of wives of alcoholic husbands who had had enough of their spouses spending the rent money in saloons they were spearheaded by a crazed religious Maniac called car

Nation Carrie believed she had a call from God to stop Americans drinking alcohol and would often March into a saloon singing or praying while smashing the place up with a hatchet in which she had engraved onto the wooden handle death to run between 1900 and 1910 she was arrested 30 times for this public show of criminal damage or hatchetti as she liked to call them in one Hatchet she traveled to Kansas City a place that was well known in its opposition to Prohibition she marched down 12th Street in downtown Kansas with a trusty Hatchet

and smashed up hundreds of bottles of liquor and numerous bars until she was finally arrested landlords and bartenders were so fearful that their drinking hole might be the next to suffer a hatchetti that they invested in cannons and would often wheel them out when she came walking down the road this became the only tactic that would deter her signs that read all nations welcome except for Carrie became bar Staples and her Antics became known Nationwide I think Carrie Nation is a video for another day but currently in Dutch

schulz’s world the ruling fathers of Washington had just declared booze and Spirits null void evil and against the law the Roaring 20s were in their infancy but certainly transpiring America was going through a social Revolution coming off the back of World War I Society was changing as inhibitions faded and the youth demanded more experiences and freedom Arthur now 18 and fresh out of penitentiary was parading the Bronx streets and back alleys looking for the next quick book they were streets which had begun

welcoming some more affluent citizens of New York in recent weeks due to the fact that the Bronx was littered with speak easys secret bars where alcohol was still served despite prohibition being in place such establishments in the Bronx were one like the hubs Criterion restaurant close to where a young Arthur would sell papers and Subway transfers the Criterion restaurant was run by Billy Gibson a boxing promoter and one-time manager of both Jean Tony and Billy Leonard both respectively good boxers of their day another

establishment which seemed to turn a blind eye to Prohibition was the famous man hat and mobster Jack legs diamonds Bronx theatrical Club across the road from the Criterion these speak EES were cropping up all over New York and quite boldly sticking their finger up to the law and selling alcohol on their premises it became quite clear to Dutch Schultz that there was money to be had in alcohol and quite a lot of it too this is where the Dutchman will take his first step into notoriety in stardom where he will leave the paper selling an

office ER and running days behind in a previous employment at Schulz Trucking a time in his pre-prison life that might have inspired his new nickname he used to help on the wagons for brothers Otto and Jake gas who owned the company and in turn worked for the mobster and Bank roller Arnold Rothstein with the Advent of prohibition the gas Brothers had realized that there was a bigger book to be made in transporting beer for rth Ste than almost any other profession and so they jettisoned their usual cargo and

filled their trucks with cold fizzy illegal beer it was here whilst working on the trucks for Arnold Rothstein that Dutch first met lucky luchano another understudy of Rothstein trying to make his way in the world it’s also during this time that Arthur shows the ruthless nature that will stick with him throughout the duration of his life when he shoots and kills a rival run runner another friend of schulz’s named Joey noi whose father was a bear pipe cleaner also found out that there was more money in the bear inside the barrel than

cleaning out the pipes it ran through beer cost $4 a keg back then it then went to the illicit Distributors someone like Schulz Trucking for example for $9 and once delivered to a Speak Easy A whole Barrel would fetch around $20 not a bad profit at all Joey and Dutch were both significantly attracted to these straightforward economic principles and it was Joey who made the first move into becoming a bootlegger Joey and Dutch had been Inseparable since his mother Emma made the decision to move away from Yorkville to the lower Bronx Joey was

only an inch taller but much tougher he was was the only man that Dutch ever took an order from he was also the only man Dutch allowed to call him Arthur and the only person he took along to see his mother when he later moved out of the tenement building she was doing the washing of to support him as a child and into his own place the pair knew that the bootlegging industry was competitive at present and also incredibly violent something they were both accustomed to they came up with a cunning and ingenious plan for Arthur to become

deputy sheriff of the Bronx this would allow him to carry a firearm without being arrested using the proceedings of the money Arthur made while running with Marcel pufo before his stretch in jail they bribed the sheriff of the Bronx Edward J Flynn who would later be a leading Democratic politician leading the Bronx Democratic party and a close friend of both presidents Franklin D Roosevelt and Harry S Truman to appoint Arthur the unpaid deputy sheriff of the Bronx to which he accepted with dollar signs in his eyes and hilariously Dutch

Schulz held a brass deputy sheriff badge which allowed him to carry his trusty cult revolver something he’d grow very close to freely in public this was not good news for the fellow budding Bootleggers of the Bronx says Arthur would not be afraid to use his pistol to get what he wanted as Joey noi a seasoned and hardened criminal himself would put a few years later when Arthur was around I gave my armed guard a night off Joey and Arthur set up a hole in the wall Speak Easy in Joey’s tournament building at 543 Brook Avenue The Hub

Social Club as the duo named it was in the shop on the left disguised as a regular convenience store here but it was not only candies cigars and soda they sold inside a legal beer was flowing thanks to the connections of the pair and Otto and Jake gas from schz Trucking made Regular deliveries and by 1928 the regulars of the Hub Social Club claimed it to be the best beer in the Bronx Joey and Arthur both in their mid 20s Now set up several watering holes with their Brook Avenue profits and it took no time for them to decide they may

as well provide the beer for their rival speak EES that were littered in abundance around the Bronx as well Otto and Jake gas introduced them to their Brewer a man called Frankie Dunn out of Union City in New Jersey and the PA invested in three old trucks to transport the beer from New Jersey soon they were ready to start providing the beer to other speakes some which didn’t quite like the idea at first however Arthur and Joey were enormously persuasive as author Paul S writes in his book on Arthur’s life killed a

Dutchman it was just like the movies of the time somebody came into the joint tilted his Fedora back on his head ordered a beer licked his lips made a face said something about the Brew being unfit for human consumption asked where the slop was coming from and then said well from now on you got to buy it from us after that you bought it from us or US came back with some helpers and wrecked your joint never failing to open up all the TAPS in the process with these intimidating and convincing tactics rolled out to several joints

across the Bronx most complied with the duo and began buying beer from them after disposing of a few com beting beer salesmen they had effectively set up quite a nice Monopoly for themselves emanating from their M Haven focal bar The Hub social club and were beginning to make names for themselves across New York naturally in the pursuit of profit and is the case with any business venture Joey and Arthur did encounter some adversaries however notably in the form of the defiant Rock Brothers John and Joe who had long established

territory in the Bronx and had a foothold there whilst Joey and Arthur were still loitering on street corners as the pair began throwing their weight around and applying pressure onto the rock Brothers the elder brother John stepped aside with a modest show of resistance however Joe showcasing his resilient Irish Spirit persisted to decline to step back from the beer business and for this he paid an Aston inly high price with Dutch schul showcasing the first display of why he later earned a reputation of a monster

across New York one night Joey and arur kidnapped Joe Rock and beat The Living Daylights out of him they then took him back to one of their warehouses where they stored beer and hung him up by his thumbs on meat hooks continuing to beat him breaking a rib at a time finally in a vicious Act of Cruelty they blindfolded him with a bandage which Alfred acquired from a local whw house and more specifically from a prostitute riddled with gona causing him to go blind on the edge of death and now a blind man Joe Rock was held in the

warehouse for ransom money of which his family had to pay $35,000 to arur and Joey to release what was left of their once rival The Rock brothers were no more and words spread across the city which was only strok in the narcissistic egos of Arthur and Joey who had plans to expand their business across New York however they would surely meet greater foe than the rock Brothers in the likes of Manhattan so they began recruiting for their Bronx Brigade or the noise Schultz gang as it was known and they put together nothing

short of an intimidating Army of all the worst killers and Trigger men going Bo Weinberg a much feared enforcer was one of their disciples as was Vincent Co who would later be named madg and his kid brother Peter Larry Carney an aggressive character and an early supporter of SCH stood alongside fatty Walsh who later served as a bodyguard for Mafia King bin Arnold Rothstein jery Ral and FATZ McCarthy also became Disciples of the ruthless Dutchmen and this crew of Bronx Outlaws made them a force to be reckoned

with a newspaper was quoted at the time is saying you could take over a South American government with a band of killers like that their operation was growing at a rapid rate with their new recruits they had to obtain new suppliers to keep up with the orders from Fright and speak eases which they were adding to their portfolio in the modest Brewery of Frankie duns and Union City could not keep up so they began business with two new suppliers who had breweries in New York Frenchie Dylan and J Co ha with a more fruitful supply of

beer and with Frenchie Dylan now on board the boys were also able to supply gin and whiskey the Bronx Army were able to expand their territory and move into Manhattan a long aspiration of both Joey and arur they began in Manhattan’s upper west side and into the neighborhoods of Washington Heights Yorkville and Harlem where their business flourished with this increase in the pair’s net worth they bought an old Warehouse near the M Haven railroad yards which they revamped and moved underground they called it the

tins and it was practically a showpiece it was that elaborate that it made any other bootlegging operation in the country seem mediocre it was equipped with disappearing elevators which took huge empty bear trucks underground and fully restocked them ready to go on their way not only to the Bronx but also to their newly acquired neighborhoods in Manhattan their modest little operation originating from Joey noi’s tenement building on Brook Avenue was now big time and they relocated their headquarters from that tenement building

to an office building on East 149th Street in typical Arthur and Joey fashion however this wasn’t a normal office building the walls of the office were lined with thick steel and the door was also similarly bulletproof they also had a book case which revolved and revealed an arsenal of weapons on the other side if the gang needed them to meet Joey and ARA you had to first get past one of their lieutenants who sat behind a bulletproof 10-inch peep pole and once you got past him fat McCarthy and Bo Weinberg Sat by the door with

Thompson submachine guns the duo knew that musling into Manhattan could bring trouble and were taking their safety seriously and for good reason on the night of October the 28th 1928 Joey and ARA still Inseparable dropped into the swanny club under the famous Apollo Theater on West 125th Street in Harlem the duo were now tasting the fruits of their labor and living the High Life the swan was a universal neutral ground for men who live dangerously and no mobster nor room Runner would ever dream of firing a gun in there the rule was that

if you encountered a rival mobster you had one drink and got out of there unless the Rival volunteered to leave first it was a safe haven for the likes of Dutch and Joey as it was also frequented by most off-duty cops in the area who obviously didn’t adhere to the rules of prohibition it was one of the Dutchman’s favorite spots and on this evening he was drinking whiskey until the early hours of the morning when Joey noi the only man Dutch ever took an order from insisted that they had to go downtown to deal with some business

Dutch drove Joey in his Ford Sedan downtown to a hotel called the chatau Madrid where the pair conducted business before Dutch left a short time later around 7:00 a.m. the residents of West 54th Street were awoken by a roar of gunfire and had them rush into their Windows to see a blue Cadillac speeding erratically away before their eyes focused on the sidewalk in front of the Chateau Madrid where a man lay injured desperately returning fire at the Cadillac which had just hit a park car and driven off the man was Joey noi he

had been ambushed and shot in his right breast left hand and spine all that remained on the scene with Joey was the door of the Cadillac which had fallen off when it hit the park car Joey was still alive just he was desperately wounded but goar him rushed to Roosevelt Hospital he denied knowing his as salent and explained that he was was parking his car when two guys began shooting at him upon further questioning from the police he snapped and explained I’ll take care of it myself the Dutchman was alerted and immediately visited his

partner in hospital within an hour of Dutch leaving Rosevelt Hospital a blue Cadillac with a door missing contain in the bullet ridden body of Lewis Weinberg was found on the Lower East Side the police quickly established this was the man who exchanged gunfire with Joey noi and in fact Joey did know his as salent he was just waiting for his trusty right-and man to turn up they put two into two together and transferred Joey to the Belleview hospital prison Ward unless he agreed to speak after a few weeks however it was physically

impossible for Joey to speak the damage from the bullets had caused infection in his body and he wasted a away to 90s before eventually succumbing to his injuries on November the 21st dut Schulz was at his bedside the whole time Schulz was caught up by the loss of his partner Joey was the closest friend he would ever have and he’ just been ripped from him he was crushed when he apprenticed for Marcel PUO he may have drawn some inspiration but noi the only man who went to see his mother with him called him arer as he did when they were

running his kids on the Bronx streets without a care in the world told him when to stop drinking after he got gidon late night bars and had any kind of authority over the Dutch man at all was now dead and it’ll be a cold day in Hell before Dutch schz let whoever was behind the hit get away with it but who was behind the hit like noi Dutch won’t tell the police after he leaves Joey’s deathbed and he questioned on his knowledge Yes Lewis Weinberg turned up dead but he was only a soldier he wasn’t behind the hit ever Schulz does have the

knowledge since they mused into Manhattan they’ve been upsetting a few people namely fellow mobster Jack Le Diamond Manhattan was his territory and it was the clientele frequenting his Bronx theatrical club which inspired artha to get involved in bootlegging in the first place Arthur and Joey had pushed diamond out of the Bronx as they strived for complete dominance in the beer business the year before and Diamond had kept a grudge especially now since they were encroaching onto his Manhattan territory noi had also told

Dutch in the swany club earlier that evening he was picking up some money from Diamond that he owed to the Bronx boys the two factions were civil and used to help each other out when one supplier would fall short despite the animosity Diamond held towards Joey and artha for musling in apparently it seems however one day the animosity took over him as he planned to take out both of them that same morning Dutch told joery in the swanny club that he would come with him and someone who overheard their conversation or who was sitting at the

table with them informed Diamond that both would be there and he tried to seize the opportunity with Joey and ARA gone Manhattan would be his once more however with artha leaving a few minutes before the hit up place he only took out 50% of the leaders of the Bronx boys and he took out the more reasonable and level-headed half in Joey noi effectively signing his own death warrant at the time Dutch whiskey drunk and hellbent on Revenge tried to assassinate diamond in the years that followed while slowly absorbing his

Empire in Manhattan the first assassination attempt came in 1930 when two of schulz’s men possibly Bo Weinberg and fat McCarthy forced their way into Diamond’s room at the hotel mon ell on Manhattan’s west side and Unleashed five slugs into his body before fleeing thinking that they’ put an end to the biggest Bootlegger in Manhattan however Diamond survived he managed to pull himself from his Blood Stained bed down two shots of whiskey and staggered to the hallway of the hotel and collapsed alerting other guests who rushed him to

the Polyclinic hospital and he made a full recovery during leg Diamond’s Hospital stay he was forced to relinquish most of his Manhattan territory including the popular hoty toy club to Schulz and by the end of April 19 31 he was trying to carve out new territory for himself in Albany 150 Mi away from his ex stomping ground of Broadway Dutch got word of a restaurant leg Supply be to and like to frequent with his goons called the aroga in near Cairo in the cat skills as he finished up with three companions who he was

negotiating Boo’s business with he was ambushed and shot three times by shortz’s men and collapsed by the front door with wounds that any M mortal would have succumbed to a local resident who had grown fond of legs and his ability to keep the small time flowing with beer drove him down to a hospital in Albany where he again miraculously recovered the Manhattan papers got wind of his recovery and dubbed him the clay pigeon of the underworld as astonishingly before this beef with the Dutchman Diamond had survived two more shootings

in 1925 and 1927 upon reading that diamond had survived Dutch bellowed in a common outrage ain’t there nobody who can shoot this guy so he don’t bounce back his anger must have resonated with the Bronx boys as on December the 18th 1931 someone did shoot this guy and he didn’t bounce back still exiled from Manhattan with Dutch imposing a shoot on site order should legs handmade brogues ever touch the streets of the city again Diamond was staying in a cheap rooming house at 67 Dove street in Albany whilst on trial for a separate kidnapping that

happened in Troy on the night of his acquittal to celebrate Diamond his family and his friends ate and drank at an Albany restaurant before the night continued with his ever loyal first wife Alice and then with his real love showgirl Kiki Roberts where at 1:00 a.m. they went to their room at the Kenmore hotel around 4:30 a.m.

 Diamond drunkenly returned and passed out on his bed at 67 Dove street around an hour later Bo Weinberg entered the room with another schz loyalist who held Diamond down as Bo voled three bullets into the whiskey soaked brain of Legs Diamond this time the clay pigeon of the underworld was dead and at last satisfaction and revenge for Dutch who had Avenged the death of his partner Joey noi upon his death Diamond had taken a total of 14 bullets in his life surviving all but the three put into his head this night but the violence wasn’t about to seize

now the successes of the 1920s faded and the Limitless prosperity and excitement of the early 1930s began to take hold of the Dutchman Schulz had inherited the whole business since no had passed and was now fabulously wealth in his late 20s the papers were now dubbing him the Beer Baron of the Bronx a name the narcissistic Schulz loved as long as the papers wrote highly of him he had a LoveHate relationship with the Press throughout his life they once dubbed him looking like Bening C with his face smashed in and that he looks like an

overdressed vagrant with his clothes never quite fit in his 5′ 7 in scrawny frame another time he declined an interview with the same report who once wrote that he had a weakness for blondes however he would often give interviews to the press in one interview defending his actions as a bootlegger and violent mobster he told a reporter I may do a lot of lousy things but I’ll never make a book off a woman or narcotics he was quite happy to give his books to the women however often frequenting poly Adler’s br in Manhattan and quite

possibly the place he acquired the garia soap bandage he used to Blind one time Bronx enemy Joe Rock despite his lack of self-awareness and hypocrisy the sky seemed the limit for the Dutchman however his Bronx boys were growing restless and Vincent Co who realized he was nothing more than a hired killer for Dutch demanded to be cutting on his business now that Joey noi was dead but Schulz only had and will only ever have one partner and absolutely rejects Cole’s advances with an eye am fist Cole was enraged at schulz’s DIS dismissive

rejection and took some of the merry men of the Bronx boys with him to start a rebel gang of their own Cole was a high-spirited and good-look gangster an athletic 5 foot 10 with curly hair a dimpled chin and a face that might have made the movies had he not chosen the gun declared allout war on the Dutchman almost overnight schulz’s beer trucks began to fall to hijackers and with this Schulz men began to die Vincent Cole was a coldblooded killer he had personally been chosen by Manhattan eventual Boss Of All Bosses lucky luano to assassinate

the current Ken norra Chief Salvatore Marzano to put it Frank that is some task and it just shows the reputation he had around the city Marzano got win that K or the mick as he was referred to was contracted to murder him when luchano found out Marzano was aware he sent his trusty Murder Inc to carry out the killing instead luchiano had picked an Irish Hitman over all the soldiers in his own Army which shows the kind of enemy shorts had just made Cole lacking significant business Acumen compensated this with an almost impulsive

fearlessness his initial Venture after leaving schulz’s side involved plotting the Abduction of a local radio and Nightclub personality intending to finance his new gang with Ransom money however the kidnapping plot unraveled leading to the arrest of around eight members of Cole’s gang the police seized the madmix Arsenal and several cars after this he was in desperate need of money Colin his associates hopped into a sedan and drove over to the club argano on Seventh Avenue there they kidnapped the club’s owner George big Frenchie

dong an associate of on the killer Madden the owner of Harlem’s Cotton Club and a real heavyweight of New York even someone Schultz wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of demon wasn’t just an associate of only madens he was a partner in a string of Manhattan rackets ranging all the way from booze to extortion to protection to boxing matches only Madden had power in Manhattan that rivaled the police force and here was the Mad Mick kidnapping his partner in Midtown Manhattan right on Madden’s Turf how Brazen can you get

around midnight after he kidnapped the MCH Carl called an arranged to meet up Madam paid $35,000 for Dean’s release and began plotting his revenge on July the 28th 1931 in the middle of a war that had already taken around 40 lives on both the col and Schult Side New York City witnessed one of its most notorious gang war killings ever instead of Lawless gunmen falling to the Wayside five innocent children were senselessly shot down in a botched murder attempt on Schultz associate Joey Rayo on this hot Summer’s evening as children played on

the sidewalk along Easter 7th Street and adults leaned out of open windows in the hope of catching a slight breeze an open touring car containing five men slowly made its way down the block as it passed the hmar social club the men spotted Joey Rayo lounging out front with one gunman blasting away with a shotgun and another with an automatic pistol gang Warfare reached an alltime low 5-year-old Michael venari was hit and died the following day his 7-year-old brother was wounded five times and a three-year-old sleeping in a stroller

was hit twice in the back two of other children who were five and 14 years of age received slight wounds but survived despite the angry public outcry including this broadcasted footage of Michael V’s mother uncontrollably mourning at his funeral police were hard pressed to find anyone in the neighborhood who would talk to them Rayo had spotted his assant and duck for cover when the shooting stopped he stood up and calmly walked away 5 days later an eyewitness to the shooting George Brett came forward claiming he’d been

standing across the street as the touring car drove by Brett identified Vincent Cole and Frank giodo a lesser known member of the Bronx boys as the two Shooters when Cole’s name was released to the newspapers as the main suspect in the shootings the Press dubbed him the baby killer which later transpired into Mad Dog call and gained national attention Vincent K who was born into a decent family in County killed a island before moving to New York as a child was now feared across the states as a nationwide man was on

for him called died his blond hair black and grew a mustache on October the 4th he was arrested at the Cornish Arms Hotel on 23rd Street near 8th Avenue in late December 1931 col and giodo were tried for the murder of Michael venali K was ay defended by Samuel lipitz one of the city’s high-profile defense attorneys leitz tore apart prosecution witness George Brett during cross examination he told the jury that Brett had fabricated the story in the hope of collecting the $30,000 reward being offered for any information that led to

the capture of The Killers liit claimed that Brett had acted in a similar capacity in another case where his testimony could not be substantiated by the end of the trial the jury found Brett to be absolutely unreliable it later came to light that Brett had a speciality of being an eyewitness to a few murder trials in St Louis and collecting the reward money he was committed to the psychopathic Ward at Bellevue Hospital the same hospital that Joey noi died at Mad Dog and giodo were acquitted and Dutch’s anxiety regarding

this mad dog who was out to walk the streets of Manhattan free once more started to Skyrock it there was no way to deal with K other than with brute force and violence he would not agree to a peace conference and as a newspaper at the time was quoted call caused more trouble for Schulz than the whole of the New York Police Department combined it may have been the aforementioned anxiety messing with the Dutch’s mind perhaps it was lack of sleep that the Mad Dog was causing him or maybe it was just sheer audacity however one day Dutch walked

into the 42nd Police Precinct in the Bronx and simply meandered into the police detective squad room and offered money to anyone who killed K just like they used to in the old west look I want the mick dead he said he’s driving me out of my mind I’ll give a house in Westchester County to any of you guys who knocks him off there were three detectives in the room at the time and the one who knew the beer baring of the Bronx the best Fred Shadel from his old neighborhood said Arthur do you know what the hell you’re saying you know

you’re in the morania station I know where I am I’ve been here before I just came to tell you I’ll pay good to any cop who kills the mick Dutch was escorted out by Shadel who thought Schulz must have been blind drunk to enter a police station and offer up a contract like that the Tit for Tat killing continued and all in all it’s estimated that around 40 lives were taken on each side however one day the Schulz Entourage got a member of the co gang that would rip the heart out of their operation on a Harlem Street

Corner Peter call the brother of madg was cut down in a wave of submachine gun fire aged just 24 Vincent took Peter’s passing very hard four Schulz men fell before blazing guns in the next few weeks as the Schulz C War reached its peak it was from that moment on that the Dutchman became scarce around town and stopped frequenting the club of Manhattan during this time of reclusiveness to avoid any potential bullets from the end of Cole’s gun Dutch refound his love of reading which started back when he was still AR of

flegenheimer in public school 12 he was reading Dickens American history and even Napoleon’s autobiography while Schulz was making his way through his Library there was that many trucks hijacked resulting in so many murders on both sides that the police namely Fred Shadel the same copper that arer had known for most of his life found himself doing free guard duty at the Dutchman’s beard drops which the Dutch and welcomed the police weren’t exactly going to charge his band of merry men with r running when they themselves still drank

and if it cut down on the murders that the schults Cold War was producing it was less pressure on them from all angles at the height of the violence perhaps the following single incident would illustrate best the No Limits nature of the war between the two factions on February the 1st 1932 a group of four gunmen entered a card game taking place in a four family frame dwelling on Commonwealth Avenue in the north Bronx without warning they un leashed a hail of gunshots catching everyone in the room off guard with no

opportunity for a Counterattack upon the police’s arrival py Del Greco affiliated with K and carrying a noteworthy police record lay lifeless on the floor Fiorio Bazil another associate of K met a similar fate and miss Emily torello also lost a life in the gunfire Lewis Bazil fiio’s brother sustained injuries along with another female guest remarkably two children playing in the living room and two infants peacefully rested in The Cribs emerged harmed from the chaotic scene the sh’s gunmen however were too eager as Cole didn’t arrive until 30

minutes after the shooting otherwise they would have had their man however Cole’s avoidance of gunfire would only last another eight days for several months rumors circulated that a hefty $50,000 Bounty hung over Mad Dog Cole’s head a call 25,000 from Dutch schz which was matched by only the killer Madam still enraged with Cole for kidnapping his business partner a few months earlier Cole was posted up at the Cornish Arms Hotel on 23rd Street with his now wife lty whom he had married shortly after being acquitted for the

murder of 5-year-old Michael vengar at around 12:30 a.m. Cole left his lodgings heading to the London chemist drug store across the street likely for a pre-arranged phone call or to make discret calls without attracting police attention carrying $101 and no weapons on him he entered one of the free phone booths at the back he allegedly called Onie Madden either to ask for money or to threaten to kidnap him if he didn’t pay things had been tough for the babyfaced Irishman he was nearing broke his crew was depleted and he was still

mourning his brother’s passing listening to this sub story Madden was able to keep call on the line long enough for a trio of shorts Killers to arrive in a limousine after 10 minutes of the Mad Dog wittering on with himself two of them stationed themselves outside the drug store while the third entered and Bo Weinberg waited behind the wheel surveying the five individuals inside two clerks a woman and two male customers he calmly announced all right everybody keep call now and you won’t get hurt with a Tommy Gun drawn from

under his coat the gunman positioned in self a few feet away from Cole’s booth and Unleashed a barrage of gunfire though an exact count of the bullets fired is unknown Vincent Cole’s body slumped forward out of the booth as the asant made a quick exit Cole sustained severe injuries with a slug shatter in the right side of his face breaking his nose and lodging in his brain two additional bullets struck his forehead one settled above his heart and he suffered seven wounds in the right arm and four bullet holes in the left the

machine gun wielding as salent left no room for doubt about Cole’s fate the gunman ran out and jumped into the limousine and Bo Weinberg sped off the ordeal for the Schulz men was not over yet two police detectives ironically assigned to tail call came running at the sound of gunfire one jumped on the running board of a taxi cab and ordered the driver to pursue the speeding getaway car with the detective firing from the window of the taxi they chased the gunman 27 blocks down 8th Avenue at 70 mph before the getaway car pulled

away the Schulz Cold War was over and once again Dutch Schulz could say a breath of relief he eventually started to frequent his favorite swanny Club again a normal service of bootlegging into the clubs of New York resumed relatively violence-free picking up Whispers from the circles of politicians and policemen he mixed with at the swany club the Dutchman was aware that prohibition was coming to an end the 18th Amendment of prohibition had been a complete failure and the White House knew this you can’t Outlaw something so

deeply embedded in American culture and if people want to drink people will drink all prohibition did was encourage organized crime to flourish and although alcohol consumption did decrease at the beginning it had actually increased more than before the 18th amendment was passed and so on the 5th of December 1933 the 21st amendment was passed and prohibition was scrapped it was finally legal to drink again and bars reopened across New York I say reopened there was still an estimated 50,000 speak EES across the city so I guess they just

stopped hiding what they were selling this was great news for the population who wanted to drink however for a successful Bootlegger like Dutch Schulz this was going to take away the vast majority of his income Schulz needed did a new income stream and one fell right onto his lap from the most unlikely of sources his attorney Dixie Davis who introduced him to the Harlem numbers racket Davis was an improbable figure to be a top commander of a New York racket he worked his way through Syracuse law school and was admitted to the bar in

1927 Davis was given a Clark ship and honored Law Firm but he soon went into business for himself soon he became known around the mob as the boy mouthpiece his work pleased clients who were all mobsters and gangsters in court he talked loudly and waved his arms putting on a good show he shouted in the courtroom but in the back rooms he whispered and his clients seemed to go free with increasing regularity crooked and corrupt through and through he was a tailor made lawyer for a man like Dutch Schulz and knew that by introducing

Schulz to the numbers racket he could selfishly benefit even more himself despite what chaos or Maniac like Schulz would do to anybody who didn’t comply during the 1920s and 30s as a massive influx of African-Americans participated in the Great Migration relocating from Southern into Northern and Midwest cities Harlem emerged as the epicenter of Black America fostering a vibrant cultural scene encompassing art music and literature within this flourishing Harlem Renaissance an illicit form of Lottery known as policy or numbers gain

prominence in this clandestine game participants selected three numbers between Z and 999 anticipating a match with numbers drawn daily from public sources such as the New York Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserves endof day credit balance while the success of the policy racket relied on a substantial Workforce managing slips and dispersing winnings the pivotal figure was the banker Who provided the financial backbone for the entire operation though Harlem had numerous Bankers one individual stood at the Pinnacle Madame Stephanie stclair also

known as the queen of numbers details about St Clair’s early life remain shrouded in mystery born in the French West Indies the specifics of a journey to New York the acquisition of initial funds to establish her bank and the circumstances surrounding her arrival are unclear during her Heyday St Clair was earning an impressive $200,000 annually the equivalent of around 3.

5 million today she managed a team of 40 to 50 Runners had 10 controllers and maintained several bodyguards residing in one of Harlem’s most prestigious buildings 409 Edgecomb this was a residence shared with civil rights Legends like web deboy and future Supreme Court Justice th Good Marshall and 409 Edgecomb was regarded as the most prestigious and coveted place to live in Harlem for African-American attorneys dancers designers gangsters musicians and of course our queen of numbers Madame St Clair portrayed fantastically here in hudlin by sicy

Tyson St Clair Diversified her wealth through real estate Investments and was renowned for her exotic and fashioned forward dresses vibrant turbin and luxurious Furs she left an indelible mark on the cultural landscape of Harlem during the prohibition era when money flowed as freely as the illegal liquor that fueled it the policy game collecting as little as a penny per bet wasn’t worth his time however his millions that he made from prohibition wouldn’t last forever with the amount of men he had in his crew and the amount of

people he’d paid off and unfortunately for Madame St Clair he wanted a slice of the numbers game operating essentially as independent Bankers policy in 1920s Harlem was regarded as a relatively harmless Vice numerous upstanding citizens participated in running numbers Banks policy operators like St Clair intentionally enlisted reputable individuals to work in their Banks believing that such individuals would take precautions to avoid a arrest teachers and unemployed wives of influential Community leaders individuals who would be deeply

embarrassed by an arrest were commonly employed in these policy Banks the policy had never seen men like the Dutchman before black policy operators were nais and criminals and violence was not inherent in their trade Schulz knew this but recognizing that more than sheer violence was necessary the Dutchman in his move to control the policy operators leverage political influence from Jimmy Hines the tamy hall Westside leader who was so corrupt he couldn’t lie straight in bed but with his influence he could have any

policemen that would sniff around the numbers racket relieved of their duties and protection payments to the police who were playball were facilitated by the Dutchman schulz’s lawyer Dixie Davis represented many of Harlem’s black policy operators and played a pivotal role introducing Schulz to Hines and the trio fueled by hines’s political protection the Dutchman’s Firepower and Dix’s ability to influence and control the policy operators made schulz’s newly organized policy combination of formidable money-making Force the Bronx

boys or what was left of them since the Cole Schulz War initiated their takeover by summoning Alex pompez a prosperous policy Banker who would later own the New York Cuban baseball team to a meeting at the Osasco Democratic Club at Tam Hall hangout on West 118th Street pomz was informed by George Weinberg and suly gers two new recruits of the Bronx boys that he needed to pay $600 per week for protection Joseph Eisen another heavyweight policy Banker received a similar demand see speaking counsel from his lawyer Dixie Davis is was advised

that resisting schulz’s forces would be futile acting as an intermediary Davis and is negotiated an agreement with Weinberg and his brother Bo settling on $500 a week for protection as part of the deal is requested protection from Josie Henry myo infringing on his territory Schulz promptly summoned myo to a meeting where he was instructed to pay $500 weekly for protection and stay out of is’s territory Myro having been on the receiving end of similar persu taxes that the Bronx Speak Easy owners who weren’t buying offering Joey’s beer

years earlier accepted the terms acknowledging the offered protection as necessary having secured control over pomz eison and Myro the three biggest policy Bankers after the queen of numbers schulz’s next Target was Stephanie St Clair however St Clair proved resilient resisting schulz’s advances and publicizing the Dutchman’s politically backed attempt to seize her business in a prominently blackowned paper called Amsterdam news where she wrote a weekly column St Clair and a ke enforcer Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson

staunchly resisted paying protection fees to Schultz even in the face of violence and intimidation in response to this Defiance St Clair adopted an offensive strategy by launching attacks on the storefront of businesses facilitating Dutch Schultz’s betting operations simultaneously she discreetly informed the police about schu’s activities leading to a raid on his residence this operation resulted in the arrest of over a dozen Schulz employees the Dutchman was annoyed unlike many others in Harlem St CL remained

steadfast in her refusal to submit to Dutch schulz’s dominance however Schulz had experiencing something St Clair didn’t all out gang war and the most violent prohibition criminal still walking was prepared to unleash hell to the tiger from Marseilles another nickname St Clair had amongst Harem folk the Dutchman began beating threatening and murdering her policy Bankers St Clair understanding that human life was more important than money something the Dutchmen didn’t grasp eventually succumbed to stop the war in Harlem and

Dutch eventually took over Schulz had now made sure that every policy slip submitted in Harlem was now under his control and his policy operation reaped enormous profits with odds of winning at 999 to1 yet the house only paid off at 600 to1 the estimated daily take was around $35,000 of which only 25% went to the winners after accounting for payoffs to the police and politicians for protection Schulz still maintained an impressive profit margin even more than he was making through the distribution of illegal booze the Harlem numbers

racket was a lot more lucrative than he could have ever imagined the Dutchman improved his earnings when he brought Otto bman into the fold known as abadaba because he persisted A Gifted mathematical mind and had the ability to figure out complex equations and algebraic expressions in the matter of seconds without the use of paper or pen he was also born into a Jewish Family in New York like Dutch abadaba was a successful accountant and as everyone was in New York aware of the fact that Schulz had taken over the numbers racket

Burman approached Schultz in 1932 with a $10,000 a week proposition the daily winning policy numbers are derived by the third digit in the amount paid out by The Bookies in par Mutual horse races each day to explain this better as it took me a while to understand it Parry Mutual is a type of betting used in horse racing where you’re still backing a horse to win the race but unlike fixed odds your money goes into a betting pool with everyone else who is putting on a Parry Mutual bet on that race and picking a horse to win the idea is that

if there’s six horses in the race and $100 staked on each horse th $600 in the pool and horse three wins at odds of 3 to1 you’d have 50 people sharing $600 at odds of3 to1 so $1,800 divided by 50 equals $36 each so they’d be in profit more than if they just put $2 on it 3 to1 at fixed odds which would have been $6 back anyway moving on from the maths there was seven races a day at the Coney Island RAC trck which is where it was universally agreed the numbers would have been taken from for example if the bookies payouts added

up to$ 25 86 from the first three races then went to $568 60 in the first five then after the seven races the total went up to $845 76 our winning three numbers would be 585 well all abadaba had to do was station himself at the Coney Island racetrack when the par Mutual totals were being counted and set himself up at a telephone just before the seven phrase he will call up Bo Weinberg the Bronx boy who counted the policy slips and tell him which two numbers emerged from the first five races five and eight in

the example we’re using here Weinberg would riffle through the slips from that day all collected and sorted out by late afternoon and tell abadaba which digit from 1 to 10 on the seven race totals would produce the most winning tickets something they wanted to avoid to increase maximum profits for example if Weinberg told abadaba that 583 and 585 would hurt the most this is where the maths Wiz would use his brain just as The Bookies windows were closing for the seventh race abadaba would go over the payoffs on the sixth race winners and

and then study the odds on all the horses in the seventh and putting a last minute bet on one of the horses that would alter the payout no matter which horse won this would make sure that the last number would not be a three or five it sounds very complicated and impossible and that’s probably why Schultz turned him down at first however after Burman went to the track with him and demonstrated his talent of how it would work Schultz agreed without hesitation once when asked about the success of burman’s efforts Bo Weinberg

replied pretty near every day was a winning day implicating this method shorts his spoils from the numbers racket went from 5 million annually to a staggering 14 million by the end of 1933 the equivalent of around $300 million a year today quite simply ridiculous money for the time forever unable to satiate his Preposterous greed this wasn’t enough for Schultz and soon after completing the rackets he carved out another money-making opportunity for himself involving Union racketeering in the restaurant industry in 1933 a key

figure in the Schulz organization Julius modal ski more widely known as Jules Martin established a small Diner disguising it as a greasy spoon to serve as the front for infiltrating Local 16 of the hotel and restaurant employees International Alliance this local union oversaw waiters in Manhattan north of 14th Street with the backing of Schulz Now using his tamy Hall connections and never trusty face and reputation Martin’s employees ran for Union offices stuffing the ballot boxes in order to obtain the positions of President and

secretary treasurer their efforts were so effective that they re received 38 more votes than the entire membership of the Union the next move was to take over local 302 another Union that oversaw waiters in Manhattan this time instead of supplying his own candidates Martin and another schs associate Sam CR simply advised the Union’s leadership to join them or else the final step was to establish the Metropolitan Restaurant and cafeteria Owners Association to sign up restaurant and cafeteria owners and collect protection money from them

Martin handled this task himself musling the owners into signing certificates of membership stating that they were doing so of their own free will Jack Dempsey the former boxing champion and owner of the well-known Dempsey’s restaurant then located across the street from Madison Square Gardens was even photographed signing the agreement unfortunately that photo has been lost to time but it just confirms how influential Martin could be no one realized that it was Schulz who was behind the scenes working through

Martin to build the illegal Enterprise restaurant owners were told that the waiters Union was demanding a doubling of the wages but this could be avoided if they joined and paid tribute to the association one small cafeteria operator said he was forced to pay a $250 Initiation fee and $3 annually in fees in addition he was told to pay $1,500 for association fees in order to avoid a threatened strike larger establishments were required to Shell out initiation fees from $5,000 to $25,000 in addition to substantial

Annual fees one owner who refused to pay tribute to the association was Hyman gross having already invested 100,000 into his new restaurant gross refused to give into the Schulz Mobsters one night a stink bomb was dropped down the restaurant’s chimney and gross was forced out of business losing his entire investment the stink bombs the gangsters Ed were made of valarian or butc acid once detonated they created an offensive odor that permeated through carpets draperies wood and even concrete and plumbing the acid would ruin all the

tables and fixtures causing replacement Furniture to be purchased and leaving the restaurant closed for months if not permanently this became another unbelievably lucrative racket for Schulz but all this money flowing into his accounts was not going unnoticed and it wasn’t a gun craze gangster who was going to be the next hurdle in Dutch’s life but a university man from Michigan who knew nothing of violence enter Thomas ejy Thomas E JY was born in aaso Michigan in 1902 he attended the University of Michigan and graduated in

1923 he then enrolled at Columbia University law school after graduation he joined a law firm where he met George madali a prominent attorney madali was so impressed with JW’s legal skills that when he was named United States Attorney for the southern district of New York he appointed the young jwy to the position of Chief assistant JY gained valuable experience in trial preparation he learned about the city’s underworld structure and the relationship between gangsters and politicians in early 1933 as Chief assistant United States

Attorney jwy took part in several income tax prosecution cases against policy racketeers including Henry Myro and Wilfred brunda here he received his first exposure to Dixie Davis who was both myo and brinda’s attorney as well as duches jwy knew that Myro and brunda were heavyweight policy Bankers they were little fish however compared to the amount of money everyone knew the Dutchman was bringing in each week JY and the United States attorney’s office began a tedious investigation into the bootlegging operations of both Schulz

and Irving Wexler better known as waxy Gordon another famous Bootlegger who again is a video for another day the case against Gordon went to trial in November 1933 with jwy personally handling the prosecution waxy Gordon was convicted in December and received a 10-year prison sentence and a $50,000 fine Schulz was indicted himself and a Federal grand jury in New York spearheaded by the evidence jwy presented to them in the court proved that the Beer Baron of the Bronx had neglected to file returns during 1929

1930 and 1931 on half a million of taxable income and J jued that he owed the country over $90,000 the equivalent of $2 million today slapping the Dutchman with income tax evasion and he was now wanted officially by the feds of course the monetary son was of no problem for the Dutchman he was raking it in with his policy and restaurant rackets not to mention still sat on a healthy nest egg from his room running days however he had followed the papers closely being an avid reader and needed no reminder that the same tax WAP had reduced Al Capone

from Underground King to a miserable existence on that Dreadful Rock just off the coast of San Francisco Bay people like to call alcatra Al Capone owned Chicago quite literally he was also more powerful and had more cash than Schulz and most other gangsters in New York combined it wasn’t about the money this was about people like Elliot NES The Incorruptible cop who brought Capone down or Thomas euy also Incorruptible getting one over on organized crime it came of no surprise that jwy hit him with a fine of $110,000 and he faced a possible 43

years in prison if he was to stand trial and lose but the Dutchman wasn’t going to stand trial at all at least not yet in the first place he was far too big the infinitely more complex and Troublesome policy operation was taking up much of his time and it was a racket he would soon need to squeeze every nickel and dime out of there was an election coming up and the Bronx boys had to cough up significantly to make sure Jimmy Hines could grease numerous Palms to see that the right kind of guy occupied the office of district attorney

of Manhattan an occupation which was currently vacant and one that JY would probably run for ultimately the Dutchman decided he didn’t have the time or interest to stand trial and went on the L I say went on the lamb for the next 22 months Dutch Schultz would be considered a fugitive mobster but he wouldn’t be held up in a safe house or have to die his hair and grow a mustache like Mad Dog call he wouldn’t even leave New York 50,000 of these wanted posters were printed and distributed Across America and apparently all 18,000 NYPD offers

were hunting for the Dutchman many found that hard to believe shorts could be seen at his beloved swanny Club most evenings or if you’d like a face-to-face meeting with him you could catch him conduct him business in his luxurious three- room apartment at 1212 Fifth Avenue fully kitted out with tapestry and artwork he would often times be found gazing into the picture postcard view of Central Park from his n9th floor $2,500 a year apartment equivalent to about 55,000 a year today perhaps you wanted to see Schulz in a more Hands-On

business environment not a problem head down to his wide open storefront headquarters of his policy racket at 351 Lennox Avenue in the very heart of Harlem AIT with over 50 employees he also took his girlfriend turned wife Francis out to the Embassy Club on East 57th Street before he’d spend all night at the swanny club the hunted man was also available in public in the daytime as well he’d spend most of his days at Poly Adler’s Hall house which was now located in the chatau Madrid on West 54th Street even though the sidewalk

outside was soaked in his former partner Joey Noy’s blood the Dutchman made it his Manhattan headquarters and installed a dummy floor below maintaining a lavish office complete with living quarters and a fortress equipped with enough weapons for a small army he wouldn’t stay confined to his bunker in hiding however he would often times sit in the kitchen of the bruffle and take part in his favorite pastime reading as Polly Adler recalls in her 1953 autobiography A House Is Not a Home she found her number one customer Dutch shorts in the kitchen

with his feet propped on the table next to the window reading the life of Al Capone obviously trying to get some tips from where he went wrong in his income tax evasion charge this is the building where Polly Adler stationed her broel the chatau Madrid it’s now a hotel but in 1933 it was split into two buildings 230 and 231 West 54th Street the three windows on the side were number 231 and the window furest right was the kitchen where Dutchman would be reading poly Adler mentions this small detail in a book released 20 years later because

it’s stuck this is meant to be a fugitive on the Lamb on the run from the lore and here he is in the heart of Manhattan with 50,000 wanted posters in circulation with one of the most well-known faces in America satting a window in it shows a lot about the power money and influence that the Dutchman had in New York that he could go unbothered like this Quite a feat given his humble beginning selling Subway transfers when he dropped out of public school 12 all of 1933 passed without law enforcement finding Schulz who was

operating freely right under their noses mainly because the mayor’s office was still in control of Tam Hall of which Jimmy Hines pulled the strings things were about to change New Yorkers elected reform candidate fiell LaGuardia mayor in 1934 the Little Flower as LaGuardia was known amongst New Yorkers was soon put in the squeeze on the city’s underworld on November the 1st 1934 LaGuardia received a telephone call from Henry morgant Jr Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Treasury through this conversation Morgan teamed LaGuardia

with FBI director Jay Edgar Hoover to put pressure on to finding Schulz Hoover made the Dutchman his Public Enemy Number One schulz’s first reaction was to send Dixie Davis and Bo Weinberg with $100,000 to Washington DC to negotiate a settlement Morgan T’s reply when the pair WS in his office was we don’t do business with criminals Morgan T was right they didn’t a few years later Al Capone a bigger spender than the tightfisted Dutch offered him $400,000 before his trial was due to start which was similarly declined

Schulz was in a predicament he was now Public Enemy Number One a post which hadn’t ended well for his predecessors the quick shooting FBI minions of Jay Edgar Hoover had cut down Bank Rubber and former Public Enemy number one John Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago a few months later their submachine guns put an end to Dillinger’s colleague home of Van Maita who took the position of Public Enemy Number One after Dillinger life on the lamb was about to come harder as there was no doubt the FBI would actually try

and find the elusive Dutchman unlike the NYPD who were too busy spending the payoffs they’d received from him over the last 22 months Schulz had two options turn himself in or end up in a pool of his own blood just like the bank robbers before him the Dutchman had no choice on November the 28th 1934 Schulz appeared before the United States commissioner in Albany New York I’m arur flegenheimer he said I’m under indictment in the southern district of New York I wish to surrender with that short statement 22 months as a fugitive

came to an end Bale was set at $50,000 and then doubled this would be the longest period of time Schulz spent Behind Bars since his teenage years Dixie Davis got the bail reduced to $75,000 but it took several weeks before the Dutchman was released while he was absorbed abbed in this government tax case and forced to remain in the Albany area Schulz needed money and wanted to dip into his restaurant racket spoils he called Jules Martin and ordered him to bring him $221,000 from the coffers of the association at once Bo Weinberg and

Dixie Davies accompanied Martin on the train ride the three men met Schultz at the harmony hotel in Coos New York Schultz grilled Martin about $70,000 that was missing from the restaurant association’s bank accounts Schulz suspected Martin of investing the money in a factory he owned in elcar in Indiana which rebuilt taxi caps with both men drinking heavily Schulz emphasized his point by punching Martin in the eye after which Martin admitted to having removed only $20,000 from the accounts Davies was not accustomed to

this part of the underworld witnessing the physical violence he could hardly have anticipated what happened next which Davis revealed years later Dutch Schulz was ugly he had been drinking and suddenly he had his gun out the Dutchman wore his pistol under his vest tucked inside his pants right against his belly one jerk at his vest and he had had it in his hand all in the same quick motion he swung it up stuck it in Jules Martin’s mouth and pulled the trigger it was as simple and undramatic as that just one quick motion of the hand the

Dutchman did that murder just as casually as if he was picking his teeth Schulz apologized to Davis for having to witness the brutal murder you must hate me for this dick sorry the Dutchman said as Bo Weinberg and the new recruits of the Bronx boys Lulu Rosen crun wrapped up Jules Martin’s body in a carpet a few weeks later Martin’s body was found in a snow drift however when Dixie read the report in the paper it noted that Martin’s body was found with 12 stab wounds in the chest Dixie later questioned Schulz about the knife wounds

in the report and Schulz replied yeah I cut his heart out F him this brutal murder clearly had no longlasting effects on the Dutchman as shortly after he was back trying to improve his Public Image just before the trial got underway the Dutchman held a press conference with Davis at his side he answered many questions about his life and business activities one of the questions was regarding his wardrobe the underworld Leader’s appearance was sometimes ridiculed in the press one reporter referred to him as an ill-dressed

vagrant and stated that Schulz had a special talent for looking like a perfect example of the unsuccessful man Schulz made no secret of the frugality that governed his wardrobe he said he never spent more than $35 or so for a suit or more than $2 for a shirt he told the assembled press in the Syracuse conference I think only qu’s wear silk shirts I never bought one in my life only a sucker will pay $15 or $20 for a silk shirt schulz’s frugality was also o apparent to Lucky luchano who later declared Schulz was one of the cheapest

guys I ever knew practically a miser here was a guy with a couple of million bucks and he dressed like a pig he used to brag that he never spent more than 35 bucks for a suit and it had to have two pairs of pants his big deal was buying a newspaper for two cents so that he could read all about himself before leaving the press conference Schulz received a set of rosary beads from one sitters and while another wished him goodlooking Yiddish having never showed any interest in religion up until this point and was

never taken to a synagogue by his parents Emer and Herman flegenheimer Schulz accepted the token gestures I guess I’m going to need all the look I can get he said so I ain’t passing anything up the tax trial began on April the 16th 1935 John H mckas a member of the team that successfully convicted Al Capone handled the prosecution many of the early Witnesses mck put on the stand were Bankers who were used to detail the Dutchman’s bootlegg and income the government had also forced 20 Witnesses who didn’t want to speak one witness

scheduled to testify during an afternoon session went for a morning walk kept on walking and never returned Bo Weinberg and several other Schulz Associates developed Amnesia run the stand or pleaded the Fifth Amendment aka the right to remain silent even while being threatened with contempt of court charges by federal judge Frederick H Bryant schulz’s defense lasted an entire three hours calling just three Witnesses the Dutchman’s defense was that he’d been given expert legal advice that he did not need to pay taxes on his illegal

income when this advice turned out to be false Schulz made a concerted effort to pay his debt only to be rebuffed by the government outside the courtroom Schulz explained to reporters I offered $100,000 when the government was brok and people were talking about Revolution and they turned me down cold you can see that at least I was willing to pay everybody knows that I’m being persecuted in this case I want to pay they’re taking it from everybody else but they wouldn’t take it from me I try to do my duty as a citizen on April the

27th the case went to the jury for a day and a half Schulz walked the Court’s corridors nervously chain smoking cigarettes perhaps it was nervousness but while Schulz waited he spent much of his time making statements to the Press on a variety of topics from his own life to Al Capone and alcatra he had become a media celebrity and was seemingly enjoying the publicity he was receiving despite all of the government’s evidence the jwy was hopelessly deadlocked after the first day the vote stood at 6 to6 the second day it was 7 to5 for

conviction the judge discharged them at 3:00 on the afternoon on April the 29th Schulz got away with this one but a second trial was scheduled from alone New York a tiny Community located 10 Mi south of the Canadian border in what Paul S called a social Rampage Schulz arrived in town a week ahead of the trial to show the town’s folk that he was a regular guy he picked up tabs in bars and restaurants attended local baseball games with the mayor and prominent Malone businessman as the trial got underway the prosecution’s

case was basically the same as last time The Reluctant Witnesses came once more and Bo Weinberg with his faulty memory was back again in an effort to make Schultz seem more like one of them the defense hired a local lawyer as lead attorney the trial which began in mid July went to the jury on August the 1st after a 9 to3 vote for acquit on the first ballot the jury came back on August the 2nd with a verdict of not guilty judge Bryant was Furious and he banged his gavl to quiet the joyous Outburst in the courtroom he then went

in on the jurus you have labored long and no doubt given careful consideration to this case before I discharge you I will have to say that your verdict is such that it shakes the confidence of Laur abiding people in integrity and truth it will be apparent wall who have followed the evidence in this case that you have reached a verdict based not on the evidence but on some other reason also disappointed at the trial’s outcome was May LaGuardia who told reporters he will not be a resident of New York City there is no place for Dutch Schulz here

to which Schulz replied to the Press tell lardier I will be home tomorrow in reality the acquit was a surprise to Schulz and his defense team not to mention his gang lampers in New York City however law enforcement was not given up on Dutch Schulz and his time was running out Schulz did not return to New York City not even to Queens where his wife Francis had given birth to a son instead he took up Residence at the Stratfield hotel in Bridgeport Connecticut and later at the Barham Hotel there Schulz was still considered

a fugitive because of an outstanding Federal warrant for him on tax counts that was separate from the ones that he was tried on in Syracuse and Malone in Connecticut Schultz and his bodyguard Lully Rosen CR found themselves The Darlings of the social set and were invited to several activities one socialite reported to a New York son reporter my dear Offa was the answer to a hostess’s prayer when it became known that he’d been invited to your party you had nothing to worry about everybody came and really he was Charming it was

hard to believe all those horrid stories while socializing in connectica Schulz held meetings with his lawyers and Jimmy Hines Schulz told Hines that due to his legal expenses The Tam Hall boss would have to take a 50% wage cut until the Dutchman’s problems were cleared up on September the 24th 1935 Schulz checked out of Bridgeport and headed to New Jersey in perf and boy Schulz was arrested again and booked on suspicion of being a fugitive Bale was eventually set at $50,000 and on October the 1st Schulz was released he went to Newark

New Jersey where he took a suite at the Robert Treat Hotel and began working on his public relations image again Schulz held court at the palace Chop House located around the corner from the hotel he made sure that Lulu Rosen crun and another new Bronx boy recruit Abe landal were present to keep undesirables away the following is a sample of comment Schulz made to one reporter who interviewed him for the Newark Star Ledger what about the Public Enemy Number One label I never did anything to deserve that reputation schul said

unless it was to supply good beer to people who wanted it and a lot of them did what about the future the reporter asks I want to settle down and be a plain Citizen and be given a chance to earn a living I want to be playing half of flegenheimer and forget there ever was a Dutch Schulz that bird has had too much trouble but there was no forgetting there was a Dutch Schulz due to his previous acquittals JY aimed to build a more substantial case against him expanding the charges to include his policy Empire however before jwy could

act Federal authorities indicted Schultz on October the 10th 1935 to avoid Double Jeopardy felony counts for tax evasion were dropped and Schultz faced 11 misdemeanor charges of failing to file tax returns the individual most concerned about schulz’s acquittal was Bo Weinberg as schulz’s legal troubles drained his financial Ventures Weinberg feared the potential collapse of the Schulz Empire seeking advice Weinberg approached longi zilman a prominent New Jersey mob boss who arranged a meeting with luchano during the meeting luchano

claim Weinberg offered to close all of schulz’s interests and hand over the Empire to luchano zilman and their allies who are already making moves in that direction in exchange Weinberg wanted to retain oversight of the operations and collect 15% of the profits luchano feeling uneasy about the proposal convened a meeting at his Waldorf Towers Apartment attended by zilman Joe Adonis Frank Castello my alansky Lewis lepy Tommy lucazi and veto geneves all the co and norra heavyweights luchano explained weinberg’s deal expressing discomfort

with the aidea of dismantling schulz’s territory before he was even convicted they discussed the responsibility for dividing schulz’s Empire and in lano’s division he assigned policy in gambling to Castello and Lansky liquor to Adonis restaurant rackets to lepy and liuy and other enforcement operations and Wilman received the New Jersey operations after schulz’s acquittal he realized changes had occurred and sought a meeting with luchiano during the meeting Schulz surprised luchiano by expressing excitement and discussing his interest

in Catholicism Schulz claimed that studying Catholicism ISM had helped him during his tough times and contributed to his acquittal despite these religious Revelations Schulz eventually discovered who had betrayed him in New Jersey schulz’s men staked out zman’s estate allegedly spotting Weinberg at zman’s home on September the 9th Schulz notified of weinberg’s presence confronted him as he left the fact that the Dutchman had now seen with his own eyes that one of the most loyal members of the Bronx boys had betrayed him was

not good news for Bo Weinberg and later that day Lulu Rosen crun kidnapped Bo as he left the Manhattan nightclub a kidnapp that was made easier as he had been on the whiskey since the altercation with Schultz they took him out onto the East River in a speedboat the Dutchman had kept aside during his run running days encased his feet in concrete and dropped him still alive into the river Schulz apparently used this method a few times to dispose of his enemies and he used to watch the bubbles break the surface of the water

and smile when they stopped he broke the news of his brother also a schz loyalist George Weinberg by calling him and explaining we had to put a kimono on B A cryptic reference the crew used to use regular to explain that they concreted his feet and chucked him into the river a psychopath through and through only Amplified by the anxiety that Thomas JY was causing him Schulz had now taken out two of his highest ranking lieutenants without batting an eyelid and he was starting to unravel this was the Beginning of the End by the second week

of October 1935 the federal government had indicted Schulz and he knew that jwy was working on a case involving his policy Empire as Schulz plotted a strategy luchano claimed to receive a visit from Albert Anastasia also Al known as the madh hatter the Lord High executioner of Murder Inc Anastasia informed luchiano that Schultz had asked him to stake out J’s fifth apartment to assess the difficulty of eliminating the special prosecutor luchano later revealed that the plot to assassinate Thomas jwy was considered strongly

Albert Anastasia had personally conducted the research himself this was an assassination that would cause so much heat assassinating the special prosecutor of New York that Albert Anastasia didn’t trust anyone apart from his own right hand keeping a close eye on Jew’s whereabouts Anastasia dressed in black and pushed a PRM pretending to be a father on his morning routine however it was duy he was really there to study he deduced that J’s morning ritual involved leaving home with two bodyguards entering a nearby drugstore

and making a phone call from a phone booth Anastasia thought he could carry out the hit at that point the plan included a gunman with a silencer waiting in the drugstore until jwy entered the booth after which the Assassin would kill the prosecutor and the shopkeeper luchano once again held a meeting with the commission and presented the information poent plan that Anastasia had compiled Schulz was also at the meeting at the Waldorf Towers in luchiano Suite the consensus of the Mafia bosses sat around the table

which was a mirror image of the ones at the Atlantic City conference a few years prior and they all agreed that wacking the special prosecutor of New York would bring far too much heat onto organized crime and it would be best to avoid it killing each other was fine as Bugsy seagull said who was also sat around the table but killing government officials could potentially put an end to everything they’d worked hard for as the newly formed FBI were not messing around as as everyone in America knew and they would surely turn their attention to

Dutch and eventually to the rest of the underworld if JY was killed Schulz pleaded with the predominantly Italian based panel but they didn’t vote in his favor and unanimously voted not to whack jwy the Dutchman was incensed in a livid rant insulting numerous members of the commission including luchano and throwing racial slurs to the Italian members of the commission you won’t do it then I’ll whack JY myself he told his fellow mobsters and he’ll be dead within 48 Hours he confidently offered up this Last Detail before flipping a chair over

and storming out of the meeting he then turned his collar up pulled his Fedora down and crossed Lexington Avenue to where Lulu Rosen crun was waiting for him in a Ford Sedan the Dutchman’s vehicle of choice still exiled from New York and with new mayor LaGuardia imposing a shoot on site policy to the NYPD they headed back to Neck New Jersey into the Robert Treat Hotel where schz had set up camp the room he had left in a characteristic Furious Outburst at the Waldorf with the heavy weights of the American Mafia didn’t need to discuss

anything Just One Look from Lucky luchiano at Albert Anastasia gave the order to call the midnight rose candy store their headquarters in Brownsville and let Murder Inc know that they had some work over the next few days the beay baron of the Bronx had signed his own death warrant at 6:00 on an unusually warm and pleasant evening the Dutchman the exclusive owner of New York’s most extensive single policy combination generating $20 million annually entered the palace Chop House and Tavern on East Park Street in newk

New Jersey accompanied by his two bodyguards Lulu Ros and Tramps and ab landow the Dutchman swiftly made his way down the 60ft bar to the round table in the back room not a single Boo or table was occupied the bartender Frank Frederick promptly served their drinks as a trio settled in shedding their top coats and hats King Glo the chef initiated preparations for steaks and french fries well aware of the customary routine upon the schz Trio’s arrival as the evening progressed additional patrons began to trickle into the palace

Michael Marx a minor associate of the mob claimed to have journeyed from the Bronx Grand conquers to meet Lulu Rosen CR for some walking around money later Marx returned with Francis flegenheimer also known as Francis Maxwell the Dutchman’s wife who arrived from her apartment in Jackson Heights Queens Francis once a hat check girl at the Mason Royale now elegantly dressed in a brown velvet suit and a silver fox neck piece gifted by shorts spent nearly an hour with him interrupted briefly by a visitor meanwhile out front the

bartender that night Jack fredman tended to his housekeeping duties shuffling around to keep him occupied despite the tavern’s prosperous past as a thriving Speak Easy the present atmosphere was desolate fredman reminiscing about better times adjusted liquor bottles and checked the register before heading to the back for a cup of coffee while enjoying his coffee fredman glanced out the window onto Park Street when suddenly a heavy set man abruptly entered the barro don’t move lay down he ordered he pulled his top coat to

reaffirm the hiding of his face and placed his other hand on his left shoulder and removed his pistol from its holster the heavy set man who had curly black hair and piercing brown eyes eyes packed 185 lb of muscle on a wide 5′ 7 in frame he was in his early 30s and goodlooking in a tough kind of way this was Murder Inc gunman Charles the bug Workman he was not alone right behind him there was no way for fredman to miss this dark and Medicine presence came a slightly taller man obviously older who kept his Overcoat drawn around him but

not buttoned Emanuel meny Weiss also an employee of murder in this was a pair of skilled and short Journeymen in a trade which had attracted ever increasing recruits was going back to the bootleg Warfare of the 20s the gunmen didn’t need any directions from the terrified bartender they headed straight for the dining room for they had come to kill the Dutchman once a packaged thief and burglar then a helper on a beer truck then a partner in a two- bit Speak Easy in the Bronx then the bear Baron of the Bronx then Overlord of the Harlem policy

racket then Public Enemy Number One on the private list and Jay Edgar Hoover’s FBI office and now at the tender age of 33 evidently Public Enemy Number One on an even more for itable list the executioners must have suffered a flickering moment of dismay when they stepped through that 10-ft passageway into the dining room of the palace Chop House their information was that the man they wanted would be in the chair facing them a perfect Target under the bright orange tinted light in that corner he had been there every night for at least

three weeks conducting all his business there seeing Francis flegenheimer there even entertain and select newspaper men there he hadn’t made that much of an effort quite obviously to keep his temporary Command Post in newer all that secret but the Dutch tman wasn’t at the table it was no time to start asking polite questions of course the gunman in front opened fire even though their main target was missing he turned a 38 caliber pistol on the trio in the corner firing across the room with a marksman’s accuracy whilst his huskier a

Confederate swept the table with the sword off shotgun he had brought in under his coat this part of the unequal shootout was over within seconds even as he whipped out his 45 cult to return the invader’s fire seven slugs ripped into Lulu Rosen crun spraying his strong and compact 5′ 10 in frame from his chest and his abdomen down to his right foot the 36-year-old hoodland must have had his back to the doorway because one bullet went through his right wrist and two ofs landed in his right elbow and just above it all from the rear Otto

abaaba Burman the oldest of the trio and the one least suited for this kind of adversity because he was dragging around 220b on a stubby little body was hit six times all the wounds body neck wrist elbow and shoulder were on the left side so abuaba who was not armed had to be in the chair in front of the window window he tumbled to the tile flooor in a pool of blood and lay there moaning AB BL four years older than the taller Rosen crun but in reasonably good trim at 18 180 must have been facing abuaba the bullet which would do the most damage

tore through his left shoulder from the back another one went through the upper left arm of the most dangerous of the shorts Gunners and a third one tore a gaping hole through his right wrist while he was getting his four five into action there were remarkably few wasted shots in that room two Strays smashed the mirror four or five other bullets lodged in the green walls but they did not have to be Strays because five slugs went clear through Rosen cr’s body four went through abadaba and all three went through landal the Dutchman of course

was on the premises and he was not to be spared he had put on his light top coat and gray Fedora and stepped into the men’s bathroom just minutes earlier as the duo of Assassins inspected the wounded Mobsters around the table and realized Dutch wasn’t amongst them they then took it upon themselves to go into the men’s where they encountered Dutch relieving himself into a urino Schulz was hit with a rusty steel jacketed four five slug that crashed into his husky body just below the chest on his left hand side and tore through the abdominal

wall into the large intestine gold bladder and liver before lodging on the floor near the arinal he had been using when the door opened although his asent talked of having fired only one shot a second bullet also missed and smashed into the wall over the second urinal shorts just happened to go the other way minutes earlier on the October morning in 1928 when his boy old chum and bootlegging partner joery noi was shot on the spot outside the shatow Madrid never even heard a shot fired in the 2-year war with Mad Dog call a war that

turned the Bronx and Manhattan into shooting galleries until a Tommy Gun cook call into pieces in the famous drugstore ambush of 1932 Schulz suffered nothing worse than a superficial shoulder wound in early 1931 when he ran into another business rival Chen Sherman in Manhattan’s Club Abbey and the guns went off Schulz ran that time not this time this time he could neither run nor fight the chances are that he didn’t even know what had hit him he just clutched his right side the great hurt registering in his wide brown eyes and

steep forward out of the toilet bman collapsed immediately after he was shot landow’s arteries were severed by a bullet passing through his neck and Rosen grun was hit repeatedly at Point Blank Range despite their injuries both gangsters Rose to their feet returned fire and drove the assassins out of the restaurant wise jumped into the getaway car and ordered the driver to abandon Workman landal Chase Workman out of the bar and emptied his pistol at him but missed after workman had fled on foot landal collapsed onto a nearby trash

Camp Witnesses in the palace chop house that night say schul staggered out of the bathroom clutching his side and sat at his table he called out for anyone who could hear him to get him an ambulance Rosen crun Rose to his feet and demanded that Jack fredman who had hidden during the shootout give him some change Rosen crun called for an ambulance before he lost Consciousness when the first ambulance arrived Medics determined low and Rosen CR were the most seriously wounded and needed to be taken immediately to Newark city

Hospital the policeman on the scene waiting with shorts decided to seize the opportunity Unity you’re Dutch Schulz aren’t you the FED said yes came the weak answer your real name’s AR for flegenheimer isn’t it yes you’re shot aren’t you yes and it’s damn painful I think they got me in the liver no the police officer said the wound’s high you got it through the chest well get me off to a hospital Dutch said the ambulance is on its way who shot you the answer came I don’t know who shot me you’ve got a serious wound why don’t you tell us

who did it I don’t know schz replied I got bad cramps do something the policeman turned to Jack fredman and asked him for Brandy with his right hand holding a towel to his wound Schulz took the glass in his left hand and down the drink thanks he said to the cop that feels good when a second ambulance arrived from new Yark City Hospital Schulz gave an intern in the ambulance $3,000 in cash before he thought he was dying and said that it was not going to do him any good where he was going after surgery when it looked like Schultz

might live the intern was so worried that Schultz were come back for his cash that he handed in the money Schultz then asked for a priest he was Jewish however never religious and he believed Jesus helped him to avoid that last indictment so promised to conert to Catholicism landow and Rosen crun who were already at the hospital refused to say anything to the police until Schulz had given them permission after he had arrived in the second ambulance even then they provided the police with only minimal information Schulz was moved into his

own Ward upstairs a ward without a window the police figured by now that the word would have got back to New York that the Dutchman was still alive and wanted to take all precautions that they could to keep him talking get the hell away from me and get me an ice cream soda Dutch sheltz when the police again tried to question him the ice cream soda being such a strange request that is at this moment that it is thought Dutch begins to enter a Delirious State caused by perentis from the rusty bullet which was intentionally loaded into the

Chamber of Charles workman’s gun just in case Schulz didn’t die at the scene on a bench in the corridor a lonely Death Watch gathered including his mother Emma his sister Helen and her husband Henry father mckany the priest Schultz had sent for stayed with the family for much of the time Emma had heard about the shooting on the radio in her Bronx apartment not long after it happened and in the morning she had a call about it from a girl she had never met Arthur’s wife Francis flegenheimer Arthur never told his mother about Francis was it

because she was a Catholic was it because she was only 18 was it because he had another wife somewhere these questions would never be answered surely not by the short side of the family the Aging Emma flegenheimer indeed professed to know as little about her son’s flashy career as the Affairs of his heart under gentle questioning from the police she insisted that she’d never been aware of her son’s Eminence in the Underworld despite him being in the newspaper most days Arthur never told me anything about his business she said I don’t know why

anybody would want to shoot him she said she had seen him a few weeks prior she didn’t say where and she said that he seemed very happy then during this Hospital stay Francis flegenheimer was occupied most of the time because the police thought she fit the description of the mystery woman now very large in the headlines who had visited Schultz in the palace a couple of hours before the shootings the theory at first was that this woman may had led the firing squad to the scene this was quickly discounted once the authorities had Francis in

custody she confirmed she’d been with r for a few hours earlier but he had given her money to go to the cinema for a few hours whilst he handled some business at 2:20 a.m. Otto Burman the oldest and least physically fit of the four men was the first to die Abe landal died of blood loss at 6:00 a.m.

 when Rosen crun was taken into surgery the surgeons were so bemused that Rosen CR was still alive despite his blood loss and ballistic trauma that they were unsure of how to treat him he eventually died from his injuries 29 hours after the shooting but Schulz was hanging on Dutch went into surgery and the rusty slug took 90 minutes to remove from his body but the operation did nothing to help with the perentis and the delusion that the Dutchman was now succumbing to he was drifting in and out of Consciousness mustering a smile and asking the doctor

for another bon bon whenever he wanted some morphine and remained this way until 2: p.m. the next day 14 hours after Mendy Weiss and the bug had entered the palace Chop House the Dutchman asked father mckany to baptize him and give him the last rights he knew his time was up while Schulz was receiving the last rights another kind of farewell drawn from the New Testament was being delivered to the hospital’s reception desk by a Western Union Messenger as ye sow so shall ye reap said the wi it was signed Madame queen

of policy and it had come of course from Harlem’s Madame Stephanie stclair the queen of numbers who a few years earlier Dutch had bullied out of Harlem and out of the numbers game she got her just desserts in typical Dutch fashion when all looked like he was about to pass to the other side he muttered the following words Journey’s End this is my death let them come I’m not afraid of anybody I won’t run they’re just a bunch of fakers anyway the perentis had really taken its course now and he was completely Delirious not knowing where he was or

who he was for the most part the doctors were startled he was even alive let alone talking the police again thought they could seize their opportunity to ask him questions and sent for a stenography they had in the waiting room downstairs who jotted down every word these have become known as the last words of Dutch Schultz which you might have heard of they have been turned into a play studied in universities converted to poetry and analyzed by treasure Hunters far and wide from this little Hospital in Newark for hidden meanings

they are a strange stream of Consciousness babbles spoken in his hospital bed to police officers trying to piece together the puzzle of the palace Chop House and they are frankly too long to recite here but I will leave a link to my website and a post I have done analyzing his last words in the description for your perusal and highlight a few of the more bizarre and perhaps potential hidden meanings now certain extracts like oo dog biscuit and French Canadian bean soup are clearly nonsense in the ramblings of a dying man

with a fever of about 106° however phrases such as a boy has never weps or dashed a thousand kin or mother is the best bet and don’t let Satan draw you too fast a glimpses of the poetic side of his last words perhaps influenced by the characteristic that Schulz was a bookworm at heart if had one however I’m more interested in the phrases that explain some of the more elusive mobster soaked corners of his life for example George don’t make no bull moves was one of the many phrases he spurted out on his deathbed in 1935 and I and Paul S

the writer of kill the Dutchman believe this is related to Joe Weinberg brother of Bo who Dutch murdered two months before I think he’s reciting something that was weighing heavy on his mind the killing of Bo and potentially the subsequent reaction from George the brothers had been around gang and organized crime since they were able to walk however fairly new recruits to schulz’s gang only joining when the policy began to take off a few years prior we know that Dutch informed George of the murder of his brother in a

nonchalant quote of we had to put a kimono on Bo an underworld code that he had encased his feet in cement and tossed him in the East River I think on the same phone call Dutch wary of retaliation from George told him not to make any bull moves and call off if indeed Dutch did say this to George it worked as he never did retaliate in fact in the case of George Weinberg after the death of Bo and the shooting at the palace Chop House he was picked up by the police spearheaded by jwy and decided to become a government informant

testifying against his former Associates until in 1939 whilst under police protection and safe housing white Plaines he grabbed a gun from the police and blew his own brains out perhaps that life left a lasting remark or perhaps he feared the Mobsters still walking who he could connect to crimes would come after him anyway the next name the Dutchman blurts out is John more specifically John did you buy the hotel you promis me a million please there was only one John in schulz’s Inner Circle that would have that kind of money the former Chicago

outfit boss Johnny Torio Toro had moved to New York and let Al Capone inherit the outfit 10 years earlier after haime Weiss had ambushed him and left him for dead I cover this more thoroughly in an earlier documentary I did on haime Weiss which I will also leave in the description if you are interested Johnny and the Dutchman put a couple of million dollars together to buy a Manhattan hotel which was later discovered from a letter in Dutch’s artifacts that the deal had fallen through the hotel which was never named must have been summer

fair as a few million in 1935 is an astronomical amount today and clearly the falling through of the hotel was playing on his mind as well perhaps the Dutchman was trying to use his ill-gotten gains from prohibition and his rackets to take a step into legitimate business amongst the heat from Dewey the final thing I want to highlight from his last words is towards the end when Schulz is taken his last few breaths on the planet a policeman asks him again who shot him to which schz finally offers up some information

me the boss himself shot me why honestly I don’t know the commission had recently transformed into the Ken ostra or our thing in Italian this had United the five families of New York under the Coen ostra and luano whose idea it was had recently appointed himself the Boss Of All Bosses Dutch was aware of this as he found himself more and more pushed out of the commission which was predominantly Italian and they preferred not to shower in press conferences avoid Limelight and most importantly the newspapers they also preferred to deal

with matters peacefully where possible and a hot headed lime like crazy press conference holding and front page newspaper frequenting German Jewish Miser like Schulz didn’t belong perhaps another contributing factor to why they decided to whack him I think here he was referring to the fact that luchano had ordered the hit I think Schulz knew in that car Journey back to nework after storming out the waldor for stor that he had signed his own death warrant and no one else would have the nerve to come after the one time Beer Baron of the

Bronx more rambling continued and his last words to the police officers who were still trying to squeeze out incriminating information was let them leave me alone the closing line came on the stroke of 6:00 p.m. then the Dutchman fell into a deep coma the stenographer was withdrawn and finally the police themselves left the overcrowded little room at 8:20 p.m.

sensing that the end was near Dr Snavely the head doctor on shift that night gave the word to let Francis flegenheimer come in and say her farewell she went to the bed bent over and whispered again Arthur this is Francis there was no response and she left subbing about 15 minutes later do Snavely was checking the pupils of schulz’s eyes and putting his stethoscope to his chest then the doctor looked up to his colleagues and said it’s all over the Dutchman had succumbed he had cheated the enemy out of nearly a whole day after the Slugs

were first pumped into his body but I think that Karma had caught up with Dutch shorts or off of flegenheimer as we used to refer to him as he lived a life of violence incomprehensible to most people and as they say if you live by the gun you die by the gun the death certificate put it as 8:35 p.m. then someone threw the sheet up over the Dutchman’s head and Dr Snavely went out into an adjoining room where the nexs of kin now waited he went directly to the bent little woman in there as she arose Emma flegenheimer your son has died as

the Dutchman’s mother collapsed into the arms of her daughter revived in a few moment she was taken to the bedside where she prayed in silence for 15 minutes then she was led downstairs where she collapsed again outside the hospital even as Helen the Dutchman’s sister was pleading with a swarm of reporters for God’s sakes Helen said can’t you stop tester in us on October the 28th the staff of Daniel F coflin and brothers a funeral home managed to discreetly move schulz’s coffin from The Parlor to a hearse at 4:30 a.m. they

knew that this coffin was going to attract a Crowd by 6:00 a.m. there was over a thousand people outside their funeral home and another 2,000 were on the balconies of the Roosevelt Hospital before they were informed that the body of the Dutchman was already on the way to the cemetery and that they were too late between 4:30 and 10:00 a.m.

 they drove through the city stopping for coffee breaks along the way at 10:00 a.m. they escorted the Hearst to the gate of Heaven’s Cemetery for burial there father mcer performed a 15minute service as normal for converted Catholics and Emma flegenheimer who was bent in uncontrollable sorrow had a Jewish prayer Shaw draped over the coffin the flegenheimer wanted to keep it small and private with only Emma Helen and her husband Henry present thus the violent life of Arthur flegenheimer AKA Dutch Schulz who was born into

poverty to two German immigrants murdered intimidated and bribed his way up to the top of the New York underworld before he was taken out by his peers was over he was 34 when he died but managed to cram so much into those short years that he still talked about today and that is mainly due to the aftermath after his death schulz’s rackets were inherited by the mafia another motive for taking him out and divided between the five families the restaurant racket eventually seized in the 40s due to less corruption in the police and more

enforced laws the numbers game or policy racket did sit with the mafia or the national crime syndicate as Lui luchiano branded it for a while but eventually it was given back to the bankers of Harlem and is still Loosely operated today the commission went on running the Underworld for various years until dewy finally pinned luchano down just as Dutch had foreseen and warned before storming out of the Waldorf JY investigated lucky for a few years just as he had with Dutch and eventually tried and convicted him for running a

prostitution racket eventually sentencing him to 30 to 50 years in prison where he continued running the crime family his trusty right-hand man May alansky who was also dubbed the accountant of the mob struck a deal during World War II with the Navy who were concerned with German and Italian agents entering the US knowing that the mafia controlled the Waterfront luchiano provided assistance to the government through World War II and was deported to Italy in 1946 and died a Freeman in 1962 on July the 14th 1937 two years after

the Dutchman’s death a grand jury issued a dozen indictments related to the policy racket leading the list was Dixie Davis the former attorney for Schultz who had control of the Harlem numbers operations before he introduced the Dutchman into the frame despite their extensive involvement and illegal activities Thomas jwy was open to negotiations with Davis to pursue the conviction of corrupt tammony Hall leader Jimmy Hines Davis agreed to a plea bargain for a reduced sentence in exchange for testifying against Hines on

May the 25th 1938 Jimmy Hines was arrested for his involvement in the numbers operation his trial commenced on August the 15th 1938 with Davis as a key Witness however in September the trial ended in a mistrial to a comment made by jewy about hines’s past involvement in a poultry record in 1939 Hines faced a second trial and in February he was found guilty on 13 counts and senten to 4 to8 years in prison he entered Sing Sing prison on October the 14th 1940 and was released in August 1944 before passing away in 1957 Dixie Davis

received a one-year prison sentence for his cooperation and relocated to California after his release in a tragic turn of events on December the 31st 1969 Davis suffered a fatal heart attack following an armed robbery in his Belair home Francis flegenheimer schulz’s companion Who Bore him two children moved away from New York to raise her family away from public scrutiny ais’s testimony a major figure in Murder Inc led to the trial of Charles the bug Workman for schulz’s murder Workman changed his plea to no contest 8 days

into the trial and was sentenced to life in prison eventually being released in 1964 Emanuel meny Weiss met a grim a fate being found guilty of murder alongside lepy Balter and LS Capone despite appeals to Governor JY they were executed in sing sing’s electorate chair on March the 4th 1944 JY was elected district attorney of New York County in 1937 served three terms as governor of New York starting in 1943 and ran for president twice but was unsuccessful passing away on March the 16th 1971 in Bal Harbor Florida at the age of 69 his

son later explained that he even up until the day he died he would never sit next to a window not even at home he would always have to sit with his back to the wall when he found out later how close he was to being assassinated by Albert Anastasia he was really Shook Up You could argue that the Dutchman became more famous after his death even though he was quite famous during his life as he was on the front pages of the papers most weeks in New York however it scarce that Mobsters from prohibition are known

widely today or even spoke about regularly schz was not only an anomaly as not the stereotypical gangster but also an anomaly that he is still spoken about today Dixie CBS show called secrets of the Dead where they have an episode on professional treasure Hunters who were trying to hunt Dutch’s treasure a legacy that is still relevant today that was became the most famous mobster in America at the time and is still on the lips of many today thanks for watching if you’d like to see me recreating Dutch’s last meal of steak

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