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November 2017 Brick from the Palace Chop House, Dutch Schultz Murder Case
Bootleggers, mobsters, and criminals were a signature staple of the 1920s and 30s. One of them was a notorious mobster known as Dutch Schultz. Born Arthur Flegenheimer in the Bronx, New York, he turned to burglary and bootlegging—and later, murder—after his father abandoned his family. The first time he was arrested for burglary, he spent time in prison on Blackwell’s Island, in New York City’s East River. He proved to be too much for prison staff to handle and was transferred to a work farm from which he escaped; he was eventually re-captured and his sentence extended. When he returned to the streets, his old associates dubbed him Dutch Schultz—the name of a deceased strong-arm notorious for dirty fighting tactics. The Prohibition era proved lucrative for gangsters and gave rise to the mafia families that dominated New York City for years. Schultz entered the ring, determined to make a name for himself. He created an enterprise, forming his own gang with a friend and fellow criminal, Joey Noe. Their business grew as they sold beer all over the Bronx, intimidating rival saloons into buying from them. For Schultz, no tactics were off limit as he and Noe tried to “persuade” people to
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