Dutch Schultz, byname of Arthur Flegenheimer (6 August1902 - 24 October1935), was a New York City-area gangster of the 1920s and 30s. Born in the Bronx, he made his fortune in bootlegging illegal alcohol and the numbers racket in Harlem.
Schultz was chased out of New York by Thomas E. Dewey to Newark, New Jersey in the early 1930s. Schultz wanted to have Dewey assassinated, but other gangsters, such as Lucky Luciano, worried about the public reaction that a murder of this sort would produce. Schultz was killed by members of Albert Anastasia's gang, on Luciano's orders, in the Palace Bar in Newark.
His last words were a strange stream of consciousness babble. They were taken down by a police stenographer, and have been used by several Beat writers, most notably William S. Burroughs.
Schultz was born Jewish, but converted to Catholicism shortly before his death. He was therefore interred in the Catholic Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven in Hawthorne, New York.
Schultz's life has been the basis of numerous novels and films, most of which have taken substantial dramatic license with the facts.
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