German-American Mobsters - Dutch Schultz (Paperback)

Chapters: Dutch Schultz. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dutch Schultz (Born Arthur Flegenheimer), (August 6, 1902 October 23, 1935) was a New York City-area Jewish-American gangster of the 1920s and 1930s who made his fortune in organized crime-related activities such as bootlegging alcohol and the numbers racket. Arthur Flegenheimer was born to German Jewish immigrants Emma and Herman Flegenheimer. When he was 14 years old his father abandoned the family. The event traumatized Schultz; throughout his life he would deny that his father had left the family, instead defending the elder Flegenheimer as a respectable man and ideal father who died of disease. As a result of his father's departure, Schultz left school to find work and support himself and his mother. He ended up apprenticing to low-level mobsters at a neighborhood night club. Schultz robbed craps games before graduating to burglary. Schultz was eventually caught breaking into an apartment, arrested, and sent to prison on Blackwell's Island (now known as Roosevelt Island). However, the prison staff soon found the young inmate to be unmanageable and arranged his transfer to the Westhampton Farms work farm. Schultz escaped from the farm but was soon recaptured and given an additional two months on his sentence. After Schultz's release from the work farm, his old associates dubbed him "Dutch" Schultz in honor of a deceased strong-arm thug who was notorious for dirty fighting at the turn of the century. With the enactment of Prohibition, Schultz, along with other organized crime figures, would become a wealthy man. In 1928, gangster Joey Noe set up the Hub Social Club, a rat hole-in-the-wall speakeasy in a Brook Avenue tenement and hired Schultz to work in it. While working at the Club, S...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=37956