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Gangster Dutch Schultz's Life - Essay

Gangster Dutch Schultz's Life

Dutch Schultz is one of the best known New York mobsters of the prohibition era. After dropping out of school in the fourth grade and turning to a life of crime, Schultz started with pick-pocketing and petty theft, moved up to bootlegging and smuggling, and eventually left his mark in bloody gang wars. Schultz was considered, even among gangsters, “totally evil.” Dutch Schultz ran speakeasies, “importing” liquor from Canada and creating his own beer, which tasted terrible, though he had an obvious following.
He changed his name to Dutch Schultz from Arthur Flegenheimer while serving his first prison sentence. At the age of eighteen, Arthur Flegenheimer opened a saloon. By his early ...

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became a threat, and Schultz decided to
kill him to get him out of the way. But before execution day arrived, Schultz was arrested for Income Tax evasion, a common tale of those days. Schultz could not foresee the outcome of the trial; so he had a steel box created by an ironworker in which he could hide some of his “treasure,” which consisted of thousand dollar bills, diamonds, gold coins, and jewelry.
Considered New York's leading gangster, he was ultimately gunned down by three rival mobsters. He survived for two days, in a guarded hospital room, where a police stenographer at his bedside took his stream-of-consciousness last words, a fevered rumination mixing the present and the ...

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Added: 8/20/2005 09:17:41 AM
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