Dutch Schultz (Born Arthur Flegenheimer), (August 6, 1902 – October 23, 1935) was a New York City-area 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 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 t...
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Dutch Schultz (Born Arthur Flegenheimer), (August 6, 1902 – October 23, 1935) was a New York City-area 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 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...
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