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...Chicago, arrested as a bookmaker when a detective heard him saying "Chantesuta, Poppinglong, Hydromella," over the telephone, John Schultz protested that he had been telling a friend how to pronounce the names of racehorses. He was fined...
...Gimme two nickels," he called to the barman on the floor. "I want to make a call." He went to a wall telephone, rang police headquarters. "This is Dutch Schultz," he gasped. "Send an ambulance. I'm dying...
Police cars, press cars and ambulances screamed toward the scene of the latest event in the career of Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, New York City's most notorious racketeer, the nation's most prosperous post-Repeal criminal and the one big hoodlum against whom the U. S. Government could not make income tax charges stick (TIME, Aug. 12, et ante). At the Palace Chop House & Tavern, officers, newshawks and surgeons beheld a sight unparalleled since Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre (TIME, Feb. 25. 1929). Lying on the sidewalk they found Abraham Landau, Flegenheimer henchman...
...much." All the victims were wrapped in blankets, piled on stretchers, dispatched to Newark City Hospital. Twice this year in upState New York Federal prosecutors had failed to get juries to convict Flegenheimer for failing to pay taxes on a discoverable $480,000 income for 1929-31. Avoiding Manhattan, Schultz first hid in Connecticut, where he had taken up horseback riding this summer, later took refuge in New Jersey. There the Government went after him again, this time on a tax evasion indictment in the Southern New York district. Fighting a Federal motion to send him back to New York...
Last of the great pre-Repeal gangsters left alive or at liberty is blank-faced, chicken-hearted Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy-game racket. "The cooler ain't never so cold as the morgue," quavered this pulpy nervous underworking last winter on giving himself up on a Federal charge of evading $92,103.34 in taxes on a 1929-31 income of $481,637.35. At his trial in Syracuse, N. Y. last spring he got a hung jury. Last week in rural Malone...