Dutch Schultz’s Last Meal of a Steak, Fries & Peppercorn Sauce is this week’s focus on the Last Supper.

Dutch Schultz, real name Arthur Flegenheimer, was a notorious Jewish Gangster who operated in New York, mainly The Bronx & Harlem, during the 1920s & 1930s.

Like many mobsters, Schultz flourished during Prohibition, owning most speakeasies in the Bronx & controlling the supply of alcohol, earning him the name The Beer Baron of the Bronx.

He gained a fierce reputation of extreme brutality when he lost his temper, including one instance when a rival wouldn't give his territory over, Schultz and crew hung him up by his thumbs on meat hooks and rubbed his eyes with a bandage smeared with discharge from a gonorrhoea infection, causing him to go blind. They then broke both his legs and accepted 35,000 dollars for his release from the family.

After Prohibition he muscled his way into the Harlem numbers racket and began fixing the numbers using a maths whiz called Abbadabba Berman - I go into more detail about this on my website.

With the Numbers racket he was making millions of dollars each week and of course this was all tax-free for Dutch, which would ultimately be his downfall. Similarly to how Elliot Ness & The Untouchables indicted Al Capone on income tax evasion, hungry and eager special prosecutor Thomas E Dewey pinned the same crime on Dutch Schultz.

Dutch eventually beat the case after a series of bribery and intimidation, however he was banished from New York by the mayor and Dewey, and had to move his operations across the water to New Jersey after he was told he’d be arrested on site if he were to ever return to New York, something that angered Dutch tremendously.

After requesting a meeting with Lucky Luciano and the newly formed commission, Dutch Schultz then requested the green light to whack Dewey. The commission knew how much unwanted heat this would bring down onto their operations and opted against it. Apparently at this point in the meeting, upon hearing the decision, Dutch lost his temper and vowed to whack Dewey himself, leaving the commission with no choice.

On October 24th 1935, at his new headquarters The Palace Chophouse in New Jersey, Dutch and his new were met with a rain of bullets from 2 hitmen sent on orders of the Commission. Those 2 hitmen were Charles ‘The Bug’ Workman and Emanuel ‘Mendy’ Weiss.

Dutch died the next day, after spouting a few hours of incoherent babble, which has now gone down in history as Dutch Schultz’s Last Words, with some skeptics believing it contains clues to a hidden £7,000,000 treasure in upstate New York.

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