conviction_status death_date death_place religion birth_place ethnicity name image_caption birth_date article_title birth_name occupation image_name
deceased 24 october 1935 newark , new jersey born catholicism of jewish immigrant parents but converted to roman new york city , new york christian dutch schultz mugshot , 1931 august 6 , 1901 dutch schultz
 arthur simon flegenheimer rum-runner , numbers game , mob boss schultz_dutch_mug . jpg
dutch schultz

dutch schultz -lrb- born arthur simon flegenheimer ; august 6 , 1901october 24 , 1935 -rrb- was a new york city-area german jewish-american mobster of the 1920s and 1930s who made his fortune in organized crime-related activities , including bootlegging and the numbers racket .
weakened by two tax evasion trials led by prosecutor thomas dewey , schultz 's rackets were also threatened by fellow mobster lucky luciano .
in an attempt to avert his conviction , schultz asked the commission for permission to kill dewey , which they refused .
when schultz disobeyed them and made an attempt to kill dewey , the commission ordered his murder in 1935 .
