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'The gangster Arthur Flegenheimer, more commonly known as “Dutch Schultz,” came to Bridgeport April 30, 1935.
Schultz and his bodyguard, Lulu Rosenkrantz, occupied the fourth floor suite at the Stratfield Hotel on Main Street downtown.
Schultz was interviewed by local reporters in the suite. One reporter said that Schultz gave the interview “more gracefully and with more poise than some of the persons in less exciting professions than his.”
Dutch Schultz had a long criminal history, including overseeing a successful bootlegging operation. During the Prohibition years, his selling of illegal liquor was widespread.
Even in 1933 at the end of Prohibition, his control of the crime racket in New York City was notorious.
Schultz was indicted in 1933 for tax evasion. He was accused of not filing tax returns for 1929,1930 and 1931. By this time FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover named Schultz “Public Enemy No. 1.”
In November 1934, Schultz surrendered to authorities, and
Schultz and his bodyguard, Lulu Rosenkrantz, occupied the fourth floor suite at the Stratfield Hotel on Main Street downtown.
Schultz was interviewed by local reporters in the suite. One reporter said that Schultz gave the interview “more gracefully and with more poise than some of the persons in less exciting professions than his.”
Dutch Schultz had a long criminal history, including overseeing a successful bootlegging operation. During the Prohibition years, his selling of illegal liquor was widespread.
Even in 1933 at the end of Prohibition, his control of the crime racket in New York City was notorious.
Schultz was indicted in 1933 for tax evasion. He was accused of not filing tax returns for 1929,1930 and 1931. By this time FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover named Schultz “Public Enemy No. 1.”
In November 1934, Schultz surrendered to authorities, and
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Birth — 1901
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"...In 1935 the Prohibition-era gangster and bootlegger Dutch Schultz moved to the Stratfield Hotel across the street for several months after two trials for tax evasion in New York State. It is wondered if he was involved in the murder of two people in the second floor lobby of the Savoy during this period. A month after leaving Bridgeport Dutch Shultz was gunned down in Newark, New Jersey..." historicbuildingsct.com){kind=small}
Death — 1935
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