‘Beer Baron’ Dutch Schultz gunned down 90 years ago

‘Beer Baron’ Dutch Schultz gunned down 90 years ago

On October 23, 1935, Dutch Schultz was shot in a Newark restaurant along with three of his associates. In the hours that followed, the four men succumbed to their wounds, one by one. Schultz, the last to go, held on until the next day. In that time, he muttered a string of strange, rambling remarks. Much of it was incoherent, but a few lines drew attention from detectives at his bedside. Schultz’s lifetime of crime had come to a dramatic end. Be…