Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer) was a mobster of the 1920s and 30s in the area of New York City, and a rival of Lucky Luciano. To prevent his unauthorized planned murder of prosecutor Thomas Dewey, a U.S. Attorney, Dutch was shot on 23 October 1935 at the Palace Chop House in Newark, New Jersey, by order of the Mafia and died the following day. His death-bed babbling in between, fully transcribed by a police stenographer, has been a perennial subject of counterculture literature ever since, notably including the famously enigmatic line, "A boy has never wept… nor dashed a thousand kim."Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer) was a mobster of the 1920s and 30s in the area of New York City, and a rival of Lucky Luciano. To prevent his unauthorized planned murder of prosecutor Thomas Dewey, a U.S. Attorney, Dutch was shot on 23 October 1935 at the Palace Chop House in Newark, New Jersey, by order of the Mafia and died the following day. His death-bed babbling in between, fully transcribed by a police stenographer, has been a perennial subject of counterculture literature ever since, notably including the famously enigmatic line, "A boy has never wept… nor dashed a thousand kim."...more
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