Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Welcome to our second video from Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York. During the 1920s and early 1930s Prohibition was alive and well in the United States. And what do you get when you are told you can't have a cocktail? People like Al Capone, Legs Diamond and our subject for today - Dutch Schultz. So sit back, enjoy the video and let me know what you think in the comments. To find the exact location of the final resting place of Mr. Schultz along with biographical information, links, interviews, photos and videos please visit thetombstonetourist.com/graves/dutch-schultz/. Thank you for all your support!
Dutch Schultz was a New York based mobster who made his fortune bootlegging rum during Prohibition, followed by gambling, the numbers racket and the restaurant racket afterwards. Schultz was known for his extreme brutality and the accumulation of a frightening body count of those opposed to him including Legs Diamond, Arnold Rothstein and Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. By 1935 he was in open conflict with US attorney Thomas Dewey. Schultz was arrested, then freed (to the utter surprise of everyone) when he bribed the venue of his trial, but as Dewey continued to pursue he started hemorrhaging money and power. Afterwards, Schultz called an emergency meeting of the Mafia Commission for permission to kill Dewey. Worried that there would be immense law enforcement pressure on the Commission if such a popular public official was murdered, the members refused. Schultz was furious, blaming the commission for "feeding him to the law", and vowed to kill Dewey himself. After Schultz stormed off, after six hours of deliberations the Commission ordered Louis Buchalter of Murder Inc. to eliminate "The Dutchman. A few days later, Schultz along with 3 of his henchmen were shot at The Palace Chophouse Restaurant (his headquarters at the time) by two hit men (Charles "The Bug" Workman and Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss) from Murder Inc. All 4 of the shooting victims died within a day of the ambush.
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Welcome to our second video from Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York. During the 1920s and early 1930s Prohibition was alive and well in the United States. And what do you get when you are told you can't have a cocktail? People like Al Capone, Legs Diamond and our subject for today - Dutch Schultz. So sit back, enjoy the video and let me know what you think in the comments. To find the exact location of the final resting place of Mr. Schultz along with biographical information, links, interviews, photos and videos please visit thetombstonetourist.com/graves/dutch-schultz/. Thank you for all your support!
Dutch Schultz was a New York based mobster who made his fortune bootlegging rum during Prohibition, followed by gambling, the numbers racket and the restaurant racket afterwards. Schultz was known for his extreme brutality and the accumulation of a frightening body count of those opposed to him including Legs Diamond, Arnold Rothstein and Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. By 1935 he was in open conflict with US attorney Thomas Dewey. Schultz was arrested, then freed (to the utter surprise of everyone) when he bribed the venue of his trial, but as Dewey continued to pursue he started hemorrhaging money and power. Afterwards, Schultz called an emergency meeting of the Mafia Commission for permission to kill Dewey. Worried that there would be immense law enforcement pressure on the Commission if such a popular public official was murdered, the members refused. Schultz was furious, blaming the commission for "feeding him to the law", and vowed to kill Dewey himself. After Schultz stormed off, after six hours of deliberations the Commission ordered Louis Buchalter of Murder Inc. to eliminate "The Dutchman. A few days later, Schultz along with 3 of his henchmen were shot at The Palace Chophouse Restaurant (his headquarters at the time) by two hit men (Charles "The Bug" Workman and Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss) from Murder Inc. All 4 of the shooting victims died within a day of the ambush.
#famousgraves #gravesite #truecrimestories #themob #mafia #mobsters
