Mobster Dutch Schultz shot, mortally wounded in Newark 90 years ago this hour (Oct 23 1935)


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(Wednesday, October 23, 1935, 10:15 p.m. EST) — Mobster Dutch Schultz, 34, was shot and mortally wounded with three other men during a gangland hit tonight at the Palace Chophouse in Newark, New Jersey.

Schultz lingered for almost one day, speaking in various states of lucidity with his wife, mother, a priest, police and hospital staff before dying of peritonitis on Oct. 24, 1935.