New York mobster (born Arthur Flegenheimer in 1901) involved in bootlegging and the numbers racket; he was assassinated by the Mafia in 1935. Typed police report, one page, 8 x 10.5, no date but circa 1935. Report on the shooting of Dutch Schultz. In part: “A Tavern and Restaurant…was entered by three men and upon going to the rear of restaurant opened fire…four men received gun shot wounds of the body and were removed to Newark City Hospital…The following are notes taken by a member of the Newark Police Dept., at the bedside of Dutch Schultz, while he was talking irrationally, in a semi-conscious condition. ‘Please leave me alone Bugs, I was never a bad guy in my life, I’m not a rat. Tough sweating. Aranson, fuck him the dirty rat I’ll get him. Augie, I always though you were a rat but I did not think you would do this.’” The report concludes with a description of three unidentified suspects in the shooting. In fine condition, with expected document wear. Schultz’s rambling last words became famous, and have been referenced and parodied in many works since. Provenance: Eugene Canevari Collection. RR Auction COA.
