Killing of Dutch Schultz at the Palace Chop House was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in New Jersey, 1935.
Bronx beer baron Arthur 'Dutch' Schultz and three associates, Abe Landau, Bernard Rosenkrantz and accountant Otto Berman, were shot at the Palace Chop House in Newark by gunmen of the emerging national syndicate's enforcement arm. The killing, generally credited to Charles 'the Bug' Workman on orders from the Commission, was prompted by Schultz's insistence on assassinating prosecutor Thomas Dewey, a plan the syndicate leadership rejected as certain to bring ruinous heat. Schultz lingered before dying of his wounds, his delirious deathbed ramblings later famous, while his aides died of theirs. The Newark attack eliminated one of the last powerful independent bootleg-era bosses and affirmed the authority of the ruling Commission over member gangs. It stands as a defining moment in the consolidation of organized crime under centralized syndicate control.
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