Last of the great pre-Repeal gangsters left alive or at liberty is blank-faced, chicken-hearted Arthur (“Dutch Schultz”) Flegenheimer, onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the ...

The late Dutch Schultz loathed wire-tappers ... The obsession grew worse in his last years as boss of the policy racket in New York, with federal agents and city detectives tapping his office ...