BROOKLYN OUTBREAK

Northern Advocate, 25 October 1935, Page 8

BROOKLYN OUTBREAK

TWO MORE VICTIMS NOTORIOUS FIGURE SHOT r United Press Association.-By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.'] (Received 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 23. \\7’ARFARE among gangsters in ’ v Brooklyn and the loyrer east side of Manhattan through which at least six lives haye been lost in the past two months, claimed another victim today. Louis Amberg, with his head badly injured, was placed in a stolen motor car, which was set on fire. Amberg’s brother was one of the gangsters who was assassinated in_ a garage on September 30. The police believe that Amberg, who lived in Brooklyn, was attempting to gain control of various rackets in Manhattan, and that, in retaliation, he and his brother were killed. His murder seemingly came as a signal for a wild outburst of gang shooting. Late in the evening Arthur (“Dutch Schultz”) Flegenheimer, the notorious gang leader, was attacked by rival gangsters while sitting with three companions in a tavern at Ndw ark (New Jersey). He and his three companions fell seriously wounded in a hail of machine-gun and shot bullets. One of them died later, but “Schultz” has a slight chance of recovery. Meanwhile police both un New York and New Jersey are frantically trying to run down the gunmen. Martin Krompier, closely associated with “Schultz” in many criminal enterprises, was shot down and seriously wounded in a barber’s shop in the “Times” Square section of New York city. The police theory for these two attacks is that since the acquittal on an evasion of income tax charge, “Dutch Schultz” had attempted to re-assert his authority in the New York underworld, which his rivals decided to contest by assassination.