A GANGSTER KILLED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22711, 25 October 1935, Page 10

A GANGSTER KILLED

BROTHER OF RECENT VICTIM NEW YORK, October 23. (Received Oct. 24, at 10 p.m.) Gang warfare between Brooklyn and the lower east side of Manhattan, which lias taken at least six lives during the past two months, drew another victim to-day, when Louis Amberg, with his head bashed in, was placed in a stolen automobile, which was set on fire. Amberg’s brother was one of the gangsters assassinated in a garage recently. The police believe that Amberg, who lived in Brooklyn, was attempting to gain control of various rackets in Manhattan, and in retaliation both he and his brother were killed. FURTHER SHOOTINGS NEW YORK, October 24. (Received Oct. 24, at 11.55 p.m.) ‘The murder of Amberg seemingly came as a signal for a wild outburst of gang shootings. Late in the evening Arthur (“Dutch Schultz”) Flcgeuheimer was attacked by rival gangsters while sitting with three companions in a tavern in Newark, New Jersey. He and his three companions fell, seriously wounded, under a hail of machine gun and shotgun bullets. One died later and Schultz has only a slight chance to recover. While the police in both New York and New Jersey were frantically trying to run down the gunmen, Martin Krompier, who has been 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 of the two attacks is that since his acquittal on an income tax charge Schultz has attempted to reassert his authority in the New York underworld, which his rivals have decided to contest by assassinations.