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A broken brick standing on end, with letters pressed into one face, photographed against a plain ground.
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Brick from the Palace Chop House, Newark, New Jersey, 23 October 1935 (FBI artifact)

FBI photograph of a brick salvaged from the Palace Chop House in Newark, where Arthur Flegenheimer, known as Dutch Schultz, and four associates were shot on the night of 23 October 1935.

Date
1935-10-23
Kind
photograph
Source
FBI, History: Artifacts
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Rights
Published by the FBI on fbi.gov as an artifact photograph with no third-party credit; a work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The copy stored here is the FBI's web image converted to JPEG.

The FBI states that Arthur Flegenheimer (Dutch Schultz) and four associates were shot at the Palace Chop House in Newark, New Jersey, on the night of 23 October 1935, and that Schultz died the next day. The brick is a piece of the restaurant that the Bureau holds. The page ties the Bureau’s interest to its investigation of who had helped Schultz while he was a fugitive on federal tax charges.

The page also gives an account of what organized-crime leaders decided about Thomas E. Dewey. That account is the FBI’s narrative and is not repeated here as a fact.

Object: Brick
Maker: not applicable
Date: 23 October 1935
Provenance: held by the FBI; the page gives no chain of custody
Appears in: FBI, Artifact of the Month, November 2017

itemDutch Schultz mug shot (National Archives, 65-CC-37-3)Undated front and profile mug shot of Dutch Schultz, also known as Arthur Simon Flegenheimer, held by the National Archives in the FBI's criminal-case photograph series. A copy is stored here.