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Typed letter of July 1935 addressed to J. Edgar Hoover about the trial of Arthur Flegenheimer at Malone, New York, with the signature redacted and the serial 23-2130-214 stamped at the foot, from the FBI Vault, Dutch Schultz Part 01, page 17
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FBI Vault: Arthur Flegenheimer (Dutch Schultz), Part 01

First of five parts of the FBI's file 23-2130 on Arthur Flegenheimer. The scans are poor; the clearest page is a July 1935 letter to J. Edgar Hoover about the jury at Flegenheimer's trial "now being held at Malone, N.Y." That page is stored here.

Date
1931/1935
Kind
case-file
Source
FBI Records: The Vault
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Rights
A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The stored page is the Vault's scan of page 17; the writer's name was redacted by the FBI.

The Vault titles this part “Arthur Flegenheimer (Dutch Schultz) Part 01.” It has 25 scanned pages, and the cover page reads “FILE #23-2130.” The scans are poor and the viewer’s OCR is almost unreadable. Page 17 was read from the page image.

Page 17 is a typed letter to “Mr J. Edgar Hoover, Director- Bureau of Investigation,” dated in July 1935 (the day is hard to read) and stamped with the serial 23-2130-214 and a receipt date of July 30, 1935. The writer, whose name the FBI redacted, says: “I fully expected that incidental to the trial of Arthur ( Dutch Schults )Flegenheimer, now being held at Malone, N.Y., there would be a need for my services in your department, at least for the purpose of passing on the qualifications and selection of the jurors for the case.” The letter offers an opinion of the jury and offers help “In the event of a re-trial.” The quotation follows the typed spelling “Schults.”

The letter is a private person’s offer, not a court record. It does not name the court or the charge. The Division of Investigation’s identification order of November 1934 states the federal income-tax indictment in the Southern District of New York. Pages 21 and 24 are a Bureau report and a laboratory report that were not read in full. Parts 02 and 04 of the file are mostly illegible in the OCR and are not filed. For Parts 03 and 05, see the three memoranda filed from them: October 25, 1935, November 14, 1935 and April 25, 1940.

itemFBI memorandum for the Director: "Dutch" Schultz (October 25, 1935)A one-page memorandum of October 25, 1935, signed by E. A. Tamm, recording the New York Special Agent in Charge's theory about the shooting of Dutch Schultz. It is the Bureau's record of an opinion, and it names no suspect. The page is stored here.itemIdentification Order No. 1234: Arthur Flegenheimer, "Federal Income Tax Law Violation" (19 November 1934)Division of Investigation wanted notice for Arthur Flegenheimer, with aliases including "Dutch" Schultz, indicted in the Southern District of New York on 25 January 1933 for violating the federal income tax law. A copy is stored here.item"Wanted for Violation of Federal Income Tax Law": Treasury broadside for Arthur Flegenheimer and Henry Margolis (1934)A 1934 Treasury Department, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Intelligence Unit broadside with fingerprints and booking photographs of Arthur Flegenheimer ("Dutch Schultz") and Henry Margolis. A copy is stored here.itemWestheimer v. Collector of Internal Revenue, 12 F. Supp. 20 (S.D.N.Y. 1935)District Court opinion of 1935 dismissing a petition over a tax levy on a bank account: it states that an income-tax assessment of $79,000 was entered "against one Flegenheimer, alias Dutch Schultz," and that the Collector levied on an account in another person's name on December 24, 1934.