FBI memorandum: information on "the murder of Dutch Schultz in Newark" (April 25, 1940)
A heavily redacted memorandum of April 25, 1940 from G. F. Bickley to E. A. Tamm recording a caller's information about the Newark killing of Dutch Schultz, and stating that "primarily the Bureau was not investigating this case." The page is stored here.
- Date
- 1940-04-25
- 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 22 of Part 05; the redactions are the FBI's (b6, b7C).
Page 22 of Part 05 (Final) of the Vault’s Schultz file is a memorandum for Mr. E. A. Tamm dated April 25, 1940 and signed by G. F. Bickley. It is stamped “Recorded” and “Indexed,” with a received date of April 30, 1940, and a serial in file 23-2130 whose last digit is unclear. Most of the text and every name in it are redacted. It was read from the page image. The typed surname reads “Schults.”
The legible passages say that by reference from the Director’s office on April 12, 1940, the writer spoke with a person whose information concerned “the individuals responsible for the murder of Dutch Schultz in Newark some years ago.” The memorandum continues that “Dutch Schultz was originally involved in an income tax matter with the Federal authorities and that the local authorities in New Jersey would be interested in the information concerning this matter, and primarily the Bureau was not investigating this case.” The caller “was thanked for his interest” and told the information would be made part of the records.
The memorandum is the Bureau’s statement of its own position in 1940. It treats the killing as a matter for the New Jersey authorities and the federal interest as the income-tax case (identification order, 1934). The same Part 05 holds a letter to the Director of October 20, 1938, signed by Special Agent in Charge A. P. Kitchin, whose content is redacted, and March and April 1940 letters.
