Dutch Schultz was shot on October 23, 1935, while he was at the Palace Chop House restaurant at 12 East Park Street in Newark, along with Otto Berman, his accountant; Abe Landau, his new chief lieutenant; and his personal bodyguard, Bernard “Lulu” Rosenkrantz.
The machine gunners who mowed down Dutch Schultz and three aids in this Newark restaurant, turned their weapons on the Bronx racketeer as he emerged from door at far end of bar where police are congregated (photo). Berman died first, followed by Landau, then Schultz. Rosenkrantz was the last to die, 29 hours after the shooting.
Murder Inc. hitmen, Mendy Weiss and Charles Workman, carried out the hit with Seymour Schechter waiting in the car as their driver. Under orders, Schechter drove away with Weiss, leaving Workman at the scene to make sure the job was completed. Workman, unhappy with being left behind, filed a grievance with Murder Inc. against Weiss and Schechter. The grievance was upheld and Schechter was killed by Murder Inc.
In 1944, Weiss was executed in the electric chair for another murder. Workman was caught, tried for the murder and spent 23 years in jail. Upon release he went “straight” and got a job as a salesman in the garment district. He died in 1979