Not in enough difficulty, Shultz then went even further to anger the Commission by informing them that the key to his freedom was the elimination of Dewey. He even formulated a plan by which the elimination could be carried out. He then went so far as to contact Anastasia, from Murder Inc., to arrange for the contract on Dewey. The Commission had already established rules, including that honest public officials could not be marked for death by the crime organization. Anastasia took this information to members of the Commission, who made the decision that Shultz could no longer be allowed to roll like a loose cannon. The contract on Dewey was declared null and void and in its place a contract was put out on Shultz. In the fall of 1935, Shultz was conducting a meeting with some of his associates in Newark. At one point Dutch left the table to go to the restroom. When he was gone, the doors burst open and two gunmen entered the room with guns blazing. To cover their back the gunmen shot the man in the restroom without even looking to see who he was. They examined the bodies in the room and could not locate Shultz. The gunmen rushed to the restroom where the first man had been shot and realized he was Shultz. By this time the police were only moments away and the two gunmen could not finish the job in an effective manner.
Shultz lingered for a day and a half before he finally died. Naturally he could not give a clue to the police as to who carried out the attack. He may have been a loose cannon but he would not become a rat. While lying with his wounds he talked in a delirious manner about both his mother and Satan. When he finally died, the Commission moved in to take control of his holdings and divide up his empire. Shultz had gone the way of others who felt they could maintain an independence from the Commission's control.
