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Dutch Schultz’s story, and the legend of his treasure, could be straight out of Hollywood, but it’s real.

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A look at Donegal native Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, who went on to be one of the most notorious gangsters in 1920s New York City.

His real name was Arthur Flegenheimer, but as he slowly became one of New York City's most feared mobsters, he changed his name to "Dutch Shultz," according to history.com. According to the website syracuse.com, Schultz allegedly stashed money, gold, jewelry, and bonds in a steel box, waterproof safe, or a suitcase buried somewhere in the Catskills region in the 1930s. His fortune was estimated at between $5 million and $9 million at the time; today, it would be worth between $50 million and $100 million. During prohibition in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Schultz was a renowned bootlegg...

T.J. English didn’t quite know what to expect when he went up to Boston earlier this year to promote his eye-opening new book, Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster. “Boston is the one place where this story is still a contemporary story, because of South Boston and the way Irish-American culture has been preserved in South Boston like no place else,” said English. Boston, of course, is Whitey Bulger’s old stomping grounds. The man who remains one of the FBI’s most wanted has been on the run for years. But more than a handful of his old soldiers and associat...