Editing Dutch Schultz (section)

===Bootlegger===
In the mid-1920s, Schultz had begun work as a [[Bouncer (doorman)|bouncer]] at the Hub Social Club, a small [[speakeasy]] in the Bronx owned by a gangster named Joey Noe. Noe was impressed with Schultz's reputation for brutality and made him a partner. Together they soon opened more illegal drinking establishments around the Bronx. Using their own trucks to reduce high delivery costs, they brought in beer made by Frankie Dunn, a brewer in [[Union City, New Jersey|Union City]], [[New Jersey]]. Schultz often [[Riding shotgun|rode shotgun]] to guard the trucks from hijackers.

Schultz and Noe soon had to deal with brothers John and Joe Rock, who were already running a [[rumrunning|bootlegging]] operation in the Bronx. Initially the brothers refused to buy beer from Noe and Schultz, but eventually John, the elder brother, agreed to cooperate; however, his younger brother Joe refused. One night the Noe-Schultz gang kidnapped Joe, beat him and hung him by his thumbs from a meat hook. They then allegedly wrapped a gauze bandage smeared with discharge from a [[gonorrhea]] infection over his eyes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.freeinfosociety.com/article.php?id=205 |title=Schultz, Dutch – The Free Information Society |publisher=Freeinfosociety.com |access-date=December 28, 2010 |archive-date=April 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413112334/http://www.freeinfosociety.com/article.php?id=205 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Joe's family reportedly paid $35,000 for his release. Shortly after his return, he went blind. From then on, the Noe-Schultz gang met little opposition as they expanded across the entire Bronx.<ref name="five families book"/> Bootlegging during Prohibition made Schultz very wealthy.<ref name="five families book"/>