On November 4, 1928, Arnold Rothstein was shot and mortally wounded during a business meeting at Manhattan's
Park Central Hotel at Seventh Avenue near 55th Street.
[15] He died the next day at the
Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital in Manhattan.
[2] The shooting was reportedly linked to debts owed from a 3-day long, high-stakes poker game in October. Rothstein hit a cold streak and ended up owing $320,000. He claimed the game was fixed and refused to pay his debt. The hit was intended to punish Rothstein for failing to pay his debt.
[16] The gambler George "Hump" McManus was arrested for the murder, but later acquitted for lack of evidence.
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