'KING OF BOOTLEGGERS' GAVE MANY PARTIES WHILE IN PRISON
Chicago, Illinois (JFK+50) On March 25, 1926, Associated Press reports that Cincinnati bootlegger George Remus* , "whose activities led to a term in Atlanta Penitentiary," will be going into the real-estate business here in the Windy City.
George Remus made his fortune in the liquor business although he lost a court case in which 1,550 cases of re-war whisky were destroyed.
Mr. Remus says he gave many parties while in prison and "could send out for almost anything" he wished.
George Remus (1874-1952) was born in Landsberg, Germany & is described as "the mastermind of one of the most famous whisky rings in the United States." GR shot & killed his wife in 1927 but was acquitted.
SOURCES
"George Remus-'King of the Bootleggers' in the Boneyfiddle," by Andrew Lee Feight, PhD, www.sciotohistorical.org/
"Parties and Luxury During Prison Term Cost Remus $17,000," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., March 25, 1926, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
