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George Remus (November 13, 1876 [1] – January 20, 1952) was a German-born American lawyer who was a bootlegger during the early days of Prohibition, [2] and later murdered his wife Imogene. [ 3 ] Early life
October 6 - As Augusta Imogene Remus is riding in a cab with her twenty-year-old daughter, enroute to a hearing finalizing her divorce from George Remus, Cincinnati's "Bootleg King," her estranged husband has his chauffeur pursue Mrs. Remus's cab. The vehicle carrying George Remus overtakes the cab and blocks it in Eden Park, after which George ...
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS - In the 1920s and early 1930s, Atlantic Highlands held a special distinction. “It was considered to be the bootlegging capital of the eastern United States during Prohibition ...
The Shelton Brothers Gang was an early Prohibition-era bootlegging gang based in southern Illinois. They were the main rivals of the famous bootlegger Charles Birger and his gang. In 1950, the Saturday Evening Post described the Sheltons as "America's Bloodiest Gang".
Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law. The term rum-running is more commonly applied to smuggling over water; bootlegging is applied to smuggling over land. Smuggling usually takes place to circumvent taxation or prohibition laws within a particular ...
The project includes building a new tunnel under the Hudson between North Jersey and Manhattan to boost service for NJ Transit and Amtrak riders. A consequential contract is approved to kick-start ...
A Delta water-delivery project — one tunnel or two — has been touted by Jerry Brown and Newsom’s teams as a way of correcting a fundamental problem with California’s delivery system that ...
Franklin L. Dodge, Jr. (July 29, 1891 – November 26, 1968) was a Bureau of Investigation agent in the early 1920s who had an affair with Imogene Remus, the wife of millionaire bootlegger George Remus. [1] Franklin L. Dodge, Jr. was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1891. His father, Franklin L. Dodge, Sr. was a prominent lawyer and businessman who ...