The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1922, Page 24

{/ULIILLAY pa TN] | hn ea SE a RU "King R | ; quit dh | Tm ae od ot ; Ruled Like a King, Lived In a Palace, Scattered Huge ‘“‘Overnight’’ Fortune In Revelry and in Largess To His Retainers--- Wife Was His ‘‘Prime Minister’’ | Now Dethroned, N less than two years ¥ if through the illicit His Empire Has purchase and sale of whiskey and other C bl d d Hi. strong waters, Georee UTUMOLEd aN us Remus of Cincinnati, Otten dnealculable colar more than a cunning tan ~=—d Wealth Has and o willingness to take a chance with the law, amassed a fortune Shrunk to a variously estimated as to size, a for- tune almost certainly not less than Paltry $1 ,000,000 $3,000,000 and in all likelihood twice, Perhaps several times, that amount. Going up! To-day Remus, with thirteen of his bootlegging associates, stands con- victed of having conspired to violate : . 4. WCE: Caer aS | the Prohibition Law, and faces a a F f - ‘ : sentence of two years’ imprisonment in the Federal Penitentiary at At- Janta, Ga., and a fine of $10,000, in addition to a sentence of a year in Jail and a fine of $1,000 imposed in a co-related case. And his fortune haa shrunk to @ paltry million or such a matter, Going down! Remus, a roly-poly man of about forty, with Semitic features, black, beady eyes and a pronounced bald spot, came to Cincinnati from Chicago soon after the signing of the armis- tice in 1918 Although not widely known, he was not a_ stranger RET TT TOE se a a Se S Rulerofa BootlepsEmpire’ D, | } DK ed : | | i | vit le Oi M ple Ure Ty t HAA a inn inl Vinal HNN Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co. 3 magnificences Is her swimming pool. At the Height of the New this great marble bath, erected in the ’ Remus gardens at a cost of $100,000, Year's Revelry Mrs. Remus Tai'ti‘scone last Now Year's Bve ot Donned a Bathing Suit and o cedication feast rivalling in magnifi- F Divi P cence the stories spread of the de- Her Fancy Diving Put to jasea Russian Emperors. About the Ss 8) . guests sat down at the tables, which Shame the Four Water were ranged arotid the switr, Nymphs Who Had Been_ ming poo! facing the water. Not C) * . mindful of the value of social pi Hired to Entertain the srs. Remns nad invited the soclety, Guests editors of all the Cincinnati datly 3 newspapers to the feast. None re- sponded. Numbers of reporters were here, having married in Cincinnati, there, however, and it is to thetr ob- his bride being a housemaid in the } : . ; 1 ‘ (a - servations that a waiting public ts in- family @f Jacob Schmidlapp, now , A ane % y debted for these revelations. dead, who for many years was promi- eee Gina ee pitas ren nent in the financial and business life whiskey was relegated to the kitchen of this city, When Remus first met the butlery and the garage. One hun- { the woman who was to be his wife he dred young girls, garbed in Grecian was a law student, That was ten robes of flowing white, served the ban- years ago. After their marriage they ST EIWIba Tone meine aon cha done took up their residence in Chicago, fessional entertainers, gave a diving where Remus was admitted to the bar exhibition in the pool. The sensation and where in the course of yeara ho won some reputation as a criminal lawyer. ‘ y oa ‘qu of the occasion, however, was Mrs. Remus herself, who, appearing in a one-piece bathing costume, put tho professionals to shame by her exhibi- tion of diving and swimming. The adopted daughter of ara Mrs. Remus, Miss Ruth, was, next her mother, the chief attraction of the evening. This young girl—she is only fourteen—won her way to the hearts of all the guests by her guyety and amiability, Ruth was adopted by the Remuses in the old Chicago days before the god ef the boot- leggers had begun to beam in smiles of gold upon the family. The le formality of adoption was through with only within the last year, Like her foster mother, Ruth, it would appear, has a check book all) her own, Her gifts to her fellow students at the Conservatory of Music last Christmas amazed the re- cipients by their splendor. The gold and platinum trinkets studded with diamonds she gave away are under- stood to have cost about $15,000, All this magnificence might have been continued indefinitely had Re- mus been wise enough to heed the old saying, that familarity breeds contempt. Keeping in the back- ground at first and boasting to his intimates that his tracks were 60 well covered that he never could be reached by the law, little by little, emboldened by hie apparent tmmun- only a step from legitimate to ille- gitimate dealing in the stuff that The return of the Remuses to Cin- cheers and has been known to intoxi- cinnati did not create a ripple. They cate. Once he realized the \mmense el profits to be made in bootlegging, Se0k! Sp Tis here modestly) We ON Ata whiskey in aneans(On every hind apartment in a bourgeois nelghbor- ang not a drop to drink exvept be- hood. That was before Prohibition, pind the door, he plunged into the Tt do mot yet stidok the = cc with an cager that h: stride that was to make him notorious €Ver “distinguished his sort where there was money to be made. from one end of the country to the + SOOT Sere Within two years he had built up \ other and eventually carry him to the 4) Greanization that dealt in terms threshold of a prison. Hut he was in of millions, He bought distillery aft- training. Even before his return to ter distillery, atnong them the Edge- Cincinnati, during the latter years of wood, the Old 76, the Clifton Springs ain i as tho place was knowe, otherwise, bootleg king, if current reports aye to to members of the & “the Hole in be accepted. It is common gossip his residence in Chicago, he had had and the W. B. Saulihbs. to say noth. the Ground”—pu Kee Shaniins iat Glucianetl attorney af cic & finger in the whiskey business, then jng of a flock of smaller plants, To YOlving hundreds, sometimes thou- standing, who w employed by a legitimate matter, as attorney or ¢goiitate the removal of the whiskey *248 of cases. Remus at the start of fits bootlessing agent for certain distillery interests. from these distilleries he bought or _ Included in the Remus bootlegging career to look after minor legal mat- Upon his removal to Cincinnat! he organized one wholesale drug com- Plant were also a ficet of eighteen ex- ters for the ring amassed a fortune continued to pursue this specialty, pany after another. But the whiskey Pensive touring cars and a squadron of $250,000 in the nearly two years of representing some of the big distillery witharawn seldom reac’ these of forty trucks, At the height of bootjersing immunity. Nor were the interests of this then important companies. It would be despatched M8 prosperity “the king of the highfr-ups the only ones to profit whiskey centre, who, with the Sabara ostensibly to them but Jonded on bootleggers," by which dubious title Remigs was liberal in his treatment storm of Prohibition looming on the trucks jt would he poured into the the leader of the band soon came to of the humble members of his orga- horizon, were selling out and seeking pation-wide bootlegging conduit to be Known, had more than 250 per- nization. It was brought out at his shelter. From the fees received for w York, Chicago and the Sons on his payroll, including his trial, for Instance, that a roustabout these services and as the result of an great. citien of the ,country. brother-in-law, Harry $. Brown, and employed as a night watchman at the eccasional flyer taken on his own ac- — Purther to centralize the business George D. Connors, who acted as his bootleg farm received a wage of $50 count in whiskey speculation, Remus pRoemus bought a farm near Cincin- chief Meutenants. Connors, formerly a week. had @ nice, comfortable, Httle nest nati, in Ohio just this side of the ® mail clerk here at $20 a week, and ogg when the great ness settled Indiana line, which he converted into Brown were both carrifd along by ¢ land on the first day of the a clearing house for the sale of whis- Remus to the acquisition of large 20, key over the counter. Witness after wealth, although nothing in compari- Thus tt will be seon that George witness at the trials of Remus and fon with the chief's, These are not id not enter the bootlegging game his associates told of purchases made the only ones to profit financially tu National Bank where Remus, at first cold turkey, He drifted in, It was at the Dater or Death Valley Farm, @ large way from the favor of the under his own name and later atter a Remus could afford to be liberal. even munificont, The money from the if sale of contraband liquor rolled in in millions. It was shown at the trial by testimony of officials of the Lincoln Hale. Aza ity from restriction, he ventured fur- y Alexander, kep' the result that when he and his hia, princi 1 aecount, that it was @) sociates finally were brought to bo + POURINE Unusual for him or his agents the prosecution had no difficulty at fo deposit as much as $50,000 In a (e all {n implicating him in the con- gle day, a spiracy, openly with the tra fle in eoryitt All the inviting expanse of the 4 contraband liquor at Death Valley bootlesine tela “and its apparent we Farm and even in an attempt to rom obstructions, emus rit : bribe a Prohibition enforcement found an ¢ in his pathy other Mine 4 pret: . officer. than any placed by the law. This was f 4 Z wb serie of raids by rival bootleggers. v, mhese, bexinning about a year ago, when the Remus machine was at the topnotch of oiled running, took the form of attacks by bands of armed men on F § trucks carrying caves of whiskey for delivery at distant des tinations. To meet this new danger, } Remus, after he had been despolled of several! caravans of whiskey, put armed guards on his trucks, Several pitched battles were fought between the rival bands and not a few men were woun.ed, with one or two fatal- itles. The attacks were continued and it was not until Remus patched up a truce with the of the *out- laws,” Ernest otherwise “Buck” Brady, later convicted .with Remus. that peace was ; red At the trial Remus followed the pro- ceedings with the interest of a lawyer as well as with the preoccupation a defendant, Twice during the ae ceedings he overruled his own couny side of the entrance to the Loring AB.) an array of eminent lawyers from\ drews jewelry and antique shop, Mr8. diferent cities, and allowed the tntro- ya Remus one day alighted from her Guction of evidence to which they had limousine and entering demanded to Gijected on technical grounds, With tained, was purchased by Remus soon know of a clerk their price tatornies all his watchfulne however, the de- after the tide of millions began xo that they were not for sale, she called fense was an abject failure, only one flow into his coffers, The house was the manager and insisted that he place of the fourtcen defendants taking the remodelled, practically rebuilt, while a price on them, At random he quoted stund, and that one making udmis- many thousands of dollars were ex- a price many times their value, think- sions on cross-examination fatal to the pended in beautifying the extensive ing that would end the incident. Not popes of the defense grounds. The old howestead was so. Producing her check book Mrs. When the ver turned into @ seat of regal magnifi- Remus wrote out a check for the 8UM turned Rer Fay named, 009, Since that day the At the supplemorfary trial, at which ‘he making of the home was Mrs. lions ed at the passerby he with half a ¢ n of his associates he it ffm either side of the entrance to the was convicted on a minor charge, that Remus ¢ ain of maintaining a nuisance at the Everything that Mrs, Remus does is Death Valley Parm, he surprised the nid by Court hy making a plea for leniency let of guilty was re- seemed all but crushed, Remus's particular charge was who planned and carried out the Rema, tie: Spre alterations, who plotted the scheme for one of tha n, Was at her hus- of the grounds. Unlike most house- (°¥" 5 tance convicted with him, @ with counsel and ad- Bame and which included the paluy wives her purse was practically un- Persons who attach tmportance to youn man, Elmer Roth, who, he Was his confidante, his Wal home of the Kemuses at Price limited. She bought whatever she such gewgaws to be wonderful. On suid, was merely an employee and business mentor ¥ law on his shoulder Mrs. Remus was right there with the bail bond pledg- ing property which stood in her own All the time Mrs mer Imogene By band’s elbow vice. ae YThe DATER FARM ‘in'Death Valley” » lavish, Her diamonds are To what extent she Hill, a suburS of Conoinnat Yuis wanted, no matter what the price, The her left hand alone blazes $100 0005 ® had nothing to do “with the maine . id “Knowledge of his bootlegging ac- place, the old Lackman hou d, a story of the plaster lions illustrates fortune on the Interest of which at taining of this nulvance."’ The sen- tivities is not known, but certain It Is house of histor mew here, that 4 por cent, you or I could live In tence of the young man, however, w: that whenever one of the members 0° during the Civil War, Gon coman Impressed by the ornamental nature comparative comfort wed to stand—three months 4 the gang ‘felt the heavy hand of the and other national berocs were cater- of these Hons, placed one op either Not the least of Mrs. Remus’e und $1,000 foe, J ‘ ~eaBA te oe