CRIME: Happy Romola Remus

"Ohio Justice" is a byword. The man who made it so, Bootlegger-Killer George Remus, last week put a final flourish to the saying by walking out of Ohio's State Hospital for the Criminal Insane, a free man.

Last year George Remus, squat and muscular, got out of Atlanta Penitentiary after serving a short term for 'legging. He had made millions, had been caught, had got out. He suspected one Franklin L. Dodge Jr., a onetime U. S. Prohibition agent, of conspiring with Imogene Remus, his wife, to get his money and his life. Mrs. Remus and Dodge were paramours, Remus...

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