found: Kentucky death records, 1852-1953 (Ancestry.com), viewed February 2, 2017 (George Remus, white male, age 73, born November 13, 1878 in Germany; died January 20, 1952 in Kenton County, Kentucky)
found: Find A Grave website, viewed February 2, 2017 (George Remus, born November 13, 1878 in Berlin, Germany; died January 20, 1952 in Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky; organized crime figure, known as the King of the Bootleggers; he became a lawyer and began representing clients who were being charged under the new Prohibition rules; he began a bootlegging operation in Chicago but moved to Cincinnati in 1919 after divorcing his first wife and marrying Imogene Holmes; they settled into a mansion on Price Ave in Cincinnati; he went to jail in Atlanta on January 24, 1924; while in prison, Imogene began an affair with Franklin L. Dodge, a prohibition agent on the Remus case, and they stripped George of his assets; on October 6, 1927, Remus was released from prison and three days later hunted his then ex-wife down on a Cincinnati street and shot her; he was sentenced to the Lima (Ohio) State Hospital but was released upon appeal; unable to reestablish his bootlegging empire, Remus settled into a quiet life and remarried; he died in Covington, Kentucky, two days after suffering a stroke) {https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14415008&ref=acom}
