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Document 264406

GEORGE REMUS. Partly Printed Promissory Note signed: "George A. Irvine", endorsed on verso: "George Remus", 1p, 7¾x3½. Chicago, 1919 June 1. In part: "Ninety days after date, for value received, I promise to pay to the order of William H. Zander Two Hundred fifty and no/100 Dollars...." Lightly creased, soiled and stained. 1-inch tear at top edge touches some text (all intact). File notes on both sides (unknown hand). With another Partly Printed Promissory Note signed: "W.H. Jordan", 1p, 8¼x3½. Chicago, 1916 January 28. In part: "I promise to pay to the order of George Remus Eighty and 75/100 Dollars...." Notes on verso in unidentified hand. Soiled, worn, creased, lightly stained. Mid-vertical fold with tape remnants. On October 6, 1927, in Cincinnati, George Remus (1874-1952), one of the most successful bootleggers in Prohibition-era America, shot and killed his wife, socialite Imogene Remus, and turned himself in to the police. Acting as his own attorney, Remus, who had moved to Cincinnati from Chicago in 1921, pleaded not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. The prosecuting attorney was Charles P. Taft, youngest child of the then-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Remus was found not guilty by reason of insanity, sent to a mental hospital, declared sane within a few months and freed. His autograph is rare in any form. Two items.

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