SALOON CAR TO GAOL. NEW YORK, Jan. 27 George Remus, the Bootlegger King of the Middle West, made a royal degress to gaol yesterday. After closing his Cincinnati palace with its golden door knobs and paying a £2,000 fine, he entered the drawingroom of his private railway coach with eleven confederates and under sympathetic police protection did the 500niile journey to the federal convict prison at Atlanta, Georgia, amid luxurious surroundings. On reaching Atlanta the coach was switched to the rails leading to the gaol entrance, where the company of bootleggers disembarked. They have to serve a sentence of two years and a half. Before leaving the private coach Remus dramatically changed from a pearl-grey suit and spats into prison garb, discarded his diamonds, .and presented his last silk shirt to a porter.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1924, Page 4
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133Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1924, Page 4
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