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Elston, who had won Wrassman's freedom. Remus and Franklin Dodge to kill the bootlegger earlier had heard about Elston from Wrassman while they that year. He was to have been paid $10,000 -- were both in the Hamilton County jail. including $5,000 in advance. Marcus and Wrassman weren't the only Tuesdale stunned the courtroom when he links to Little Chicago as the tnal unfolded. A said that he had told George Remus of the plot the Hamiltonian supplied the most sensational afternoon of Oct. 5 — less than 24 hours before testimony during the trial Also, residents of Little Imogene was shot in Eden Park. Chicago soon learned that the violence that ended The hired gunman said he first saw George the Remus marnage could easily have happened in Remus at the Springdale Dog Racing Track on Butler County. Dixie Highway in Fairfield Township in Butler Harry Truesdale was relatively unknown in County (see page 11). Little Chicago when he took the witness stand Remus was pointed out by John Marcus, Wednesday morning, Dec. 7, 1927. He claimed who, the said, had been identified Hamilton as his home, giving an address on South as "the instigator or go-between in a plot to have E Street on the West Side. Remus killed by Egan's Rats," a gangster mob that Hamilton police said he had no criminal operated in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas. record in the city. The Journal said it had learned In testimony the next day, Truesdale said he had "dabbed in punchboard sales, slot machine Mrs. Remus and Dodge accompanied him to sales, petty gambling and other 'occupations' known Hamilton, where George Remus was believed to be as 'rackets.' " staying in a hotel. Truesdale said he was sent into a On the stand, Truesdale admitted that he hotel to check the register for a man named Myers, had been a hired gunman — and that his target was but didn't find an entry. supposed to be George Remus. He told the shocked Mrs. Remus then left her limousme to courtroom he had been hired by Imogene Remus check the hotel register for handwriting matching her husband’s. They remained across the street from the hotel until after midnight, but George Remus never appeared.

Truesdale — who said he had never killed

anyone — said "the reason I didn't do it was because I was afraid I'd be double-crossed." Despite his admission of a 30-day hunt for Remus, authorities said there was no Ohio law that would permit prosecution of Truesdale.

Tuesday, Dec. 20, the jury of two women and 10 men returned a verdict of "not guilty on the sole ground of insanity." Dec. 30 Judge William H. Luegers found Remus insane and ordered him to the Lima State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. Remus entered the hospital Jan. 6, 1928, but continued his fight for freedom. By a 4-3 vote, the Ohio Supreme Court ordered his release June 19, 1928. He returned to Cincinnati, most of his money gone, and opened a real estate office in a downtown building.

The former had been promoted as a patriotic "king of the bootleggers" was endeavor during World War I, as shown residing on Greenup Street in Covington, Ky., when in this 1918 dry advertisement. he died Sunday, Jan. 20, 1952, at the age of 78.