Show He Built A Golden God And It Destroyed Him ii T T y- y 5 q J i q d C r C I i im S 2 o GEORGE REMUS AT THE LEFT PHOTOGRAPHED WITH DE DETECTIVES AFTER HE HAD SEEN BEEN ARRESTED EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE George Remus of Cincinnati was called the of the bootleggers Starting with a capital of he built It up to more than In his career he had gross sales ales of more than he paid in graft to various officers officers cers he employed people and handled some gallons of whisky Today he Is under arrest for the murder murder- of hs wife and nd this story printed In the Cincinnati Post expresses perfectly the strange fantastic tragedy of his life Because it does express this so well we weare are reprinting it here By ALFRED SEGAL Editorial Writer The Cincinnati Post CINCINNATI CINCINNATI Oct 10 George George Hemus Remus most miserable of oC million million- millionaires v aires alres has come to an like Ibsen-like end Charged with murder he sits in his cell ceIl symbol of ot the futility of ot riches without character Poor little man Everything E he touched umed to- to gold and ti the gold the gold became b came a corruption conniption that destroyed him It Qt red his home and destroyed and destroyed it mind JI with a aD di s h t ts sent cent s nt him on his bis errand of ot murder A pathetic clown that went about slapping at society in the end ho he was dreadfully dread Cully slapped himself and now lies crushed and bleeding S A poor lawyer from Crom Chicago he lIe loomed suddenly on the hori honi- horizon zon son of oC Cincinnati a glittering figure fi ure on the street giving tips to newsboys On the doorstep of the building he had for his office he be vaunted his lila name in colored tiles lie He bought a II great greot house bouse and filled tilled it with tawdry splendor Ho lie built a Roman bath thinking to make a great plash in the city with a luxury that was not in the home of ot even Cincinnati's wealthiest Surely Sure h he thought such display must lift lItt him to a high place in the community Is not money the god before beCore which all tho world bows Ho lie wanted respectability and the May music festivals and the symphonies found him and his wife in choice seats But Dut people only laughed at him though it was to weep at the pathetic little man who was like one in a golden ship floundering about without a compass More than a score of or corrupted policemen went to prison and hundreds of oC other men seeking to imitate this most absurd ot of men fell tell likewise to destruction When the law seized him and convicted him of oC felonies he had even then no sense of ot the creeping destruction Money was power Money would save savo him It had lifted him from Crom obscurity and had given him the tho Roman bath and the tue luxury that filled his house But money only postponed the day In the end he went to prison And when he was out of oC this prison he was flung into another lie He had bedecked his wife wiro with silks and jewels that sh she might shine In that lofty place place where here his money was to lift iet her But when he lIe h came at length from prison she was one from him lie Ho heard h ard that it was even one who had helped to place him in prison who had taken her Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad and the tho yellow god that Remus nemus had erected was not through with him In wild fury tury he went vent ent about the country pursuing his wife The wealth he had spent to glorify her he now spent to pursue her So until that moment yesterday esterday when the pursuit ended and he killed her |