Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America (25 page)

An Anglo-American crew of rumrunners under arrest, posing with Prohibition agents. The top section of this composite photo shows their two-masted British schooner. (National Archives)

Coast guardsmen survey their latest capture in New York harbor, gunnysack-stitched whiskey bottles, like “the real McCoy,” while thirsty citizens look on. (National Archives)

In Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a customs agent displays a long submarine cable used to pipe whiskey from Canada to the United States. (National Archives)

Prohibition agents breaking up New York’s largest whiskey still (1927). (National Archives)

Inside the Remus mansion, Remus and guests pose for a photograph before a dinner given to celebrate completion of the $100,000 swimming pool. Remus is seated at the head of the table. Imogene is standing at his right. Stepdaughter Ruth is standing to his left with her arms around George’s shoulders. His sister is seated at his left.
(Jack Doll/Delhi Historical Society)

George Remus behind bars in 1924. Remus sold $75 million worth of liquor in a two-year period. At the same time he was said to have spent $20 million to pay off various federal, state, and local officials for their silence. Eventually arrested and prosecuted, he served five sentences for liquor law violations.
(Jack Doll/Delhi Historical Society)

George Remus.
(Jack Doll/Delhi Historical Society)

The former Imogene Holmes, Remus’s second wife. (Jack Doll/Delhi Historical Society)

Remus’s adopted daughter, Ruth. She was nineteen at the time of the murder trial. (Jack Doll/Delhi Historical Society)

Al Capone. (National Archives)

Free soup kitchen in Chicago, paid for by Al Capone (1930). (National Archives)

Prohibition agents smashing up a bar just prior to the end of Prohibition.(National Archives)