Imogene was in her late twenties when she divorced her first husband, Albert W. Holmes. The couple had one daughter, Ruth Holmes, who lived with her mother in Evanston (on the north side of Chicago's city line).

Imogene was an attractive woman who worked in a Chicago delicatessen to help support herself and her daughter.
It was in this very delicatessen that she would meet "George Remus". He would go to purchase his groceries there, often purchasing the groceries earlier in the day and then leave them there for the delicatessen to hold, returning to pick them up later in the day and then remain to talk to Imogene for an extended time. Imogene had an animated personality and George was very taken with her.

After Imogene's divorce from Albert was final, George Remus, intensified his pursuit of her by showering her with gifts, etc. Eventually Imogene went to work for George Remus as his secretary in his law practice. The relationship became increasing more personal, eventually leading to the divorce of George Remus and his first wife, Lillian.

George eventually closed his law practice, liquidated his assets and went into the illegal bootlegging business. Chicago's illegal bootlegging trade was already divided up among the more notorious gang leaders of Chicago, so Remus decided that the best place for him to move his bootlegging business was to Cincinnati, Ohio.
Not wanting to leave without Imogene, he asked her to marry him. She agreed and both Imogene and her daughter Ruth moved to Ohio with Remus.
They were married on June 25, 1920 in Newport, Kentucky (across the river from Cincinnati, OH)

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GEORGE REMUS SHOOTS WIFE

One Time "Bootleg King" Gives Self Up at Police Station.

CINCINNATI, OHIO, Oct. 6. -

Mrs. Imogene Remus, died in a hospital here today from a bullet wound inflicted by her husband, George Remus, once "king of bootleggers," a few hours before her suit for divorce was to have been heard.

Mrs. Remus was enroute in a taxicab to the office of her attorney for a conference regarding her suit for divorce due for a hearing today when she encountered Remus in another car in a park. Remus followed her and becoming alarmed, she jumped from her taxi when traffic slowed her progress and started to run.

Remus sprang from his machine and grabbed her. Pressing a revolver to her abdomen he fired one shot. Mrs. Remus screams attracted other motorists who took her to the hospital where she died a few minutes after an operation was performed.

(Newspaper info provided by F.A.G. contributor 47395868)