Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

Later he made a number of forays into the corporate world all of which failed from his lack of business acumen. In 1944 he left to become chairman of the Diebold Corporation a security safe company based in Ohio. Ness's aEliot Nesss were scattered in one of the small ponds on the grounds of Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.