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George Remus came to the U. S. from Germany at the age of four. He made himself a lawyer, specializing in divorce cases and defense of gangsters. Then he took up the bootlegging racket in Cincinnati, became the richest U. S. 'legger, built himself a $1,000,000 mansion with a Grecian swimming pool, murdered his wife, Imogene. He conducted his own defense, insulted Prosecutor Charles Phelps Taft II in court, was found not guilty of murder on grounds of insanity (TIME...
...prosecution chief said. The prosecution chief was Charles Phelps Taft II, Prosecuting Attorney of Hamilton County, son of the Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. It had been his first case of nationwide prominence and during it he had constantly been baited, badgered, insulted by Lawyer-'Legger Remus...
Prosecutor Taft made a reference to 'Legger Remus' disbarment as a lawyer in Illinois. 'Legger Remus interrupted: "That is a nice statement by the son of the Chief Justice, if the court please. ... He knows that only the record is admissible in this court of law or in any other court of law, not alone in this country but in the Supreme Court of which this young man's father is the Lord High Chief Justice. And it has been the pleasure of this defendant to appear before that High Chief Justice! But the performance given...
...Five hundred judges and members of the Chicago bar have volunteered to come down here as character witnesses," 'Legger Remus shrieked. "And just because the son of the Chief Justice in this wonderful United States makes that kind of an assertion-Man, if I had you in the corridor I would WRECK you physically...
Prosecutor Taft, towering "offshoot," scowled. The sheriff quieted 'Legger Remus. The trial continued...