Word: leggers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...fisticuffing George Remus, fresh from Atlanta penitentiary for grand scale bootlegging, was on trial last week in Cincinnati for killing his wife. His prosecutor was burly, 190-lb., onetime footballer Charles Phelps Taft, second son of the Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (TIME, Oct. 24). 'Legger Remus' defense counsel was himself. Frenzied under the double strain of standing trial for his life and planning his own defense, 'Legger Remus made a scene...
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...