Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Burly, 200-lb., 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...
...Prosecutor Taft, towering "offshoot," scowled. The sheriff quieted 'Legger Remus. The trial continued...
...bags of bones that had once been horses, and an old hack, were his first professional property. He became Topeka's favorite hackman. Between calls he studied law, and gained admission to the bar at 21. At 24, he was elected county prosecutor and, when the Kansans denied themselves alcohol, he had to close up the Topeka saloons. His saloon-closing performance sent him to the Legislature. Thence he reached Congress, in 1893. He was a House member for 14 years, a Senator for three six-year terms thereafter...
...Warren T. McCray. Later both Indiana Senators asked that a parole be given the onetime Governor. Public sympathy mounted even higher when it was hinted that when indicted the Governor had refused a Klu Klux Klan offer of immunity in exchange for naming a certain candidate for public prosecutor; that he had named instead William H. Remy who then acted in the Governor's prosecution. This time public sympathy had effect; last week onetime (1921-24) Governor of Indiana Warren T. McCray, now convict 17746 in the Atlanta Penitentiary,* was granted a parole...