Word: remus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Cincinnati, the paradise of booze, bootleggers and the home of Remus, will black both their eyes by voting against Willis. But "we love Willis because of the enemies he has made...
...people who like to argue subtle questions, an event last week at Lima, Ohio, furnished ideal debate. The ques-tions suggested were: Can a madman be heroic? Can a hero be mad? The event was this: George Remus, one-time Illinois lawyer, then millionaire Ohio bootlegger, then convict, then insensate wife-murderer, who was judged guiltless but mentally insecure in Cincinnati (TIME, Jan. 2), and who was confined in the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Lima -this man heard muffled cries in the asylum. A huge, lunatic Negro had over- powered one of the guards and .was deliberately...
Asked what he considered possible remedies for the present much-bruited "crime wave", he replied. "The fundamental problem lies in the attitude of the public, the newspapers, and state legislatures. After a vicious and cruel underworld character, like Remus, kills his wife brutally and in cold blood, the man in the street says, 'she got what she deserves...
...Remus should have been electrocuted, but if his acquittal produces in Ohio and elsewhere a substantial impulse toward better criminal procedure, he will in spite of himself have done something to counterbalance the blow which he placed on the fair name of Cincinnati...