Word: remus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worst type of criminal in the United States today is one like George Remus", were the words of C. P. Taft II, in an interview last night with the CRIMSON, after he had spoken to a capacity audience at ford Hall on "Crime and Its Treatment". "He is a murderer, a bootlegger, and in every way a vicious criminal. He should have been electrocuted without any question, and not have been allowed to escape the chair under the plea of insanity...
...conduct that have their roots in her emotional abnormality," glibly states her lawyer in his plea for elemency. It is said that the defence of young Hickman will be virtually the same, in his instance the abnormality being sadism. These two cases, together with the shocking acquittal of bootlegger Remus, seem a perfect justification of Governor Smith's plan for a board of criminologists and psychiatrists who might make disposal of all convicted criminals. It would remove the perplexing scientific problems from the hands of ignorant juries, and yet the dangerous tendency towards leniency would persist as the experts became...
...jurors were so touched by Defendant Remus's description of how he spent last Christmas in prison that they petitioned to have him set free at once without waiting for the test, required by law, to see if he was sane enough to be at large. Refusal of this petition did not daunt Mr. Remus. He received kisses and congratulations from the jurors in his cell and hysterically pledged the rest of his life to "stifling the insult which is upon our statutes known as the National Prohibition...
Shapespeare or Pirandello might have invented such a performance, but it was more than most observers could stomach. Since Mr. Remus had come to Cincinnati from Chicago...
...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...