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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...
...preliminaries of a murder trial began last week in Cincinnati. For George Remus, once potent bootleg boss, later a convict, they were poison. They had shot dead his wife, Emogene, in a public park. Now he had to produce evidence that it was not first-degree murder. He sought to take depositions from 75 witnesses in various cities- including Attorney General Sargent and Roy A. Haynes- to show that he had killed to elude a plot against his own life and property. For another man, 'Legger Remus preliminaries were meat. He, Charles Phelps Taft II, lanky...
Freed last week, Mr. Remus pondered a pending U. S. Government suit to deport him as an undesirable alien. He is a native of Germany...
...George Remus, onetime bootlegger king. Mr. Remus, clad in white coat, white apron, Palm Beach pants, celebrated the last day of his sentence by personally serving fare more elaborate than the regular prison diet. It was Mr. Remus' third banquet in his 30 days in jail...
...prison and five jails have lodged "Uncle" Remus since his 1924 conviction on bootlegging charges. From headquarters at Death Valley Farm, near Cincinnati, he purchased four distilleries, organized a caravan of liquor-laden motor trucks, distributed whiskeys to bootleggers. Reputed to have made $5,000,000, he built an ornate, swimming-pooled home in Cincinnati. The Death Valley headquarters were raided in 1921; three years later he was en route to Atlanta...