Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-11
STAR WITNESS
FOR REMUS IS
TAKEN In TOLLS

CINCINNATI, Dec. 10 R-Tndict..
ment for perjury of John S. Berger,
rich Los Angeles exposition promoter,
and self-styled "star witness" for
George Remus, his boyhood friend,
was today's outstanding development
in connection with the murder trial
of the former 'king of bootleggers."
Berger was released on $4,000 bond
and his arraignment set for next
Monday.
He was seized ct a hotel just a
few minutes before he was to have
boarded a train for home. A sealed
Indictment was returned by the grand
jury today and Bergers arrest came
within few minutes, verifying
rumors that had swept the court room
since he testified week ago.
The indictment was 1000 words
long, but it dealt specifically with
Berger's testimony that at st. Louis
he had not requested Mrs. Remus,
for whose Staying here two months
ago Remus is on trial, to give him
$4,000 for Remus, and that he had
not described the defendant as at
that time "broke."
The indictment took no cognizance
of Berger's dramatic descriptions Of
RemuS' reactions to tales of Mrs.
Remus' alleged misconduct poured
into his ear. Berger vividly pictured
Rennus in insane outSursts in ST.
Louis, Indianapolis and Cincinnati.
Berger accepted his arrest, he said
as spite work by Charles P. Tart H.
Hamilton county prosecutor, but Mr.
Taft in turn pointed to the indict-
ment as in line with the precedents
of his department He asserted that
the grand jury still was investigating.
"I knew this was coming and I
remained in Cincinnati to meet it"
said Berger. "This is the work of
Franklin L. Dodge Jr:s At the proper
tine shall prove that my testimony
was true I was the star witness
for Remus and this is an effort of
the prosecution to break down my
testimony and to intimidate other
witnesses"
Today's four nour session Of the
murder trial developed but little of
interest. The testimony of four wit
nesses was interrupted frequently by
arguments of counsel or whispered
conferences at Judge Chester H.
Shocks dais.
Mrs. Elizabeth Felix, of Birming-
ham, Alabama, formerly of Atlanta,
Ca, who became intimately acquaint-
ed with Mrs. Remus while the de-
fendant's wife lived neSr the FEDERAL
peYitentiary which then housed her
husband, said that Mrs Remus during
that time seemed to pe snort OF
funds. Remus, as his own chief of
counsel, violently objected, asserting
that it had been proven that Mrs.
Remus had hundreds of thousands
of dollars at her control and that if
she had made a display of depleted
finances it was pose.
Mrs. Felix testified that, despite
angry outbursts by Remus, she re-
garded his as "sane, entirely sane"
Much of her testimony dealt with
Mrs. Renus' alleged association with
Dodge, former department of justice
agent, who convicted Remus and sent
him to prison.
She asserted that Mrs. Remus had
given Dodge a large roll of bills
once for expenses on an errand which
Remus had instructed his wife to
entrust to him Mrs. Felix under
cross examination admitted that yes
terday she stated that Reml.- had
flown into a | rage upon hearing
Dodge's name mentioned and had
threatened to kill him.
Mrs. Felix admitted she first heard
Mrs. Remus speak of divorcing Remus
a full year before her suit was filed
ans while Remus still was a federal
convict.
Prosecutor Taft said tonight that
next Mondays witnesses would fnot
include Dodge, Ruth Remus, the slain
Womans 20 year old daughter, nor
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