Evening star., 1927-11-26
state RESTS CASE
AGAINST REMUS
Defense Calls First Witness.
AIieniSts Say Prisoner
Is Sane.

By the Associated Press
CINCINNATI. Ohio, November 2s.
The state today concluded it's di-
rect case against George Remus. on
trial for his life for Staying his wife,
imogene. and, with an hour and 10
minutes of the court session left, the
first witness was called for the de-
fendant
He was Leo A. Burke. n Cincinnati
attorney, who represented Remus at
various times during the last several
months.
Immediately upon Charles p. Taft's
II, declaring the State had completed
it's direct case. Charles II. EIston, CO.
counsel with Remus, who acts as his
own chief counsel. leaped up with the
motion usual in such eases. one for a
directed verdict of not guilty.
Motion Is Denied
1t was denied by Judge Chester l..
Shook
Elston next moved To- have much OF
the States evidence stricken. He as.
serted that the State had failed TO
prove that Remus acted as an agent Of
a fCur-Sidcd conspiracy when he shot
his wife. The State maintained that it
had proven at least part of its con-
spiraCy charge.
Judge Shook reserved decision upon
that point.
Elston moved that the three alien.
lists who just previously had reported
officially Remus was sane when he
shot Mrs. Remus October 6 last and
was sane now, be removed from the
judicial dais. They took seats there.
just back of the judge. a few days
ago.
Remus was sane when he killed his
wife here October 6. last. and is sane
now as he is on trial for murder. the
three alienists appointed by Judge
Shook reported.
The report was provisional. the
psychiatrists asserted, and was based
upon Interrogation of Remus and
observation of him in the courtroom
since the trial started November IA.
1t might be changed later. they said.
The report was not read to the
jury. Judge Shook asserted that he
accepted it at this time for his own
guidance. Had it found Remus in
sane. Remus would not have been
permitted to continue as his own
chief of counsel, the court asserted
from the bench.
The prosecution enjoyed it's great
est day yesterday. according to the
IOuT young iIlcIl dGHliuuI1S tire lilI
of the former Chicago lawyer who
became the millionaire king of boot
leggers."
Testimony Is Damaging.
The prosecution reached right into
the Remus S750,000 Price Hill Man.
sion for it's most damaging testi-
mony, while another who bears the
name Remus gave testimony which
visibly affected some members Of the
jury.
From Remus' own sister, Mrs.
Gabriel Ryerson. who for six months
has lived in the Remus home, the
prosecution got the information that
she had feared something would hap
pen when Remus left home just be-
fore he shot his wife.
There came also an admission that
her first information Remus had fired
the fatal bullet came indirectly
through Blanche Watson, secretary
to Remus.
Miss Watson. George Klug. driver
of the automobile in which Remus
rode to waylay his wife, and George
Connors. also affiliated with Remus,
were named by the State as conspira-
tors with Remus in planning the
Staying.
The climax of the states case was
reached on the testimony of Remus
adopted daughter Ruth. daughter of
Mrs. Remus by former marriage.
Makes Pitifui Spectacle.
| The slim. 20-year-old brunette.
| petite, even in deep mourning, made
| a pitiful spectacle as she testified
against the man who gave her his
| name, only in the end to orphan her.
| Throughout her hours on the witness
stand she sobbed violently and re-
| peatedly seemed on the verge of
! fainting.
Her description of the automobile
! chase before Remus cornered the taxi
| cab in which she and her mother rode.
Remus' conduct as he confronted the
wife, who was en- route to divorce
him; the shooting and final death
scene came in barely audible tones as
her frame was racked with sobs.
Throughout it all the jury hung
upon every word of her story. No
tears dropped in the jury box. but the
baby" of the jury. herself just q
years old. displayed deep sympathy
with the two-years-younger witness.