The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-06
REMUS YELLS
DEFIANCE 1SS
TRIAL JUDGE
DareS JuriSt to Cite Him for
Contempt After Order
to Quiet Slayer.
HUSHED BY DEPUTIES
sit Down. Bellows JurIst;
you Can't Make Me-
Reply of Rum King.
HUSHED BY DEPUTIES
BY PAUL w. WHITE
Omitted Press Stan Correspondent

COURTROOM, CINCINNATI,
Dec. 6.-George Remus arose today
to voice an objection, and before
he finally was Stilled he told court
officers that they could not quiet
him and that it was the privilege
of Judge Chester r. Shook, if he
chose, to declare him In contempt
of court.
The outburst developed after
Walter K. Sibbald, assistant prose-
cutor, had asked George Conners,
defense witness, a comparatively
unimportant question on cross-ex-
animation.
Sibbald asked concerning the "St.
Louis crowd" and holdings in the
Jack Daniels distillery there.
"That question is not predicated
upon facts, your honor" Remus OBJ
jected.
Sibbald then pointed out that In
his opinion Remus was giving evi-
dence Off the witness stand. Re
mus, on trial charged with the muir
der of his wife, Imogene, has an
nounced he would not testify in his
own behalf.
Ordered to Sit Down
''Your Lcnor I have tried cases
throughout tie country and assured
Iy know how to couch objections"
RemuS roared.
"Sit down." beloved the court
''I have warned you for the last
time. I will cite you In contempt
of court"
The judge angrily turned the
pages of a law book.
'"That is your privilege, your hon
or" said Remus.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Anderson and
two court deputies were converging
upon the embattled defendal t. His
daughter Romola was pulling on his
coat sleeve.
"Quiet, George, quiet" the sher-
If cried, and then to. the deputies:
"Sit him down. Hush him up."
Daughter Is In Court
'My life is at stake here" bel
lowed Remus. "You or nobody like
you can quiet me. I tell you I'm
the one on trial."
Miss Romola Remus, 24-year-old
daughter of the defendant by an
earlier marriage, sat by her father
at the counsel table. She was
wearing black, save for the brow1
fur on her coat and the slender gold
trimming on her hat.
The State tried to show through
Corners that during the Jack
Daniels investigation he had gone
to st. Louis to persuade gunner to
'Iay off" Remus.
Conners would not say, however,
that he promised Remus would not
testify for the Government if he
was paid $460,o00 allegedly owed
him in connection with the dis
tillery.
Feared Trial in City
Conners repeated that his friend
was in dread before the Daniels trial
at Indianapolis.
isn't it fact" asked Sibbald,
shat while Remus was in Indian
apolis, he was seen in public
restaurants and jauntily swinging
his cane along the streets?"
''No, he ate in the hotel dining
room sometimes, but I never saw
him swinging his cane jauntily,"
the witness replied.
He reiterated his charge, made
in direct testimony, that one night
Franklin L. Dodge Jr., former dry
agent, had "skated' away from
Remus and that the latter had run
after the man he accuses of steal
ing his wife's affections.
'Did you ever hear Remus say he
would kill his wife?" Sibbald
wanted to know.
That's a Ie," said Conners. ''No,
Of course not"
Denies Hearing Threats
"Did you ever hear him say over
the telephone that he would wreck
his wife physically, mentally, f1nan-
cially and run her in the gutter with
every thred Of her reputation gone,
and that she would die in a pauper's
grave?"
mo"
Corners explained he "listened in
on an extension instrument when
Remus and his wife talked over the
telephone ito save him from a
trap"
Luncheon recess was taken at this
point.