New Britain herald., 1927-12-10
STATE ID ATTEMPT
 REMUS REbUTTAL
Seeks to Show Slain Wife as
 Abused Woman
tBy PAUL ". WHITE) (C. l.. Staff Correspondent) )


 Cincinnati. Ohio, Dec. 10 UP)- A picture of George Eumus as not insan" but bal tempered; d picture of Mrs. lmogene Rcmus, whom he wife but woman cruelty treated those were the portraits the state expected To present the jury as re- buttal testimony continued today.
 Although the Remus defense was solely that of transitory insa nifty tn. prosecution has assumed the burden of removing the impression left by his witnesses in their dcscrip- tions of Mrs. Remus as one who loved another man and conspired with him 10 TOD her husband.
 In defending Mrs. Remus the state automatically will defend Franklin l.. Dodge, Jr, former department Of justice operative named by Remus as the other man."
 Thus with three fold objective th" rcbuttal may consume an entire week unless Judge Chester R. Shook decides upon longer sessions of court. He announced that if II appeared the trial would encroach upon Christmas he might consent to night sessions.
 The first witness in rebuttal de ricted both Mrs. Remus and her husband in a new light.
 She was Mrs Elizabeth Felix, wife of a building contracto of Bir- mingham. Ala. she was almost a constant companion of Mrs. Remus in Atlanta when the latter lived there while Remus was serving a sentence in the federal penitcntiary for violation of tho dry laws.
 Mrs. Felix described two visits in the company of Mrs. Remus to the | bootleggers mansion here in June oi 1926. She spoke of Rcmus as ar angry. red faced man who recov. 1 cred his disposition after she hat ] complimented him as mighty nice { looking
 She said he had been made angr! when she told him he was as much 10 blame as his wife for the rift 1r their domestic affairs. She recalled one incident when Mrs. Remus wa, driven, crying, from the peniten- tiary while visiting her husband.
 The witness pictured Remus as 6 man who in one minute said that all the money in the world was not worth one hour Of penal servitude' and in the next minute announced 1 calmly he would kill Dodge.
 Mrs. Felix won the court room with her contagious smile and , southern accent. The following tes. timony, with County Prosecutor i Charles P. Taft. Ii, examining tht ] witness, probably was the most hu, man of the trial.
 T suggested that he kiss his wife I good bye, he did kiss her but 4 wasn't such very nice kiss So asked him if he couldn't do any bet. ter. I told him if he couldn't kiss 1 his wifi" any better than that it Va: no wonder she left him. So he kiss 1 ed her aGan.
 | llll l' no b|lttI, alt dShtu. "Ycs sir"
 i Remus sclf-consciousiv shuffle6 papers. Another high point in thf testimony was reached when Taf as"kd suddenly;
 Was Mrs. Nemus in love witt her husband"
 "Ycs sir said the witness s' promptly and decisively that Charle' H. ElSton, co-counsel for defense made his objection helatedly. I'm ! answer then was stricken out. Gu of th" records, that is: not out of tn minds of the jurors. though for ?, court days have been wonderin, what was the right answer 10 tha question.
 Mrs Felix will go to the witnes stand agam today for further direc examination.