The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-30
Long Distance Phone Call
by St. Louis Reporter
Warned Rum King.
GANGSTERs AT HOTEL
Prosecutor of Daniels Case
Is Witness at Trial Of
Wife Killer. II
BY PAUL w. WHITE
United Press STAFF Correspondent

United Press STAFF Correspondent
COURTROOM, Cincinnati, Nov.
30&Testimony relating to an al
legged plot against the life of George
Remus at the time he was in Indi-
annapolis to give evidence in the Jack
Daniels liquor conspiracy was in
troduced today at the trial of Re-
mus on a charge of numbering his
wife, Imogene.
John B. Marshall, who prosecuted
the Daniels distillery case, came
here from his present home in
Juneau, Alaska, to testify concern
ing the plot.
Marshall said he received a long,
distance telephone call from John
T. Rogers, reporter for the st. Louis
Post-Dispatcn, in which the latter
told of having heard of such con-
spiracy.
Marshall was in the. ClaypooI
Hotel at Indianapolis at the time
and he gave Remus the substance
of the telephone conversation.
The next day, the witness said, he
accompanied Remus to the railroad
station so that the latter could re-
turn to Cincinnati
Gangsters in ClaypOOI
did Remus seem to recognize any
man in the hotel lobby the morning
after you had received the call from
RogerS?" Elston asked! ~
Eyes, Remus told me one of q
group of men was, a Chicago
gangster by the name of Mullen"
what did Remus say and do
when he received the report of a
plot?"
"He didn't consider it a serious
matter He insisted he would go on
to Cincinnati. g
What did he say when he saw
the men in the lobby?"
"He said he thought there might
be something to it,"
Followed to Depot
Remus then went to the station,
Marshall reiterated, and when he
reached there he saw three of the
men who previously had been in the
hotel
WAS Mullen among them?" FL
ston pursued.
"He was"
Another man named ONeil, who
had been convicted of burglary or
robbery, also was in the trio,
Marshall went on
WAS ONeil reputeed to be a
st. Louis gunman?" Elston wanted
to know
Marshall was permitted an affir-
NATIVE answer.
WAS Remus' attention directed
to the men at the station?" Elston
asked.
Eyes, after seeing them Remus
returned to the hotel"
who did Remus say he thought
was responsible for the plotp"
"He named Mrs. Remus and
Franklin Dodge"
did he make any statement as to
the amount Of money to be paid
by Mrs. Remus and Dodge for his
life?"
mot that I recall"
Hidden in Apartment
Marshall secreted Remus in an
Indianapolis apartment house dur
ing the trial, he went on, and called
upon Remus one day to find him "in
an agitated condition, pacing the
floor, first wringing his hands and
then raising them above his head,
the while his face was strangely
flushed"
did you ever have a conversation
with Remus relative to fixing of his
bond at $4,000 in st. Louis in con-
nection with the Jack Daniels
case?"
Eyes. told him it had been fixed
at that amount upon recommended
ton of a prohibition agent named
Henson, who had talked with Mrs.
Remus The latter told Henson
she had received a letter from her
husband in Atlanta penitentiary in
which she was asked to release cash
on his property so he could get out
of the country"
Did the government at any time
give Mrs. Remus a weapon to de-
fend herself?" Elston asked.
The state objected and was
sustained.
Question Caretaker
William Mueller, the stolid care
taker at the George Remus mansion
on Price Hill, was recalled to the
witness stand for cross examination.
Taft, after an attempt to break
down the caretaker's testimony of
yesterday when he said he saw
Franklin L. Dodge, Jr., at the Re-
mus home three times while the
owner was in Atlanta penitentiary
serving sentence for bootlegging.
questioned Mueller as to the Remus
palace which was stripped of its
costly furnishings while the multi
millionaire bootlegger was in prison.
Don't you know for a fact the
furniture was removed by Mrs. Re-
mus on her husbands order2" Taft
asked.
mo-" said Mueller.
Don't you know the statuary was
sent to his daughter Romola?"
well, read about it in the pa