New Britain herald., 1927-12-07
REMUS C0LLAPSES AND JURORS WEEP. Court Hears How Wife Planned
 Defendants Death DAUGHTER IN HYSTERICS
Confcsses that Imogcne Hired Him to Slay Her Husband in Hotel and Promised to Pay Him $5,OO0.

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 Cincinnati, Dec. ' R-George Re mus was in such q condition of pros tration 30 minutes after his hyster- ical outburst in court today, accord ing to report brought back from the jail, that court had to be ad- journed until 2 p. m.
 Engaged to Slay Remus
 Truesdale's story of his engage ment 10 slay Remus and his efforts 10 find Remus alone to kill him was blood d-curdling. He narrated 1t in a well-practiced way, and in such a low voice that parts of his testimony had to be read to the jury by the court reporter. IL lost none of it's effectiveness in being twice told.
 Mrs. Remus promised him $5,oO0 be forthcoming from Franklin l.. Dodge. Jr., of Lansing, Mich, for mer department or justice agent, who obtained the conviction which sent Remus to a federal peniten- tiary and who then, according to Remus' plea. began an association with Mrs. Remus.
 Marcus previously had been nam cd as the instigator or o-between in 9 plot to have Remus killed by Egan's rat gangsters in the St. Louis, Mo-. jail
 Paid Him S250 Down
 Tn the subsequent negotiations with Airs. Remus after Truesdale undertook to slay Remus, lie testi- fled, Mrs. Remus made him an original payment of s250 for ex- penses.
 Marcus first asked him if he wish cd to make some money, Truesdale testified, and upon an assent told him s10,QOo would be paid for slay- ing a man. Later Remus was point ed to as the victim -to-be.
 -Four or five days later Marcus took me to see Mrs. Remus." testi- fled Truesdale. "She would not see me right away. 1 went back the next day. l told her ] wanted some secur- ity or surety Of some kind. She wouldn't give me none. She said she would give me s5.00O and another person would give me s5,00O. l asked her who this other party was. and she said a man named Franklin Dodge.
 She said she wished somebody would beat Remus' brains out. ] asked her would it mean thousands to her, and she said it would mean more than thousands.
 "She wouldn't give me no security or nothing. She said l would be paid the next day.
 She told me Mir Remus stayed in the Sinton hotel She told me his room number. S27, I believe.
 "I followed him several times. Twice I sat in a chair outside his room in the hall.
 T planned to kill him in his room but there always was too many peo- pie about"
 Remus In Mysteries
 It was at that point that Remus and his daughter, Romola. gave way to tears and then mysteries.
 Charles H. Elston, co-counsel with 3cmus, and George Connors. former lieutenant in chief' to Remus when the defendant was the "king of boot leggers,' hurried up stairs to Remus' jail cell to attend him.
 They were followed closely bv Doctors E. A. Baber and David l. Wolstein, two of the three court alienists who will pass on Rcmus' mental status. They already have rendered a tentative report that Remus was sane when he shot his wife and sane now.
 Jury Is Crying
 As the twelve jurors and the spare juror carried in Ohio cases filed from the courtroom there was hard ly a dry eye amongst them. Mrs. Anna Kicking, 5S year old jury wo- man, was shaking with sobs.
 Remus' breakdown was so nearly that he had to be taken to the jail to regain his composure.
 Truesdale, a gigantic. clean look ing youth, calmly detailed the terms of the staying plot and the arrange ments for him to do away with the defendant
 He said that he finally told Remus of the plan on the afternoon of Oct. } last Tho next morning Remus ran his wife down in Eden park here and shot her to death as she was en route to divorce court.
 Truesdale testified that he first saw Remus at the Springdale dog racing track, where he was pointed out by John Marcus.