New Britain herald., 1927-12-03
WIFE AIMED GUN AT GEORGE REMUS
Bootleg Kings Friend Describes
 Revolver Episode
DISARMED HER, HE SAYS
George Corners Again Takes Stand in Sensational Trial in Effort to Prove Wife-SIaycr Was Insane at Time of Crime.

Courtroom, Cincinnati, Dec. { EP)-George Corners, henchman and friend of George Remus, re- : turned to the witness stand today and charged that Mrs Imogene Re- mus once threatened the life of her husband and started to draw re- l volver.
 Remus' defense against the 1 charge Of murdering his wife is ! that he was driven insane before : the killing, his mind becoming im- i paired because of the stories he 1 heard concerning Imogene and her "paramour" Franklin T.. Dodge, Jr., ] former department of justice opcr- | ative
 | The revolver episode took place 1 when Corners, Rcmus and others were out to the Price Hill mansion in the hope of effecting a settlement j between husband and wife.
 Mrs. Rcmus said: What are you people doing here? This is my 1 house." Corners related and Remus replied: You can stay here if you want to. I'll go to q hotel if you don't want me here"
 Would Not Settle
 It was explained 10 Mrs. Remus that q settlement was desired and she said, according to Corners, '1'll settle this myself"
 She opened her purse" the wit ness went on, and partly removed q pearl-handled revolver. l seized her and disa-med her. She was quite , hysterical and screamed He can't dc those things to me-
 'I tried to persuade her to set tie matters but she couldn't be talk ed to-
 Corners investigated a plot to xii Remus. in St. Louis, when cross -ex- i animation Charles H. Elstor started.
 He later communicated 10 Remus the Information that Mrs. Remus and Dodge had said $15,000 down tc have the former bootleg multi-mil. lionairo put out of the way" The money went to member ot the Eagan gang of St. Louis. Con. ners said he told Remus and Mrs Remus told the gangster that Con- ners also would have to be killed be- cause she said "I was an undercover man for the government"
 Rcscribcs Remus in Rage
 "Remus went into one of his rages and the only way I could control him was to tell him not to disgrace his sister who was with him at the time,' Corners testified.
 The next incident rccounted by Connors took place in Indianapolis when Rcmus was there to testify ir the Jack Daniels distillery case. | Remus heard his wife and Dodge had arrived in Indianapolis together The defendant then picked up g gun the government had given him and he had a terrible time trying tC control him."
 | Corners then told of a time ir May or June 1926, when tho i Remuses almost had strengthened out their tangled affairs.
 Mrs. Remus was to appear on q i Monday but didn't appear unti Thursday of that week. Meanwhile i Eemus had read a newspaper article saying Mrs. Remus was in Atlanta comforting with immigration officials relating to the deportation oi 1 Romus, who is the son Of German immigrant
 When the wife returned Remus accused her, Corners continued, and she said:
 Daddy l was down there trying to have it squashed."
 After that she ran out and with difficulty a raging Remus was re. strained from running after her, the witness testified.