The Watchman And Southron

REMUS TO
QUICK TRIAL
FOR MURDER

Bootleg King of Cincinnati
Asks For and Will Receive
Speedy Trial For Wife
Murder

Cincinnati, Oct. 9.--Before the end of another week George Remus, former bootlegger king, whose money mad dash over life's trails was dramatically climaxed last Thursday by the slaying of his wife, Imogene, may be making his last stand before a bar of justice.

Remus, whose adventurous career has made him intimate with jails and prisons, is again at the crossroads of the courts. One road of ominous aspect has at its far end the electric chair. Another is the endless trail of life imprisonment. While at the third, if the court so directs, lies freedom.

The speedy trial asked by Remus will be given, barring unforeseen difficulties. A grand jury to be impaneled tomorrow will have the Remus case before it probably Tuesday.

Coroner Fred Swing will conduct an inquest over the body of the estranged wife whom Remus shot fatally after trailing her through Eden park while she was on her way to her divorce proceedings against him.

An indictment will be returned, County Prosecutor Charles P. Taff said, about Thursday or Friday. Remus will be arraigned immediately, he added, and a date set for trial. The state will ask the death penalty.

Remus has been reticent regarding his defense. His friends say he will plead justifiable homicide but Remus remains silent. He has maintained a firm resolve to be his own attorney.

Four women have figured prominently in the fate of the adventurer, who made millions by violating the national prohibition law on the largest scale since prohibition became law.

Of greatest importance is the dead woman whom he loved but now accuses of betraying him to the federal officers and of being unfaithful to him while he was in Atlanta prison, robbing him of all his property and money and seeking to divorce him to marry Franklin L. Dodge, Jr., former prohibition agent, who was instrumental in Remus' conviction.

She was Mrs. Augustus Imogene Remus, to whom he referred for years as "my beautiful Imogene."

There is Miss Mary Chenoweth, a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal, who is attributed by newspaper legend to be the first reporter to uncover the inside workings of Remus' gigantic bootlegging business.

It was six years ago, June 28, 1921, that Miss Chenoweth got together the first story which appeared in any newspaper connecting the name of George Remus with the American bootleg operations. The story was an exposure of his Kentucky Drug company located at Covington, through which he withdrew 100,000 cases of whisky from Kentucky distilleries. Two weeks later a federal citation was issued naming Remus as head of the company.

Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant United States attorney general, was the woman government official who supervised the collection of evidence against Remus for the government.

Lastly, there was Mrs. Mary Hubbard, the government star witness against Remus. It was evidence supplied by her to federal officers that instigated a raid in 1922 of Death Valley farm near Cincinnati which resulted in the discovery of a large cache of whisky allegedly owned by Remus.

She turned to aid the government after her husband, employed by Remus, died mysteriously from poisoning.

Two other women figure in the case, but not so prominently in Remus adventures. They are a daughter by a former marriage, Ramola Remus of Chicago, and an adopted daughter, Ruth Remus, who was with her mother at the time of the shooting.

There is much speculation over what has become of the millions of dollars Remus said he made by bootlegging. Remus asserted that his wife took everything he had and left him penniless, while this charge is contradicted by Edward Dixon, Mrs. Remus' divorce attorney, and her brother, Harold Brown, of Ford, Ont. Dixon claims that Mrs. Remus was penniless and that her brother said he had been forced to lend her money to meet her current expenditures.

Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Remus will be kept secret, her brother said. The body will be taken some place out of Ohio for burial but Brown would not say where.