Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 129, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1927 — Page 3

OCT. 7, 1927

REMUS CONFIDENT THAT JURY WILL SET HIM FREE

SLAYER TO BE OWN LAWYER IN DEATH CASE Refuses Legal Assistance Offers of Friends; Held for Grand Jury. V LAUGHS AT SANITY PLEA 'Anyone Who Thinks I Am Insane, Needs Test Himself/ He Says. |By United Press CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 7. George Remus, who amassed five or six million dollars as “king of the bootleggers,” today was ordered held to the county grand jury without bond on a charge of murdering his estranged wife, Mrs. Imogene Holmes Remus. Remus waived preliminary hearing in police court and acting as his own attorney asked that an early trial be arranged. The county grand jury meets Monday. Remus refused the offers of legal assistance of W. W. O’Brien, Chicago criminal lawyer, and other friends, and elected to depend on his own cunning by which he built one of the country’s biggest bootlegging businesses. No Indication of Defense “I am going to put the whole case to a jury on its merits and let my peers decide my fate,” Remus said. Remus laughed at the intimation that he might plead insanity. "Do I act like an insane man? Any one who thinks I am insane needs to have his own mentality examined,” he said. Under a recent statute an insanity defense must be announced at the preliminary arraignment in police court else it is barred as a plea to a grand jury indictment. Remus refused to indicate what his defense would be, except to reiterate that he killed his estranged wife yesterday “for a principle,” and “I feel that I was justified in what I did.” He referred to the alleged conduct of his wife with Franklin Dodge, a former Department of Justice agent. Paying the Price George Remus, whose philosophy of business once was that “every man has his price,” and today contemplated the price he himself must pay. For he had brought to a sudden halt his amazing career when, Monday, he followed his wife, Imogene Holmes Remus, and as their 13-year-old daughter stood at her side in Eden Park here, fatally shot her. Remus had surrendered himself to authorities almost at the moment his wife was dying in a hospital. Change in Philosophy Overnight his philosophy had changed. Time was when he was defiant—confident that anything could be bought for money, and he has millions, amassed during the months he reigned unquestioned king of the bootleggers in the Middle West. But today he seemed to realize that his philosophy was wrong. “This is the penalty one pays for going contrary to society,” he mused in his prison cell. His friends intimated that they believed him insane, and, accordingly. the prosecutor took steps to thwart a plea of insanity. It was ordered that an alienist visit Remus in jail today and determine whether the man was sane. It will be the first major move by the prosecution. EULOGIZE EVANGELISST AT FUNERAL RITES Hackleman, Auto Crash Victim, Buried at Anderson Cemetery. Tribute to the memory of E. M. Hackleman, evangelistic song leader and composer, fatally injured in an automobile accident in Illinois Monday, was paid by four speakers at impressive funeral services at the Hackleman home, 1201 N. Alabama St., Thursday. Mr. Hackleman was eulogized by the Rev. C. H. Winders, pastor of the Northwood Christian Church; Dr. J. C. Todd, dean of the Indiana School of Religion at Bloomington; Dr. H. O. Pritchard, general secretary of the Disciples of Christ board of education, and the Rev. W. A Shullenberger, pastor of the Central Christian Church. Nearly all Christian church pastors in Marion County were present. Burial was in Anderson cemetery east of the city.

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DUVALL OUSTER SEEN IF TRIAL PLEAJSDENIED Prosecutors Say Action for Removal May Be Taken n Immediately. If Special Judge Cassius C. Shirley Saturday overrules Mayor Duvall’s motion for anew trial, Duvall will be removed automatically as mayor at once. This decision of the Marion County prosecutors’ staff was announced today by Emsley W. Johnson, special prosecutor named with John W. Holtzman to aid Prosecutor William H. Remy in the political corruption investigation. Duvall’s intention of appealing his corrupt practices act violatjfin conviction, on which he was fined SI,OOO and sentenced to thirty days in the Marion County jail, will not delay making Duvall ineligible to hold office, Johnson said. Expected Motion Refusal Special Judge Shirley is expected to overrule the new trial motion after arguments Saturday, as the motion is a formality necessary before the conviction can be appealed to the Indiana Supreme court. Johnson declared there are three ways by which Duvall may be removed if he persists in holding his city post, but declined to say whether the prosecutors or grand jury would act. The three ways; 1. Quo warranto procedure by the prosecuting attorney. 2. Any court ouster move by a citizen. 3. Impeachment by the grand Jury. Declared Ineligible The grand jury, in holding Duvall guilty, declared him ineligible to hold office for four years from Nov. 2, 1925, according to provisions of the corrupt practice act. If the court overrules the Duvall new trial motion, this section becomes operative at once, Johnson said. “From that date on, Mayor Duvall officially will not hold office and any act of his will be invalid,” he said. “The fact that the case may be appealed to the Indiana Supreme court will have no effect whatsoever. The ineligibility clause will not be stayed by appeal action." Have you little “white elephants” in your home? Things that you no longer use, but too good to throw away. A Want Ad will sell them for cash. Main 3500.

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STAY OF DOOM GIVEN BIRGER BY HIGHCOURT Gang Leader, Sentenced to Die October 15, Gets Chance for Life. Bu United Press SPRINGFIELD. 111., Oct. 7. Charley Birger, notorious gang leader, sentenced to be hanged for murder, today was granted a stay of execution, pending review of his case by the Illinois Supreme Court. Birger was sentenced to be hanged Oct. 15 for complicity in the murder of Mayor Joe Adams of West City, 111. His attorneys filed application for a writ of error. The Supreme Court, under its ruling today, will review the case to determine whether Birger's trial in Franklin County was fair. STARS IN HOSPITALS Three Movie Players Undergo Operations. Bu United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Oct. 7.—Hospitals in this part of California are assuming an “all star” appearance. Four motion picture players were reported recupecating from operations or accidents today, three of them in Hollywood hospitals and one in Pasadena. Marie Prevost is recovering from a minor operation at a hospital here and Patsy Ruth Miller has just undergone an operation for appendicitis. Mildred Marsh, sister of Mae Marsh, who collapsed on a movie set a few days ago, was reported improving in a Pasadena hospital, where she was operated upon for appendicitis. W. C. Fields, veteran actor, was recovering from injuries received when he was struck by a motor truck. Indiana Woman, 41, Dies Bu Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Oct. 7.—Mrs. Nancy Polk, 91, one of the oldest Howard County residents, is dead at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Michael Crickett, fifteen miles west of here.

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IRISH QUESTION BIG TANGLE AT RADHmRLET Free State Demands Vote and May Withdraw If Right Is Denied. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—The Irish question has been injected into the international radio conference here. Ireland is unwilling that the British delegation should cast her vote and has demanded a voice in the proceedings. Free State Minister Timothy A. Smiddey, it is learned authoritatively, has sent a note to the radio conference through the State department, protesting status of the Irish delegates and asking that Ireland be accorded one vote, placing her on a parity with Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and Britain herself. Irish sympathizers today predicted that unless the Irish request were granted, the Free State delegation would withdraw from the conference. The question is further complicated because the giving of a vote to the Irish would destroy the present parity of six votes each, accorded Great Britain and the United States. The United States gets its six votes by counting its territorial possessions and separate entities, just as Britain gets hers. The British delegation is reported to have cabled London for instructions. Richmond Man Kills Self Bu Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 7.—Henry S. Erk, 69, committed suicide with gas while despondent over ill health. He had been a business man hero several years.

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