Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 9 | Remus to Wage New Battle to Escape Asylum

REMUS TO 10 WAGE NE BATTLE Hlf Tn 10 ESCAPE ASYLUM CINCINNATI Dec 31 si AP AP- AP G George Georgo R Remus today ended the most colorful year of a a. checkered career adjudged a a lunatic and fighting strenuously against lifetime incarceration incarceration incarceration In the state hospItal for forthe forthe forthe the criminal ir Insane san at Lima The hardest licks were saved forthe forthe for tor the new year with only a perfunctory perfunctory perfunctory tory gesture set feet et for today Charles H. H Elston fighting alone for the first time since RemUs Remus- shot and killed his estranged wife Imogene here last October 6 and then headed head head- ed ed his own defense planned t to de demand demand domand do- do mand a hearing from Judge William Wil Wil- liam Ham H. H Lueders of the probate court who yesterday overthrew the opinions of six alienists and determined determined deter deter- mined rained Rem Remus us is Insane NO REHE REHEARING RiN T That Thata at ata a rehearing would b be denied was accepted as a foregone con con- clu elusion ion Elston said his only reason reason rea rea- son for going before Judge Lueders Lueers would be to obtain denial of ot another s sanity test f for r Remus so that an appeal along the line of f error proceedings proceedings proceedings pro pro- might be tak taken n into the court of common pleas It was in ina ina a branch o of that court that R Re ReInus Remus mus Inus was acquitted of ot th the murder of ot his wife on the sole g ground of In in- in sanity It was through the consideration of Judge Judg Lu Lueders ders that Remus was permitted to remain in the Hamilton county Jail here until next Tuesday while Elston resorted to every legal lega means means' means means' to save save sav him from Lima b bu but buta t ta a hearing hearing- on onan an an application for it i I writ of habeas corpus also was was' s set f for r that day still holding in In hi abeyance Remus' Remus actual commit ment WRIT ISSUED The writ was late yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day by by Judge Charles S. S Bell Upon tipon application of Gabriel Ryerson law in of at Remus Elston demanded an Immediate hearing and also demanded Remus be granted grant granZ- ed bail The habeas habeas' corpus t hearing got Into court too late for certain records records records rec rec- to be obtained and the hearing i iwas was contin continued ed until next Tuesday with Elston withdrawing his de demand demand demand de- de mand for bond