Show GEORGE REMUS BOOTLEG KINO KING WI WIFE F E. E SLAYERS SLAYER DENIES GUILT Declares He Owed It to Society to Shoot Woman oman HIS OWN LAWYER Millionaire La LaW v Breaker Finds Life of Crime Tough CINCINNATI Oct 7 By 7 By The The Associated Press George George Remus nemus once millionaire c r who shot his Isis wife Imogene fatally an nn hour before their divorce hearing yesterday morning pleaded not guilty when arraigned for preliminary hearing to to- to day Remus nemus was held to Lo the grand Jury without bond Remus's nemus's activities as a millionaire bootlegger were nipped by a conviction lion tion in federal fed ern 1 court and sentence to imprisonment at Atlanta penitentiary He said ald he would depend upon his own legal l gal talents defending himself In today's scheduled police hearing and In subsequent court actions Remus nemus was building what promised to be a brilliant career as ns a criminal lawyer In Chicago before he came to Cincinnati shortly after national pro pro- prohibition prohibition prohibition came effective CONSCIENCE CE CLEAR Remus awaited court action he said raid with a clear conscience adding that he owed it n to society to kill his wile wife Charles H. H Taft Tact Hamilton county prosecutor Indicated that Remus's re request re- re request quest for speedy justice vr-uld vr uld be ful ful- ful- ful filled He Indicated that Remus nemus will willbe willbe be held to the th grand Jury without ball bail on a charge of ot murder following today's police court hearing and that the case ease would be brought to the at attention at- at of ot the new grand Jury when It convenes Monday Prosecutor Taft has little doubt but that an indict indict- indictment indictment ment will bo ba b returned at once and Remus arraigned as soon as the legal time has elapsed after aCter he has been served with a copy opy of oC the bill DAUGHTER D. TO AID Remus is not no undertaking his own defense because of ot lack cf ot offers ot of I aid ald He lie displayed telegrams from W. W W W. OBrien O'Brien Cl Cr 0 o criminal lawyer ler and Daly formerly assistant u- u 1 at Chicago of offering ot- ot feting fering their services Miss SISS Rom Born a a Remus daughter of or Remus nemus by his isis first hurried fro fro- Chicago last night to the Jail here where she assured her father lather she would stand by him She said she was I he was Justified in shooting his second wile wife She lives with her mother who was divorced from Remus nemus and married agaIn Remus' Remus second wife wire was formerly Mrs Holmes an Evanston i married her herless herless Illinois divorces He I Iless less than a year ear after he had ben b en divorced by his first wife He lIe gave up his Chicago law Jaw practice and came cameto cameto cameto to Cincinnati In 1921 to purchase dis distilleries dis- dis and warehouses In Kentucky Indiana IndIan and Ohio for his million dollar donar bootlegging business In 1921 Remus began serving servin a two- two year ear sentence in Atlanta penitentiary but was vas out In 1925 on good behavior A year ear ear In county Jail at Ports Ports- Portsmouth Portsmouth Portsmouth mouth Ohio followed his isis penitentiary term and after he was released this spring the hearing on Mrs Remus' Remus petition for a divorce was reopened Seve 11 continuances slowed progress of the divorce case In a n cross petition filed by Remus nemus In September 1925 he asked to bs be b grant grant- granted ed the divorce and named as re co Franklin L. L 1 Dodge Jr for for- former former former mer department of ot Justice agent who was instrumental In Remus's tion lion It was WIS the carrying on be between be- be between tween his wife and Dodge on which Remus bases his belief belle he owed it Jt to r clety t to kill her |