Law: American Justice

For five weeks, Judge Chester R. Shook of Cincinnati, and a jury of ten men and two women, listened to stout, baldheaded, raucous George Remus, attorney, defend stout, baldheaded raucous George Remus, accused of murder. The two Messrs. Remus were physically one-and-the-same man, but Judge Shook was impotent to prevent them from acting as separate entities in his courtroom, where they convinced the jury that still a third stout, baldheaded, raucous George Remus had committed the murder.

The third Mr. Remus was said to be the second Mr. Remus while insane, i. e....

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