Six doctors on derangement last week examined stout, baldheaded, raucous George Remus, who admitted killing his wife but was acquitted by a Cincinnati jury on the ground of insanity (TIME, Jan. 2). All six agreed he was no longer insane. Five of the doctors also agreed that he was psychopathic, unmoral, hysterical, "subject to unrestrained outbreaks of temper and rage" and, therefore, "dangerous to be at large."
Probate Judge William H. Lueders, an older, more resolute man than Judge Chester R. Shook in whose courtroom the Remus trial was performed, heard the doctors'...
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