The trial of George Remus dominates the front page as prosecutors work to dismantle the defense's insanity plea by reframing the narrative around his murdered wife, Imogene. The bootlegger, imprisoned for Prohibition violations, allegedly shot and killed her in a jealous rage. The state's rebuttal testimony—led by a sympathetic Alabama witness who spent time with Mrs. Remus—paints a picture not of a perfidious woman, but of a cruelly treated spouse. In a striking courtroom moment, the witness testifies that when Remus wouldn't kiss his wife goodbye properly, she told him no wonder she left him—and he obliged with a better kiss. Simultaneously, in Ohio, society girl Velma West sits primped in her cell awaiting a hearing for allegedly murdering her husband Eddie with a hammer because he refused to attend a party. The small-town football hero is being buried while his wife, who was supposed to join a Methodist church this week, awaits trial. Her lawyer hints at self-defense and temporary insanity claims.

December 1927 America was obsessed with domestic crime and the question of how much a spouse's infidelity—real or imagined—justified violence. The Remus case, one of the decade's most sensational trials, explored masculinity, control, and what drove men to murder. These dual narratives also reveal the Jazz Age's collision between traditional small-town values and modern urban behavior: Velma West smoking cigarettes openly and attending parties scandalized Perry, Indiana, while city life normalized female independence. The trials reflect deeper anxieties about changing gender roles and marriage itself during an era when Prohibition had already destabilized law and order.

• The witness in the Remus case, Mrs. Elizabeth Felix, hailed from Birmingham, Alabama—she was almost a constant companion of Mrs. Remus in Atlanta while Remus served his federal sentence, suggesting the wives of wealthy bootleggers formed their own social networks during Prohibition.
• Velma West's lawyer, Richard Bostwick, is described as 'debonnair' and 'youthful'—newspapers routinely used such character descriptors in crime coverage, subtly shaping jury perception before trial.
• The New York Curb market listing shows 'S O Indiana' (Standard Oil of Indiana) trading at 77–77½, reflecting how oil stocks were standard investments even in regional newspapers.
• Weather data appears almost as breaking news: 'Colder Again Sunday' with the mercury predicted to drop to 15 degrees—no weather apps meant readers relied entirely on newspapers for forecasting, making meteorology frontpage-worthy.
• A $50,000 fire at Galveston (near Logansport) destroyed the Alvin Beck restaurant and F. A. Thomas General Store—in 1927 dollars, roughly $850,000 today, yet it's buried in a two-sentence brief below the fold.

• George Remus appears in the trial text as a man who calmly announced he would 'kill Dodge' one moment, then complained that 'all the money in the world was not worth one hour of penal servitude' the next—Remus was the real-life inspiration for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby, published just two years earlier in 1925.
• The stock market report shows Charles E. Mitchell, president of National City Bank, making 'optimistic predictions' that buoyed prices—Mitchell would become infamous as the face of reckless 1920s banking, and would testify before Congress after the 1929 crash about speculation gone wild.
• The Locarno Pact mentioned in the Geneva dispatch was a 1925 treaty guaranteeing Germany's western borders; the text notes today's meeting might create a similar pact for Poland-Lithuania disputes—ironically, just 12 years later, both countries would be obliterated by Nazi invasion.
• Elmer Davis is scheduled to speak at the Indiana Pioneers' dinner tonight on 'The Perpetual Frontier'—Davis would become one of America's most trusted radio news voices during World War II, essentially the Edward R. Murrow of CBS Radio.
• The J. F. Wild Cos. State Bank is distributing a 40% dividend to 12,000 depositors by December 20—this orderly bank receivership contrasts sharply with the chaos of bank failures that would engulf the nation after 1929, when there was no FDIC insurance.