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...Finally Mr. Stephenson himself testified before the Grand Jury now engaged in investigating charges of corrupt politics in Indiana. Taken from Michigan City to Indianapolis under prison guard escort, Mr. Stephenson spent more than five hours before the Grand Jury, smoked cigars with gusto, was then motored back to jail where no cigars are permitted. The jury also heard testimony from Mis? Meade and had previously been given the evidence found in the black boxes. After hearing the Stephenson story the jury refused to adjourn, although the term of criminal court for which they were sitting ended last week...
...whites of the enemy's eyes were visible. Financial affairs, being less emotional, are less noticed, but still there is usually some mention of Robert Morris, who is described as having lent large sums of money to the Continental Government and later spending many years in a debtor's jail. Last week in Manhattan the Morris story was gone into in some detail, owing to its connection with an even more neglected Revolutionary figure, one Haym Salomon. Mr. Salomon was a Jewish banker in Philadelphia. To him Jews wished to erect a statue in Madison Square, Manhattan. When the Municipal...
That was complot, cried Judge Rutherford. The "regular" churches were seeking to destroy his sect. In 1918 they had him sent to Atlanta Penitentiary for obstructing the War draft. But the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, after he had spent eight months in jail, had ordered him released. The present exclusion from the air was another "frame-up." Mr. Aylesworth was in cahoots with the preachers...
Last week, however, his bones were discovered in the closet where Indiana keeps its political skeletons, were dragged out and picked over. For he became Exhibit A in the expose of Indiana politics which Mr. Stephenson (in jail since April 1925 for murder) last fortnight began (TIME, July 18). Mr. Stephenson had begun his expose by confiding to Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy many of the deeds performed during his (Mr. Stephenson's) tenure of office as Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan which then (1924) constituted the "invisible government" of Indiana. Last week Mr. Stephenson took...
Last week Chang Tso-lin adopted an attitude of even greater indifference toward chunky, placid, middle-aged Mme. Borodin. She was released from jail under an amnesty, and at once hastened to Tientsin, preparing to embark there for Vladivostok...