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...went to Atlanta penitentiary for using the U. S. mails to defraud, the prosecutor of the case being Governor McCray's own appointee, young Mr. Remy. The latter was pointed out on the streets of Indianapolis as "that rising young prosecutor." Before long he succeeded in sending David Curtis Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan and producer of votes for a consideration, to jail for the murder of a girl. In 1927 he obtained the indictments of Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis and six councilmen for corrupt office-getting...
...Conspiracy. It is charged that Ed Jackson, Dragon Stephenson and two minor politicians put their heads together in 1923, found that they needed 10.000 votes to swing the coming gubernatorial primary, decided that control of Marion county's prosecuting office would give them the votes, offered Governor McCray (then in mail trouble) $10,000 to let them name the prosecutor. Also they promised Governor McCray that no jury in Indiana would convict him of any crime. Governor McCray refused...
...convicted for his felony, in return for Mr. McDonald's appointment. 3) That Mr. McCray refused Mr. Jackson, his cash and his immunity, appointing instead to the vacant post the successor recommended by his son-in-law, namely, William H. Remy. 4) That Grand Dragon David C. Stephenson of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan later repeated the cash-and-immunity offer to Mr. McCray, who again refused. 5) That Mr. Jackson and Mr. Stephenson then threatened Mr. McCray, while he was serving time for his felony in Atlanta Peni- tentiary, to obstruct his parole if he ever gave...
Indicted last week with Governor Ed Jackson for his alleged chicanery, were Robert I. Marsh, his one-time law partner, and George V. Coffin, Republican boss of Marion County. David C. Stephenson is already in jail for life, as a murderer...
Witnesses. These cases have reached court at an opportune moment. All the main witnesses are conveniently at hand. In his cell at Michigan City, Ind., onetime Dragon Stephenson has been telling secrets with his eye on the prison gate. From his cell in Atlanta, Warren T. McCray returned home last fortnight, happy to be free, resolving to be good. He of all men can tell what passed between the Governors of Indiana...