Evening star., 1926-10-14

| grand jury, and yesterday stephen.
| son, himself, was brought to Indian
| apolis and taken before that body
| While the proceedings in the grand
| jury room are secret, 1t is learned that
| Stephenson would not talk. Later he
appeared in the Superior Court at the
| Hoosier Tailors, Inc, receivership
hearing and again refused to testify
Stephenson was director in this cor.
poration, now involved in a civil suit
When newspaper men questioned him
In the courtroom, he did not answer
and his counsel shooed the reporters
away. Under heavy guard. he was
taken from the courtroom and sent
on his way back to Jail.
The refusal of Stephenson to testify
either before the grand jury or in the
Superior Court was interpreted here
as a collapse of the probe demanded
by Adams, although Adams maintains
that ii was not q grand jury investi-
cation he wanted behind closed doors,
but a hearing in the open. Further
more, it is said, that If Stephenson
had ever intended to talk he has
now decided 1t is better policy to hold
his tongue. He is expected to file an
appeal from the decision in the MUIR
der case. under which he is now serv-
be perfected within a month. 1t is
even rumOred that his threat to tell all
he knew about the last political cam
paign was merely a threat to force
an agreement by which he would later
get his liberty. and that in the mean
time he has been reached" and
silenced.
Hope Rests NItll Reed.
in 0F do nd &c
supporters demanding an investigation
now lies in the Reed senatorial inveS-
tigating committee. Senator Reed of
Missouri, chair man, has been peppered
with requests to bring his committee
here.
After Stephenson declined to testify,
Adams gave out a statement in which
he quoted Floyd Christian, a lawyer
of Noblesville, and an attorney for
the defense in the Stephenson mur-
der trial, as saying that he had visit
ed Stephenson in Jail before he was
convicted and that Stephenson had
shown him checks and an alleged
agreement for support by Stephenson
in the election of the mayor Of Indian
apolis. Christian was quoted as saying
that Stephenson had told him he also
had spent something over 100000 in
the campaign for the election of Ed
ward Jackson, present Republican
governor. while 1 was at the Jail, !"
Christian said. according to the state
ment, Il asked Stephenson what he
was going to do with these papers
and he said: L have notion to turn
them over to you.' and said If you
do I will turn them over to Remy
(the prosecuting attorney for as law
yer that is all can do And Stephen
son said, Well, l want to use them as
a club, and won't turn them over to
you
He also said" according to Chris
.ain, that if he had to stay in the
penitentiary over six months, l VIII
take so many Of those fellows up
there with me they will have to build
an addition to the prison to accom-
modate Them And then he laughed
and said, You know if l have to
stay, 1 want to be among friends.
I expostulated and told him that l
didn't want to taint my hands with
a dirty political mess like that. l
wish l had taken possession of the
documents then. I don't know where
they are now, but Stephenson will
tell later and I do not think he can
be bullied. He has openly declared
that he wants to talk to an open
forum of Senators and your probe
committee"
Gov. jackson denied fatty, when
shown the statement made py