The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-25
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were at Michigan. City at the same
time as the Adams party arrived.
Then Senator Ray NJ. Southworth
Lafayette. one of the legislators VINO
during the last session resisted eff
forst of Stephenson to control that
body, was heard by the 1nvestiga-
tors.
FavOrs Public Probe
Before going before the jury
Southworth declared he would tell
the jury all he knew, but said he be-
lieved the investigation of the Steph-
enson charges should be conducted in
public.
He said he favored a special Sen
ate session, as advocated by Adams
to investigate the charges so that
nothing could be ''whitewashed.
Earl Gentry, FORMER aid of Ste
phenson, who was freed on the
murder charge on which Stephenson
was convicted, was before the grand
jury for more than two hours this
morning.
While Gentry was before the jury
George Elliott, father of George =.
Elliott. former Marion County Khan
cyclops, was brought to the prosecu-
tors office.
Son Sought
The son, who mysteriously disap-
peared more than a week ago, is
sought as a,~witness.
Deputy Prosecutors Sheaffer and
Niblack said Elliott was questioned
about his sons disappearance. They
indicated belief that the son would
be found and brought before the jury
soon.
1t was announced that a subpoena
summoning Grin L. Davis, defeated
candidate for Republican nomination
for sheriff in the spring primary. be-
fore the jury this afternoon had been
issued.
Davis, declared George V. Coffin,
Republican county boss, offered him
the post of collector of internal
revenue in Indiana if he would quit
the sheriff's race. Coffin said
Senator Arthur II. Robinson would
back him for the Senate post, Davis
stated
Immediate Action Unlikely
During the noon recess, Prosecutor
Remy said ne doubted If the jury
would return any report this week.
They'll have to work faster than
they have been. If they take any
action this week." he asserted.
When he emerged from the jury
room Southworth expressed himself
as being well pleased with the
progress of the grand jury investi-
CATION.
The State Senator reiterated his
statement that "Stephensonism was
rampant in the lower house during
the last Legislature" There was
some dictatorship in the Senate
he said, but it was not so pro-
nounced.
Alonzo LETTERS. a contractor, living
at 4102 f. Thirty Eighth St, APP
peared at the grand jury room dur
ing the non recess. He said some
one had called him over the tele-
phone and told him to appear be-
fore the grand jury this afternono.
He did not have a subpoena.
letters was defeated for the Re
publican nomination for county COM
missioner in the primary last spring
by George Snyder, former sheriff.
Miller Heads Appeal
During the conference at the pris
on Saturday Stephenson said
that Miller represent his muir
der appeal and turned TO Kiplinger
and Hill and made it emphatic.
Kiplinge. and Hill we're in the
prison when the Adams party ar
rived. 1t had been planned to keep
the fact that Adams had been en-
trusted by Prosecutor William ii.
Remy and Ralph Kane with the mis-
sion of unsealing Stephenson's lips
secret. But it gained publicity and
the two attorneys who have inter-
ested themselves in the Stephenson
affair and have not aided the prose
cutors were on the ground.
When Stephenson was finally
reached. stepping from a conference
with Kiplinger and. Hill, said that
he would talk of nothing but his own
murder case.
I'm Danger"
You can see how it is and the
fix I am in. l am in great danger.
/ am in keen Jeopardy. My liberty
is at stake and If l talk about any
thing else today, would only injure
my own case and cause myself added
trouble" said Stephenson.
The preliminaries to the conference
with Stephenson were interesting.
On their arrival Adams was told by
Warden Daily that he had a request
from Stephenson not to permit him
to be interviewed except in the pres
ence Of Kiplinger and Hill.
There was Il protest from Adams
that his mission from the prosecu.
tor called for no such outsiders and
was limited to five persons, including
Sheaffer, deputy to Remy.
SheaIfer went to the telephone and
called Attorney General Gilliom.
While he was talking, Stephenson
was closeted with Kiplinger and Hill.
Sheaffer announced that these law
yers would be excluded and then Ste
phenson made his statement con-
corning his reticence on the subjects
of letters he had sent to Adams,
saving that he had documentary eVi.