The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-17

juries. Collins appointed Hoffman
and Johnson to aid Remy.
Throughout the Armitage trial the
limelight was thrown continually on
affairs at the City Hall during both
the Shank and Duvall administra-
lions.
After weaving the substantiated
story of the offer from Armitage and
the several meetings. the State
switched its case to contributions
and alleged promises on municipal
board appointments.
State Questions Fail
! The prosecution brought out from
| William II. Freeman, board of works
member under Shank. that he was
visited by the Armitage brothers a
| few nights before recent changes
were made in the personnel of the
board of works by Duvall. Although
questions were asked, the State was
] not successful in bringing to the
! front whether or not the Armitages
were visitors of the mayor the same
evening and whether the prospective
appointments were discussed by the
/ brothers and Freeman.
James Armitage. during the trial,
admitted he had taken sums amount
ing to $4,000 from his safety de-
post box and turned them over to
his brother. before election. He said
he did not know what the money was
used for. but that he got part OF il
back after election. Efforts of the
State to show that the money was
contributed to Duvall's election cam
paign fund were blocked by objec-
lions of the defense.
Witnesses interviewed
Immediately after discharge of the
jury the prosecutors called William
II. Armitage before them, He was
followed by Bedford and Elliott:
County Commissioner George SniGer
and Alvah j. Rucker. former cor
poration counsel. dismissed by
! D1vall.
Rucker. while the first jury was
! in session, in a suit filed in Circuit
Court in an effort to prevent merger
Of the Indianapolis Light and Heat
Company and the Merchants Heat
and Light Company. charged that
utilities contributed $4,000 to Gov
ernor Jackson's campaign fund in
1924.
/ Remy then brought two mysterious
men before the prosecutors group,
who live outside indianapolis and
who are especially familiar with stu
atoms surrounding Stephenson in
Michigan City prison. Their names
have not been made public.
Frank Cones, county councilman,
recently appointed to the board of
works in the shift was another wit
ness. Then came former board of
safety member Ernest L. Kingston
and NJ. j. Hanrahan former politi-
cal investigator.
A few days after the prosecutors
started calling witnesses, Mayor Du-
valt worte a letter to Collins asking
him to appoint q. special prosecutor
and select grand jury so he could
present evidence showing malfeas-
ance in Office by Remy. He charged
the prosecutor was a member of a
gigantic conspiracy to ruin" him
| DuvalD.
Judge Writes Letters
Collins replied by letter that Du-
vail, if he had evidence. should pre-
sent 1t to the new grand jury to be
| impanelled in July.
The rebuff failed to stop Duvall's
move and he wrote a second letter
to Collins asserting he could not re-
ceive a fair and impartial treatment"
because of the park board and he
| DuvalD had practically forced
special Prosecutor Johnson to resign
early in the administration.
Collins refused to answer the Sec
ond letter, except by statement to
the press in which he said the ad-
ministration of the Criminal Court
would not be carried on by mail.
Duvall continued to insist he would
file affidavits against Remy, but has