The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31

AHR1L oU-l WO uAeOO Bank
bandits arrested at Toledo
MAY 2-Stephenson's wife yins
non-support suit by default.
MAY flames E. Armitage SEN
fenced to three months IN county
Jail and $500 fine for contempt of
court in Achey bribery attempt case
Duncan trial starts in Federal Court
Found guilty and gets two-year
sentence.
MAY 9-Patrolman Charles E
Carter dies of gun wounds, shot
by drunken man, despite blood
transfusions Of comrades.
MAY 1.-THE Times reveals Ste
pkenson plot 20 escape prison
Dragon in solitary. Mayor John L
Duvall writes Criminal Judge Col
MAY 19-Seventy-fve miles an
hour tornado hits city, starting
downtown and going east, where
greatest damage is done. More than
/ 900 buildings wrecked, one killed,
$50 injured, damage $4,000, 900.
Troops from TT. Harrison guard
area. Federal pardon board favors
parole of former Governor Warren
r. McCray from Atlanta Peniten-
tiary.
MAY 21-White River floods 500
homes.
MAY 23-Attorney General Ar
thur L. Gilliom urges Governor
Jackson in letter to work for legiS-
lation Of medicinal whisky, citing
instance Of Mrs. Jackson's recovery
by its illegal use.
MAY 24-Gilliom liquor stand
backed by doctors.
MAY 25-Indianapolis Street Rail-
way Company grants cents an hour
increase to all carmen, due to pc
tition before public service commits
sion of William Green.
MAY 26-Bandits get $4,000 from
Central State Bank, Thirtieth st.
and Central Ave.
MAY 28-W. G. T. u. attacks Gill
liom for medicinal liquor stand.
MAY 30-Annual 500-mile race
won by George Souders; two drivers
hurt
MAY Ex-Governor jackson or
dered by Superior Judge James M.
feathers to tell of money gifts from
Stephenson.
JUNE State charities board in
vestigates Stephenson mistreatment
charges.
JUNE 9-Charities board mem
berS quiz Stephenson at Indiana
State prison, Michigan City.
JUNE 15-CaSsius c. Shirley
chosen to try Duvall and Buser
cases. Stephenson's former wife ar
riyes from Oklahoma City with
daughter, 10, and visits dragon at
Michigan City prison.
JUNE 17-Col. Charles Lindbergh
crosses city in Spirit of st. Louis en-
route to homecoming welcome at
81. Louis. Flies around monument
IN greeting.
JUNE 2O-St. Patrick's Church
burned by firebug, $4,000 loss.
JUNE 2l-City manager plan wins
election by vote of 53,912 to 1854.
Market Master Earl Garrett faces
official misconduct charges
JUNE 23-Church f1rebug con-
1esses three attempts to burn
Catholic churches when captured
after chase at st. Joan of Arcs
Church.
JUNE 24-John ]. Collins city
purchasing agent, charged with ac-
cepting $500 bribe
JUNE 25 - Brighter General
Dwight E. Aultman leaves TT. Ben
jamin Harrison.
JUNE 27-New political probe
grand jury chosen.
JUNE 30-Wallace liquor case de-
clSion in Supreme Court upholds
constitutional provision of actual
knowledge before search warrant is
issued. Intense heat kills one man.
JULY 1-Newspapermen per-
mltted to interview Stephenson at
prison for the first time.
JULY 2-Gasoline down to 1913
cents in local trade war.
JULY General Pershing leads
parade of 5000 and lays corner stone
OF World War Memorial. Traffic ac-
cidents kill five.
JULY 5-James G. Douglas
county assessor, leaps to death from
seventh floor window of Union Title
building. Twenty-one violent deaths
in State reported during forty
eight hours.
JULY 6-Stephenson talks to spe-
clal prosecutors at prison.
JULY Stephenson BLACK boxes
search started.
JULY 1.-THE Times reveals that
BLACK boxes" contain $4,000 check
to Governor Jackson, which Ste
phenSon says was part of $4,000 I'M
recorded campaign contribution
jackson mute when interviewed in
Kansas.
JULY 12-The Times follows Jack
son check with others, taken from
black boxes.
JULY 14-Jackson says $2,5OC
check was for saddle horse he sold
Stephenson, when he (Jackson) was
secretary of State.
JULY Ex-Governor paroles Editor
George Dale, Muncle, in 90-day
contempt sentence. The Times
publishes Stephenson statement
that he contributed $73,216 to G. o
P. State campaign in 1924. Items
listed.
JULY 16-Prosecutcr questions
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