Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
Ex-KIan Dragon Bares Al
legged Political Corruption at
Third Indiana Inquiry.
SECRETS OF FAMOUS
BLACK BOXES REVEALED
Probers to Remain in Session, but
Will Hear No More Wit
nesses for Month.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. July SOD. c.
Stephenson talked for FIVE hours
today.
Into just what phases Of the COM
pick Indiana political corruption in.
Guirv his earnest, Gesticulating con-
versat ton with the six Marion County
grand jurors carried him is a matter
that only the secret official record
could illuminate. but, al any rate, he
talked
Having done the talking, which he
has threatened intermittenly for a
year to do, he was Whisked back to
the cell at the Indiana State prison
at Michigan City, which has been
home to him ever since he was con-
victed 20 months ago of numbering
Madge OberholtZer.
Action to BE Delayed.
Following examination of Stephen
son, the grand jury, the third since
last Fall to investigate allegations of
corrupt bargainings for public Office,
reported TO Judge A. Collins in Crlml-
nal Court that it would examine no
witnesses for a month. 1t will remain IN
session, however, going over the T.
900 pages of evidence taken by its
predecessors and examining document
arv evidence recently obtained by VIII
liam II. Remy, prosecuting attorney.
Remy and his assistants, Emsley w.
Johnson, John w. Hoffman and Will
liam H Sheaffer, went their ways on
one month vacations today.
Stephenson and an automobile load
of guards secretly left the peniten-
tiary at o'clock this morning. They
arrived here at 7:30. Stephenson be.
ing Immediately taken to the grand
jury room.
The return to the scene Of his pc.
litcal conouests was eventless. few
street sweepers and janitors being I'M
aware of the identity Of the man in
blue suit, white shirt, black bow tie
and light cap who walked into the
courthouse with a man close by each
side of him.
Grand Jurors Arrive.
The grand jurors arrived immedi.
ately after Stephenson and the flve.
hour executive session started. with
only a handful of newspa per men in
the gloomy corridor outside the stuffy
little grand jury room. As deputy
prosecutors walked in and out, ocCa-
sional glimpses could be caught of the
man who once proclaimed himself the
law in Indiana" talking energetically
to the grand jurymen, whom he faced
across a table. A fat cigar, probably
his first in 90 months, inasmuch az
prison rules contemplate only pipes,
was held in his teeth at a jaunty
angle.
After an hour of the conference had
elapsed, Sheaffer appeared with one
of the little black boxes" and a
manila. envelope stuffed with papers.
This box and its companion have for
year been popularity supposed to
contain all of Stephenson's private pa
pers, now considered valuable as doc
umentary evidence of the former Kan
grand dragons deals and bargaining
with candidates for high office in the
1924 election.
At conclusion of the conference,
shortly after 1880, Stephenson de-
parted. The scene was as dramatic
as if he. in his former capacity OF
master Snowman, had planned it.
The chauffeur dashed down the two
flights of stairs, followed by Stephen
son and his two guards. The former
hoped into his car and started racing
the motor as the latter three walked
briskly through the crowd Of curious
spectators that had formed.
Stephenson waved to few &C.
quaintances and, as he stepped into
the car, shook hands with one man.
A final throb of the motor and the
former political car was swept in tbs
prison car out into the swirl of noon
day traffic in which the trail of blue
smoke from the automobiles exhaust
pipe was lost as it turned a corner.
Ex-Secretary Greets Him.
AT one time or another during
Stephenson's parley with the grand
jury, Lloyd o. Hill, Michigan City. one
of his attorneys, and Miss Mildred
Meade, his former secretary and con-
fidante, appeared and were admitted
to the jury room. Miss Meade, who
could not be found during the first
last fall. greeted
cordially. He shook hands
with her, chatting for a moment be-
fore both turned TO the jurors to
answer questions jointly.
Stephenson had 10 sooner been
taken away than attention was turned
To the expected arrival here of Gov.
Ed Jackson, one of the officials men,
tiored repeatedly in the corruption
who has been at Mackinac
Island, Mich, for the past few days.
Trains arriving from Detroit during
the afternoon apparently did not bear
the chief executive.