The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-20
TOOK $4,000
( TO keep AID,
DUvALL SAYS
Didn't Want Support by
Armitage Thrown to Some
Other Candidate.
NO IDEA OF USING 1T
Mayor Leaves Stand; De-
tense Is Expected to
Rest Wednesday.
NO IDEA OF USING 1T

Rest Wednesday.
Mayor John L. Duvall today de-
clared on the witness stand that he
accepted $4,000 in contributions
from William H. Armitage which he
never intended using in order that
Armitage might not throw his
financial and political power behind
some other candidate for mayor of
indianapolis in the 1925 campaign.
Duyall, appearing worn and far
more nervous than he did Monday
during his direct examination, left
the stand this morning after Pros
ecutor William H. Remy had bored
into him with questions on cross
examination designed to bring
forcibly TO the attention Of the jury
a picture of the mayor buying the
good will of two men about to go
before the Marion County grand
jury by signing their notes for $1,000
and giving them written recon-
mendations for high city jobs.
Defense May Rest Wednesday
The defense is expected to
on Wednesday. The State plans
to put two star witnesses on the
stand in rebuttal.
One of them will be former
Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank and the
other william H. Armitage. The
defense spent most of the time
Duvall was on the stand in ask
ing questions designed to refute the
amazing story of bartering with
Duvall for city hall jobs which Ar
mitage told.
Shank is expected to tell what
was talked about in a conversa-
ton he had with Duvall in front
of the Shank residence in Golden
Hill during the 1925 campaign.
Cops, Firemen Testify
The defense placed number Of
policemen and firemen upon the
stand to show that Duvall had made
no promises of patronage before the
election.
Orville Marshall, a fire captain,
testified he attended a meeting OF
Red Star League members during
the campaign and admitted, upon
cross-examination, that Duvan
"apologized for the manner in
which the treasurer's office had
been run, but stated he had cleaned
house since the first of the year and
there were no niggers or Catholics
left"
Duvall was county treasurer while
he was a candidate for mayor.
The mayor, cross-examined by the
State Monday afternoon, had ad-
mitted endorsing $1,000 notes each
for Harvey w. Bedford, Ku-Klux
Klan organizer and former impor-
tant cog In the Duvall political ma
chine, and George s. Elliott, former
cyclops Of the Marion County Klar1.
The mayor also admitted giving
them written recommendations"
for city hall jobs.
Only Recommendations
The State contends the mayor
gave them appointments, but the
mayor insisted they we're merely
recommendations"
Elliott was to have been park SUI
perintendent and Bedford traffic In
spector.
All this occurred on or about Oct.
IS, at. the time when the Marion
County grand jury was just start
ing to dig into the Indiana political
corruption inquiry and Bedford and
Elliott were expected to be witnesses.
Later, when they were called,
Bedford and Elliott disappeared and
we're sought in. several States by
grand jury agents for several days.
Appear Before Jury
Finally the two reappeared and
went before the jury. They have
been before the grand jury several
times since.
The mayor, cross-examined by
Prosecutor William H. Remy this
morning, admitted that the two
$1,000 notes, through the Marion
County State Bank, of which Duvall
used to be chairman of the board,
have not been paid, although, as he
remembered 1t, they were ninety
day notes.
Duvall told Of having been called
by telephone by Bedford on the
morning of Oct. IS, 1925. He said
they made an appointment and met
at Sixteenth and Ashland Aves.
Later in the morning he saw both
Bedford and Elliott at Nineteenth
and Bellefontaine Sts., he said
Still later that morning, Bedford
met the mayor In the mayors office.
Bedford Took Notes
The mayor said that Bedford
walked out of that conference with
the two $1,000 notes and the two
recommendations for appointments.
Remy asked Duvali:
ibid they tell you that the DEM
ocratic State committee had got
ten In touch with them and that
they had shown to r. Earl Peters,
Democratic state chairman, the doc
,irnent which you signed In the e.
Tenth st. Community House on the
occcasion when Or. Henninger read
you questionnaire2"
A defense objection was overruled
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