The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-10

Inc lndlcCmenC against Governor
Ed Jackson, Robert I. Marsh and
George v. Coffin follows:
The State of Indiana VS.. Ed jack
son, George v. Coffin, Robert I.
Marsh. Indictment for conspiracy
to commit felony: Attempt to
bride.
The grand jurors for the County
of Marion and State of Indiana,
upon their oaths, present that on
or about the eighth day of Deem
Der, A. D. 1923, one Warren T. Nc
Cray was the duly elected, qualified
and acting Governor of the State
Of Indiana, an tffice of trust and
profit under the laws of the State
of Indiana, and as such Governor
was charged with the duty of ap-
pointing a prosecuting attorney for
any judicial circuit in the State OF
Indiana whenever a vacancy &C.
Cured.
That on or about said day the
duly elected, qualified and acting
prosecuting attorney for the nine
teenth judicial circuit of the State
of Indiana, the same being Marion
County, Indiana, having then and
there resigned as such prosecuting
attorney, thereby creating a va
cancy in said Office, that said War
rem T. McCray, as Governor afore-
said, was charged with the duty OF
filling such vacancy and naming a
successor in said Office of prosecut-
ing attorney, and while the said
Warren t. McCray was considering
whom he would appoint to fill said
vacancy one Ed Jackson, then and
there being secretary Of State OF
the State of Indiana, George V.
Coffin, then and there being chair
man of the Republican central
committee for Marion County, In
diana, and Robert I. Marsh, an at
torney for the Ku-Klux Khan, did
then and there unlawfully, know
ingly and feloniously unite, COM
bine, conspire and confederate and
agree to and with each other and
one David G. Stephenson for the
object and purpose and with the
unlawful and felonious intent to
then and there unlawfully, corrupt
w and feloniously attempt to bride
said Warren T. McCray, then and
there Governor Of the State OF IN
diana, as aforesaid, by offering to
the said Warren T. McCray the sum
of ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
for the purpose of influencing and
inducing the said Warren T. Nc
Cray to appoint one James E. Nc
Donald to the Office Of prosecuting
attorney for said nineteenth judicial
district. of the state of Indiana, and
by further offering the said Warren
t. McCray that they would guar
antee that no jury in the State
of Indiana would convict him of the
charge then pending against him in
the Marion County Criminal Court
or any other court in which he
might be charged with criminal
/ offense in the State of Indiana.
That the said Ed Jackson, George
". Coffin and Robert L Marsh con-
cealed the fact that the above de-
scribed offer Of a bride had been
made from the eighth day OF De-
cember, 1923, until the twenty-fifth
day of July, 1927, by stating to the
said Warren T. McCray that the
/ said George v. Coffin was county
chairman of the Republican central
committee for Marion County, In
diana, and was a man Of great and
powerful political influence, and
that the said David 9. Stephenson
was associated with the said Ed
jackson, George ". Coffin and Rob-
ert /. Marsh in making such offer.
That said George ". Coffin and
said Robert I. Marsh and said Da-
vid G. Stephenson had the backing
of the Ku-Klux Khan In the State
of Indiana, numbering several hun
bred thousand persons, and that
they and each of them were inf1u-
entail in said organization, and that
they could prevent conviction OF
the said Warren T. McCray in any
court in the State of Indiana in
which he might be charged with
crime and tried. and represented to
him, the said Warren T. McCray
that he was in very serious stu
alton and liable to be convicted, and