The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-16

The city manager league
payments were brought out as
McNay was quizzed as to how
he happened to have $1,000
cash, which he said he loaned
on a "hot" car to "Charles R.
Frater, - identified as Leo
Baldwin, one of the leaders Of
the alleged conspiracy.
City manager leaders, told of
McNays testimony, said that they
had paid McNay for information
"as to crooks who we're to be on
election boards and politicians who
pretended to be friendly. They said
their financial report as required by
law showed the regular payments
to McNay, who conferred with them
from time to time but did not par
ticipate in work at the polls.
Also Bought Farm
McNay had testified he bought a
farm short time before on pay
mentS.
Where did you get the money to
loan this man $1,000 on the carr"
Albred S. Ward, United State dis
trict attorney, asked.
From money 1 made around
town. NdcNay said at first.
When the question was repeated,
he replied:
We'll, I got $500 a month from
the city manager movement"
He said he was paid the $500 four
or five months about the time of the
election. and that one payment was
made in July. after the election.
McNay testified that he now is
politician living near Danville, Ind,
that he formerly was lawyer and
politician and resigned as state titan
of the khan Jan. rs, 1926.
He said "Frater" came to his Of
flee and attempted to sell him the
machine, a Lincoln sedan. He re-
fused to buy it, but loaned him
81 900 and kept the car as security,
taking the certificate Of title in his
own name. About nineteen days
later "Frater" came back and got
the car and he reassigned it to him,
McNay said.
Bridges Put on Stand
He identified photostatic copy
of a Pennsylvania certificate of
title obtained on the same car by
u. w. Garrett" as the one he signed
over to "Frater." Garrett" has
been shown by the government to
be Roy Huntington, fugitive defend
ant in the case and brother of
Joseph M. Huntington, present head
of the Ku-Klan Klan in Indiana.
o. P. Bridges, brother of Charles
Bridges, state policeman who worked
up the theft ring case, was put on
by the defense and denied he had
ever seen McNay either of the Huff
ingtons, Baldwin or w. Lee Smith,
former klan grand dragon, also q
defendant, together.
Bridges is an employe of the auto
license division at the statehouse,
but at the time of the "hot" car
deal was employed in McNay's
Office.
Smith Is Witness
Smith, on the stand in his own
defense, blamed his connection with
q "hot" car transaction which in
volved him in the case on Ted Bald
win, brother of Leo (Te6 Baldwin,
also is one of the defendants.
Fred Binzer, Terre Haute optome-
trist on the stand earlier today,
and Wolf Sussman, local jeweler,
and Jacob Mortimer Wohlfeld, local
furriers who testified Thursday,
also blamed their purchase of hot"
cars on Baldwin.
The government contends that al
though the BaldWins we're leaders
in the stolen car ring some of the
other defendants knew they we're
buying stolen cars and others aided
in the sales.
Auditor Is Witness
.l-t
w. G. Wickerham, an auditor,
testified that in January he changed
the bookkeeping system at the
Traugott store and identified cards
from the filing system of the store
which showed check transactions
of the company since that time.
The cards were admitted as evil
dence, being intended by the de-
Tense to prove that others among
the alleged conspirators and busi-
ness houses cashed numerous checks
for Traugott to provide him with
cash for his business. The govern