The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-11
ADAMS CLAIMS
SENATOR AIDED
PERJURY PLOT
Charges $1,000 Paid
Toward Expenses of At
tempt to Frame Editors.
LINKS COFFIN IN FRAUD
Carried Testimony Secured
by Bride to Federal
Jury, Assertion.

"a Senator's" contribution of
$4,000 to the expense of the at
tempted "frame-up" of Thomas H.
Adams, Vincennes editor, and Boyd
Gurley, editor of The Indianapolis
Times, on 'perjured testimony"
would be revealed by opening the
records of the Marion County grand
jury, declared Adams, candidate for
the Republican nomination for
Governor, in a campaign speech
broadcast from Station WKBF here
Tuesday night.
Bitterly aSsailing George V. Cof-
fin, county and city Republican
chairman as the keystone upon
which the whole edifice of corrup-
ton in Indiana was built" Adams
charged:
Coffin carried perjured testimony
to the district attorneys Office in
the Federal Bldg. and urged Ward
(Albert Ward. district attorney to
indict the newspaper men. It was
was so disgusting that the district
attorney hurriedly adjourned the
Federal grand j-ry."
Charges Evidence Forged
"Who paid for all the frame-up
Of Klinck earl Klinck, lieutenant
of D. c. Stephenson and Coffin in
the six months work?" Adams
asked.
Let the Marion County grand
jury tell the story of the Senator
who contributed $4,000 toward the
expense of the frame-up."
Senator James E. Watson was
known to have testified before the
grand jury in the course of the
'frame-up" investigation.
KlinCk is now awaiting trial in
Criminal Court. charged witn hav-
ing drawn up a false affidavit
against Adams and Gurley which,
it is alleged, he had William Rogers,
auto salesman, sign. The alleged
fraudulent affidavit set out that
Rogers received instructions and
expense money from Adams and
Gurley to testify before Senator
James A. Reed at St. Louis, that
he had seen Senator James E.
Watson's Khan membership card.
THE secret and invisible scheme
Of lawyers and leaders to corrupt
evidence for the Federal grand
jury" Adams continued, "waS shown
in the Klinck case, where Klinck
was paid by the invincible hand of
the invincible crew thousands of
dollars to work up forged and per-
jured evidence to District Attorney
Ward, and did supply said fraudu-
lent papers to go to the grand jury.
Instead of indicting the crooked
crew in this Federal court, Kick
was indicted in the Marion court"
Flags Coffin Regime
Adams said Cofin's power was
achieved by the aid of Stephenson.
who three years ago declared that
he drew this money CS5OO to buy
and bride precinct men to put over
Coffin as chairman.
What has the bossism, the cor
ruption of Coffin given to the
Stat2?" Adams asked.
1T gave us Ed Jackson, free from
a prison cell only because of the
statute of limitations.
Arthur Robinson still the friend
of Coffin.
"Schortemeier (Secretary of State
Frederick E. Schortemeier), who
hopes to tie the followers of
Stephenson to votes of the unthink-
ing and put the secretary of State
in the Governors chair"
Mayor John L. Duvall, six council
men subsequently indicted, and Con-
gresham Ralph E. Updike were
other gifts of the Coffin regime,
Adams said.
Attacks Jewett and Leslie
Adams turned on two rival candi-
dates for the Republican guberna-
tional nomination with the words:
81 am asking you to ask Char
lie Jewett, respectable candidate,
whether he does not have an under
standing with Senator Watson
which includes the delivery of del
egates by Boss Coffin?
Il am asking you to ask Harry
Leslie to tell you who cracked the
whip last winter when, he as the
speaker of the House and the most
powerful Republican MEMBER, as
sisted in sitting an investigation of
corruption in this State.
Republicans outside of Indian
apolis are anxiously looking to the
Republicans within Marion County
for a real house cleaning at the
primary May 8. They are hoping
and praying that Boss Coffin will
be defeated in his program"