Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, finally, Governor Ed Jackson walked into the sheriff's office in Indianapolis and said: "I want to be arrested." He had been indicted...
Charges. What Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy will seek to prove at Governor Jackson's trial next month are the following allegations: 1) That, in 1923, Ed Jackson, then secretary of state, approached Warren T. McCray, then Indiana's governor, with the proposition that one James E. McDonald be appointed prosecuting attorney of Marion County. This office was vacant because Mr. McCray had just been indicted in the criminal courts for a financial felony, and Prose- cuting Attorney Williams P. Evans had resigned, being Mr. McCray's son-in-law. 2) That Ed Jackson offered the indicted...
Indicted last week with Governor Ed Jackson for his alleged chicanery, were Robert I. Marsh, his one-time law partner, and George V. Coffin, Republican boss of Marion County. David C. Stephenson is already in jail for life, as a murderer...
...Defense. Governor Jackson, long though he had been faced with the possibility of his indictment, had not until last week answered the widely-circulated charges against him. Last week he declared that he had indeed called on Mr. Mc-Cray for the McDonald appointment, not with cash or immunity in hand but at the request of Bishop H. H. Fout of the United Brethren sect. Bishop Fout last week corroborated this statement so far as he was able...
...Governor Jackson's friends, the Messrs. Marsh and Coffin, offered no additional protests of innocence. Mayor Duvall had nothing...