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Former Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana, brother-in-law of George Ade (humorist), unsuccessful farmer, K. K. K. enthusiast, now lies sick in the Atlanta penitentiary, where he was sent two years ago for using the mails to defraud. In April, big Senator Watson, politically powerful, pleaded before President Coolidge for the convict's release; last week he tried again (bringing along the other Indiana Senator). But the convict's term of ten years, despite the convict's friends, remains unabbreviated...
Warren T. McCray, Governor of Indiana until sentenced to prison for using the mails to defraud, after being for 15 months editor of the penitentiary magazine at Atlanta and supervisor of the prison print shop, was last week relieved because of high blood pressure and assigned to less wearing duties...
...Terre Haute, it was reported that Warren T. McCray, onetime Governor of Indiana, who was sentenced to Atlanta penitentiary for using mails to defraud (TIME, May 12), is now functioning as a teacher in the prison Sunday School...
...first tried on the state charges and the jury disagreed. Last week his trial on the Federal indictments was completed. It appeared that, as he became more and more involved in his financial tangle, McCray had resorted to more and more dubious expedients. He admitted on the witness stand that he had signed the names of other people and of non-existent corporations to notes which he afterwards sold as valid obligations. The amount of these notes was about $1,000,000. He insisted, however, that he had no intent to defraud because he had indorsed the notes...
...resignation was to take effect at 10 a. m. the following day. At that hour Mr. McCray came before Judge Anderson for sentence. He had been convicted on ten counts. The Judge sentenced him to five years' imprisonment and $1,000 fine on each count?the last nine of the terms to be served concurrently i. e., 10 years in prison and $10,000 fine...