CORRUPTION: In Indiana

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There have been two previous juries investigating Indiana politics. The first (in 1926) returned no indictments, for though the vote in favor of indicting was 4 to 2, a vote of 5 to 1 is necessary for action in Indiana. Mr. Stephenson had refused to testify at this jury sitting, had also, from a prison cell, predicted the 4 to 2 vote. One Thomas V. Miller, one-time Stephenson attorney, said that Stephenson's refusal to testify had resulted from an interview with one Jack Maroney, U. S. Department of Justice agent and friend of U. S. Senator James E. Watson of Indiana. Mr. Miller said that Mr. Stephenson was promised "immunity and free legal counsel if he wouldn't testify till after the election."

The second grand jury was dissolved (in the spring of 1927) after one of its members claimed that he had been approached with a bribe to refrain from indicting Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis. It was said that the present jury was working in close co-operation with Prosecutor Remy and indictments were confidently expected.