Show GROUP I DRAGGED INTO POLITICAL MESS BY REVELATIONS REVELATION Governor Jackson Fig Fig- Figures Figures ures tires In Disclosure of Canceled Checks STATE STArE IS AROUSED Scandal Dates To ro Control of Government By Stephenson INDIANAPOLIS July 12 l.-By l. By ByThe The Associated A. A Press Press Allegations Allegations Involving two public officials and the Republican n state committee In irs con con- connection connection connection with the investigation being made into charges ch of political cor cor- corruption corruption In Indiana were made here yesterday A reported near physical clash at Michigan City between Wal Vial Walter Walter ter H. H Daly warden of the state prison prison I son there where D. D C. C Stephenson former Ku Klux Kux Klan grand dragon dragonIs Is serving a life term for murder and Robert t H. H Moore re attorney for Steph Steph- Stephenson Stephenson I r. r enson s further r enlivened yesterdays yesterday's t r developments The name of Governor Ed Jack Jack- Jackson Jackson Jackson son was as brought Into the Investigation tion following the publication by a local newspaper of a facsimile of a a. check for 2500 alleged to have been given Governor Jackson by Stephen- Stephen Stephenson son In September 1923 when the thc latter was purported to have been a power In state st te politics The check was alleged to have been made for forthe forthe forthe the use of the governor in his primary primary primary mary campaign for the governorship The check carried the endorsement of Ed Jackson and was said to have been one fourth of Stephen- Stephen Stephenson son claims he gave the governor go prior to the thc latter's Jatter's nomination DENIES CHARGES CHAnGES The governor previously has denied all charges of political fraud The newspaper printing t the alleged il tri g 3 Jackson Ja s check announced that t It was In possession of 32 original papers and checks involving state city and county officials William H H. Remy prosecutor o of Marlon Marion county got hold of one of the alleged original bits of evidence when Lloyd O. O Hill one of Stephen- Stephen Stephenson's Stephensons Stephensons Stephenson's sons son's attorneys gave gae the prosecutor a copy of an agreement to sald said to have been entered en red Into be between be- be between between tween Stephenson and Claude M M. Worley Inspector of Indianapolis de do- do The alleged agreement was as asto to result in Worley's appointment as police chief in the administration o of Mayor Maor John L. L Duval and in letting Stephenson e name ame certain ln men on the police k force e EDITOR IN I FIGHT The Republican state committee was mentioned when Thomas H H. Adams Ad Ad- Adams Adams ams publisher of the Vincennes Commercial declared the committee was the recipient of a check cheek from Irons Stephenson for a II large sum of money Adams would not reveal further in information in- in information information formation about the check or a adeal adeal adeal deal which he Intimated was Voas made Adams declared that the new docu docu- evidence which he h said raid he had viewed warranted a special ses ses- session session ses- ses sion of the legislature to cleanse it itself it- it itself itself self and vindicate the decent fight for clean government go that has been made The clash at the state prison was said to have ha occurred when Warden Daly read some notes Moore had h d tak talc taken taken en while interviewing Stephenson and declared he could not allow Moore to w take the notes with him Moore offered to destroy the notes note but Daly demurred and then Moore charged Daly with the Intention of making copies of the memoranda to give to certain friends o oThe The notes were ere said to have con con- contained contained tamed Instructions by Stephenson to his attorneys and a n statement to the press gf that t he el was not fo engaged nJ In a I blackmail or o Intimidation ca scheme e in inan 1 Inan an effort to have the governor grant gran I I his release from his conviction for forthe forthe forthe the murder of Madge cr nn an I Indianapolis girl I |