New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1928, Page 3

D JACKSON IS sonally had put the alleged bribe before McCray. In a statement the attorneys said Jackson was pre- NEW BRITA | state used only seven witnesses. For- | mer Governor McCray and his at- torney, James E. Noel, both testi- r o CONGRESS ATHALF == 1 carly Farm Bill ! predicf ting brief con- | pas; Next age. DATLY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1928. from the sixth floor of the Biltmore | hotel. Mrs. Levis' husband told police NOW IN PROGRESS vailed upon to do their bidding be-|fled that Jackson, then secretary of | Tie MeNary farin price stabiliza- that his wife recently underwent cause of Coffin and Marsh who are |state, offered McCray the $10,000 tion bill then will be taken up in ) A Demonstration by a Factory Representative ACOUITTED BY JURY Directed Vendict Returned by Order of Judge Indianapolis, Feb. 17 UP—Caim again has descended upon Indiana’s troubled political seas and Ed Jack- son, unencumbered, totlay resumed | his duties as governor. Acquitted He was acquitted yesterday of the charge that he concealed an attempt t0 bribe former Governor Warren T. McCray in 1923 to name James E. McDonald as Marion cpunty prose- eutor. A jury returned a directed verdict of not guilty. " Special Judge Charles M. McCabe ordered the acquittal when he sus- tained a defense motion whith con- scheduled to be tried later. The governor, however, will make public his evidence as soon as the | Marsh and Coffin cases have disposed of, the statement said. fense attorneys believed the Jack- son evidence ‘“will convince fair- minded persons that the charge of his part is wholly without foundation in fact.” Prosecutor William H. Remy safd he was not prepared to say whether the state would appeal | iudge's decision or what would be | done with the cases of Marsh and | Coffin. 1 The closing minutes of the trial| were a strain on the governor. the first time he was affected visibly when Judge McCabe took most of | the afternoon to study over his de- | cision. When the verdict finally was | a; regarded as the hest cver seen | {returned he gave the crowded court |room his first smile since the trial tended the state failed to prove that | P5am: Jackson, Robert I. Marsh, local at-| torney, and George V. Coffin, Marion eounty republican chairman, had concealed the alleged bribery by keeping McCray, then governor, in fear. The statute of limitations of two years, therefore, applied in the case, The indictment was returned last fall. For a week and a day the gover- nor was on trial and during that time was able to gjve state business little of his attention. Occasionally in the morning before court opened and after adjournment at night he would go to the state house to at- tend to pressing matters, File Motion Condemns Klan y Judge McCabe in his final decision vigorously condemned the Ku Kilux Klan, fear of whose power, the state charged, kept McCray from reveal- ing the alleged offer of $10,000 and immunity from embezzlement charges then pending against him if he woMd appoint McDonald prose- cutor. | Judge McCabe said he could not| see how, any governor of Indiana | could have believed the klan could have controlled verdicts in the courts & “I am perfectly aware of the slime and disgrace of that organization,” he said. “'There is no more regrettable De- | any wrong doing or criminal act on | from the | For | fense but i England 0. |bribe. . C. Stephenson, former | Klan grand dragon and now serving a life term for murder, testified he donor of the $10.000. For- e Purchasing Agent Fred n testified that he first car. ried the alleged offer to Mc( who refuscd it. {Canada Beats Sweden | In Olympic Hockey Switzerland, Feb. 17 (® den 11 to 0 to- semi-finals or the Olym- championships. put up a stubborn de- was unable to make any |impression on the Canadian offen- | sive. | The team work of the Canadians St. Mor —Canada 1 day in th pic hockey Sweden lin Europe. | Dave Trottier, lcft wing, was the Istar of the Canadian -team. He ored five of the goals. Canada | made four goals in the first period. | four in the second and threc in the final. Switzerland today defeated Fng- !land in the semi-final of the Olym- plc hockey championships. The score was Switzerland 4, Truck Goes Into River; Two Men Are Killed Chelsea, Mass., Feb. 17 (®—A truck loaded with granite blocks crashed through a guardrail of the south drawbridge between this city and Charlestown today carrying with the scrate, ; will pas idge's obj | fee provision. Deba Program Has Been Drawn Up cxpectca o b oxte Tor Houses to Follow weeks—about the merce committee is out a flood control bi Feb, 12 (UP) —.|expected to get to wo i(‘(flngresg; reached the half way mark jof presidential year session today ready at last for action upon im- { portant legislation. Indicati WAY HATH ALREADY | Washington, By the time ons are that it | despite President tions 1o the equalization Cool- te however is nded and final | probably time in two the com- ready to, report Ui, The house is ork on the Reid A ise Al ) 2 fory at | :;.::::]}rrmma flood Dbill before "““:Coxey Plans to Make these things are out | of the way, the March 15 income tax | Republican leaders have formulat- ed a program for both houses which, the United Press learns, will guar- antee action upon pending legisla- tive issues in the following order— eturns will have been made and the | senate finance committee can then | determine whether the big tax re- | |duction bill passed by the | | house | ‘shmlld be considered in the scnate. several operations and that he be- lieved they had affected her mind. Mrs. Levis was taken to the Geor- gia receiving hospital where her in- | juries were diagnosed as a fractured kull, three broken ribs and internal injuries. The Levis' New York address is 105 West 73rd street. New Descent on Capital New York, Feb. 17.—M—"Gen- eral” Jacob 8. Coxey who led his army of unemployed on Washington from Ohio in 1894 to demand *“cheap | money,” has announced his intention | H. J. Donnelly Co., Boston Store alien property settlement, muscle Ishoals, farm relief, flood control and | Lhes¢ important item; |tax reduction. Ition June 12. From has the general approval of house (iof Junc | ; | however, they are fe leaders who have signified their in- possible. | Alien property and muscle shoals |14 they will not be under this arrangement. A final vote | is expected in the senate this after- | noon on the revised house bill fow| Leaders have expressed hope that | ©f making a new descent on the s can be clean- {ed up by the middle of May so that | time- The republican steering committee | OREressmen” will have a breathing | has decided upon this sequence and |SPac€ before the republican conven long experiens arful that their tention to conform to it as far as PFOSTam will face the delay which in 1893 to enable the government | all their programs have in the past|to print large quantitics of money to surprised if a will be cleared away quickly o get |JOUrNmeNt is delayed until the final at the real business of the session |MOMeNt before the convention. Woman Leaps From Los settlement of war claims between Germany and the United States. Muscle Shoals will come up Mon- {day with Senator Norris, republican, {Nebraska, author of the government Biltmore Hotel | Tos Angeles, Feb. 17 (UP)—Mrs. | Mary K. Levis, wife of a New York | diamond merchant, attempted sui- | cide here early today by leaping | | | Angeles capital, but not with an army thi Addressing an open-air meeting of the unemployed in Union square, he said he was going to Washington to urge passage of a bill first proposed | i be loaned to the various states and | counties on the security of non-in- | | terest bearing bonds. According to | | Coxey's plan this money then would |be used to give work to large num- | | bers of men whose labors eventually would enable the paying off of the bonds. ! He said he would head a move- | ment to “unhorse the coupon clip- | back of the government. As 2 healing and skin-soothing agent &. the wonderful Snowfire has 0o equal The unique Snowfire emollients, which give it that pleasing green colour, ensure instant relief to painful chaps and chil! lains on the feet or hands. smooth and soften dry. roughened skin. 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