In 1923, after refusing a $10,000 bribe to appoint someone else, Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana appointed honest William H. Remy prosecuting attorney for Marion County. Governor McCray soon went to Atlanta penitentiary for using the U. S. mails to defraud, the prosecutor of the case being Governor McCray's own appointee, young Mr. Remy. The latter was pointed out on the streets of Indianapolis as "that rising young prosecutor." Before long he succeeded in sending David Curtis Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan...
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