McCray is Named in 8 Indictments

From The Indianapolis Times, Friday, November 30, 1923: Gov. Warren McCray was accused of embezzlement, grand larceny, forgery, false statements, obtaining money under false pretenses, and issuing fraudulent checks in an eight-count indictment issued today by the Marion County grand jury. McCray is charged with embezzling $10,000 (2022: $176,658) of state money, $155,000 (2022: $2,738,192) from the Indiana state board of agriculture, and $25,000 (2022: $441,644) from the Discount & Deposit State Bank in Kentland, Indiana. He also is accused of writing checks totaling $6,665.38 (2022: $117,742) on the Kentland bank when he had no funds in the bank. The investigation began with a request from the Marion National Bank, one of McCray’s creditors. A special prosecutor started the inquiry October 5, 1923 after Marion County prosecutor, William P. Evans, recused himself because he is a son-in-law of the governor.

“McCray is Named in 8 Indictments,” The Indianapolis Times, 30 November 1923, p. 1:2

Full Benefits of Sewage Plant Will Cost $560,000 More

From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, November 22, 1923:  Plans have been made for interceptor sewer extensions on Fall Creek and Pleasant Run.  Under present conditions only 80 percent of the daily sewage flow will be drained into the disposal plant with the remainder continuing to pour into White River without the interceptors.  The interceptors will collect sanitary sewage while storm water is permitted to overflow into outfalls reaching the water courses.  Unless heavily loaded with sanitary sewage, storm water is practically innocuous, and during heavy rainfall the sewage in the streams is greatly diluted so it does not become either a nuisance or a menace to health, although it is not potable.    Irvington taxpayers are eager to assume the cost of the Pleasant Run interceptor sewer extension because it will relieve an unsanitary condition that has existed there for years.

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“Full Benefits of Sewage Plant Will Cost $560,000 More,” The Indianapolis Star, 22 November 1923, p. 1:1

Lady Traffic Cops 'Do Stuff' Midst Crowd and Smart Cracks

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, November 11, 1923:  Lady traffic cops took to the corner of Meridian and Washington Street yesterday as a fitting climax to “No Accident Week” demonstrating once more that the weaker sex is edging into pastures heretofore reserved to men.  The accident prevention bureau, aided by the traffic squad, recruited four lady drivers of high-powered motor cars for traffic duty to thus have a finer understanding of the sorrows, trial, difficulties, worries, and narrow escapes of traffic cops.  Outfitted in distinctive police breeches, cap, and coat with a star properly affixed, the ladies put on white kid gloves and after a brief lesson on the traffic tower lights and the number of whistle toots, took a position at the downtown intersection, pushing back jaywalkers while coaches, trucks and flivvers awaited the wave of the white glove.    

“Lady Traffic Cops ’Do Stuff’ Midst Crowd and Smart Cracks,” The Indianapolis Star, 9 November 1923, p. 12:3