Indiana's McCray

Someone in Indiana started a chain letter last week. It read: "Ex-Governor Warren T. McCray is honest, also he is broke. I am mailing a $1 bill to him at Indianapolis and writing letters like this to five persons (including yourself), suggesting that they do likewise and each write five more letters."

Soon Warren T. McCray, who ceased being Indiana's Governor when he was convicted of a mail fraud in 1924, was in receipt of $60. Said he: "I am deeply grateful to my unknown friend, who in such a great-hearted manner has suggested this idea of being helpful to me."

Should the chain letters reach a tenth link everywhere, the original five letters, raised to the tenth power, would net Mr. McCray $9,765,625. Lest someone should suspect this mail scheme was his own, Mr. McCray announced further:

"Although deeply grateful . . . I am not seeking charity, but only ask a chance to make good. I leave Monday for my old home in Kentland,* carrying with me nothing but kindly thoughts."

*He had been in Indianapolis to testify at the trial of Governor Jackson (TIME, Feb. 27) that Governor Jackson offered him a $10,000 bribe in 1923, and that he refused it.