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...pretty good horse and had a "kind of nice gait." He was called The Senator, in honor of U. S. Senator James E. Watson of Indiana. Three terms served The Senator, one with Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana, one with David C. Stephenson, onetime Klan Dragon, one with Bert Schultze, Indiana apple-grower. It was during his service with Mr. Schultze that The Senator, greedily seizing a corncob, got that same corncob stuck fast in his throat. The Senator gasped, choked, struggled, died...
...expose of Indiana politics which Mr. Stephenson (in jail since April 1925 for murder) last fortnight began (TIME, July 18). Mr. Stephenson had begun his expose by confiding to Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy many of the deeds performed during his (Mr. Stephenson's) tenure of office as Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan which then (1924) constituted the "invisible government" of Indiana. Last week Mr. Stephenson took the Indianapolis Times into his confidence and sent to the Times many of the documents contained in the "little black box" where he had foresightedly deposited written evidence...
...Dragon's Bride...
...Grand Dragon & Mrs. W. L. Smith of the Indiana Klu Klux Klan, an apology for publishing (with many another periodical) announcement that Mrs. Smith (the whilom Katharine Kalbig) is a Roman Catholic (TIME, May 16). Mrs. Smith's latest statement: "I am not a Catholic but on the contrary have been baptized in the Baptist Church, of which I am a devout believer and an active member and attendant...
Married. W. Lee Smith, 32, Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klu Klux Klan; to Katharine Halbig, 24; secretly, after eloping; at Louisville, Ill. Indiana Klansmen, discovering last week that the bride is a Roman Catholic, were reported to be "in a rage...