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...jury returned a verdict of guilty. The court sentenced D. C. Stephenson to life imprisonment...
From jail he has been writing letters. Two of them got past the prison authorities. He says that the murder charge was trumped up against him by his political tools who, rather than pay what they owed him, packed him off to jail. Mr. Stephenson lists among his onetime tools Governor Ed. Jackson,* Mayor J. L. Duvall of Indianapolis, and many another weaker light...
...Stephenson had by this time bought an airplane and with one Court Asher, a onetime army aviator, his secretary, clerk, and majordomo, he toured Indiana, talking to the crowds that came out on the fields to hear him. Sometimes he talked in the afternoons; sometimes at night by searchlights. Once, at Kokomo, there were 75,000 listeners around his golden plane and when he told of the dangers of Catholicism and described his hatred for Negroes and Jews, women pulled jewels* from their fingers and men tore their pockets to give him money for "the cause." Mr. Stephenson would save...
...then one spring afternoon in 1925, a detective calmly pushed past Mr. Stephenson's butler, found the Grand Dragon upstairs in a closet, took him away in a patrol wagon. An unsavory and sensational case. It was vaguely known that D. C. Stephenson had possessed some sort of political influence and the courtroom was filled. The judge, in his instructions to the jury, summed up the evidence somewhat as follows...
...night of March 15, 1925, one Madge Oberholtzer, a girl locally known as "Poor Madge," who had been connected in a minor capacity with Republican activities in Indianapolis, was led to Mr. Stephenson's house, forced to take a drink, and abducted by train to Hammond where Mr. Stephenson ravished her. In the morning she found some arsenic on the bathroom shelf. She was returned in a closed car to her father's house on March 17. Later she died...