Word: stephenson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Ed Jackson, Indiana, at present more or less involved in the Ku Klux Klan disclosures emanating from David C. Stephenson (see CORRUPTION), said that he had a sympathetic interest in all the questions discussed and was willing to cooperate fully in bettering the country...
...last week, through Attorney Robert Moore of Michigan City, Ind., announced David Curtis Stephenson, who recently (TIME, July 18, 25) began throwing verbal and documentary bombs at various Indiana officials from his life-prisoner's cell in the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City. Mr. Stephenson, irate at getting no help in his attempts to escape serving his sentence for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, began his disclosures of Ku Klux Klan rule in Indiana by holding a long conference with Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy of Marion County, Ind. Then he released certain checks to Indianapolis papers-checks...
Stenographer. First Mr. Stephenson sent word to Miss Mildred Meade, his onetime stenographer, to tell Prosecutor Remy all that she knew concerning the Stephenson regime. What Miss Meade told Mr. Remy has not been made public...
Black Box. Then Mr. Stephenson gave L. G. Julian, onetime business associate and also custodian of the much discussed "black box" in which the bulk of Mr. Stephenson's documentary evidence was believed hidden, permission to turn over the black box to Prosecutor Remy. There were really two black boxes, both of which the Prosecutor received. The contents of the boxes were not made public, but it was announced that they included, among other papers, checks for $21,000 and for $24,000. Mr. Remy appeared pleased at the evidence disclosed...
Grand Jury. Finally Mr. Stephenson himself testified before the Grand Jury now engaged in investigating charges of corrupt politics in Indiana. Taken from Michigan City to Indianapolis under prison guard escort, Mr. Stephenson spent more than five hours before the Grand Jury, smoked cigars with gusto, was then motored back to jail where no cigars are permitted. The jury also heard testimony from Mis? Meade and had previously been given the evidence found in the black boxes. After hearing the Stephenson story the jury refused to adjourn, although the term of criminal court for which they were sitting ended last...