Word: stephenson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Last week, however, his bones were discovered in the closet where Indiana keeps its political skeletons, were dragged out and picked over. For he became Exhibit A in the 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...
...publication of this check left Governor Jackson in an embarrassing position, inasmuch as he had (in 1926) denied that Mr. Stephenson had given him $2,500 or any other amount for his gubernatorial campaign. When the Stephenson expose began, Governor Jackson was in Kansas, where he occupied a pulpit and gave a sermon on the text: What is a, man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? After the sermon the choir sang a hymn: "It must be told." Then back to Indianapolis went the Governor and, at first refusing to comment...
...Calendars since then had recorded some 790 different days, but those days had all been much the same to him. They would continue so, too, for he was a lifer. He would be there, in the common phrase, "from now on." Surely an unworthy end for David Curtis Stephenson who through many years had controlled the Indiana Ku Klux Klan which had controlled the politics of Indiana. In the Republican State Convention of 1924 he had patrolled the aisles of the convention hall with a gun on his hip. The men whom he had picked for office held office...
Then had come the Oberholtzer case. Twelve gentlemen of a jury had found him guilty of having abducted and attacked Madge Oberholtzer, an Indianapolis girl who had committed suicide following her disgrace. It was second degree murder and it brought David Curtis Stephenson a life sentence. Of course, life sentences were largely figures of speech-lifers were usually set free after 20 or 25 years. But even after 20 years he would come out an old man. He would have spent what are generally termed "the best years of a man's life" in the ignominious occupation of making...