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20. Feb. 2014 · Except once. In November 1925, D.C. Stephenson was on trial for murder and the chief witness against him was the murder victim herself, who on her deathbed had dictated her account.
The trial of D.C. Stephenson for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer opens in Noblesville, Indiana before Judge Will Sparks. October 30, 1925. Judge Sparks rules that Oberholtzer's dying declaration will be admitted into evidence. November 5, 1925. The defense begins to present its case. November 14, 1925.
D. C. Stephenson. David Curtiss „Steve“ Stephenson (* 21. August 1891 in Houston, Texas; † 28. Juni 1966 in Jonesborough, Tennessee) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker aus Indiana, der führendes Mitglied in der rechten Terrororganisation Ku Klux Klan gewesen war. Berühmt wurde er durch ein bestialisches Sexualverbrechen und seine ...
D. C. Stephenson Trial (1925) by Douglas O. Linder (2010) In 1925, the Indiana KKK was the largest state branch in the Klan's "Invisible Empire." The conviction in November of that year of D. C. Stephenson, the powerful Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan, for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer led to a dramatic decline in the organization's ...
Madge Oberholtzer. Madge Augustine Oberholtzer (November 10, 1896 – April 14, 1925) was an American woman whose rape and murder played a critical role in the demise of the second incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan. In March 1925, while working for the state of Indiana on an adult literacy campaign, Oberholtzer was abducted by D. C. Stephenson ...
The trial of D.C. Stephenson, Earl Klinck, and Earl Gentry for the kidnapping and murder of Madge Oberholtzer opened on October 12 before Judge Will Sparks. (Sparks replaced Judge Hines, after Hines accepted the defense's motion for a new judge.) Only after a record 260 potential jurors were interviewed, and the judge's patience with the process finally exhausted, was a jury of twelve men ...
16. März 2005 · In the summer of 1995 Noblesville, Indiana, site of the sensational 1925 homicide trial of Ku Klux Klan leader D. C. Stephenson, again drew national attention after the discovery of Klan records dating back to the 1920s. In March, Don Roberts, a local building contractor, chanced upon a trunk in the barn of a property he had recently acquired.
