From The Indianapolis News , Saturday, December 12, 1925:  D. C. Stephenson, former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon now serving a life sentence in Indiana State Prison for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, appeared in circuit court at Noblesville today where his attorneys filed motions asking his conviction of second degree murder be vacated and a new trial be granted.  After hearing defense arguments from attorney Floyd Christian, Special Judge Will Sparks overruled the motions as

From The Indianapolis Star , Sunday, November 15, 1925:  Late yesterday afternoon after deliberating five hours and 35 minutes a Hamilton County Circuit Court jury found former Indiana Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Madge Oberholtzer.  A handful of spectators, including Madge Oberholtzer’s only brother Marshall Oberholtzer, were in the courtroom during the reading of the verdict; Stephenson, pale but smiling, listened

From The Indianapolis Times , Thursday, October 29, 1925:  After thirteen days of jury selection, opening testimony began this morning in the trial of D C. Stephenson and his two co-defendants who are charged with the murder of Madge Oberholtzer.  The first witness to take the stand was Mrs. George Oberholtzer, dressed in deep mourning, her voice breaking with sobs and at times unable to speak because of her grief, told of the last time she saw her daughter – how Madge left h

From The Indianapolis Times , Monday, October 5, 1925:  D. C. Stephenson, Earl Gentry, and Earl Klinck, whose trial for the alleged murder of Madge Oberholtzer is to begin next Monday at Noblesville, have been indicted together with Fred Butler by a Marion County grand jury for arson in conspiring to burn Stephenson’s Irvington home, 5432 University Av, last April 17.  Allegedly the conspirators “willfully and maliciously set fire” to Stephenson’s house valued at $20,000 ( 20

From The Indianapolis Times , Tuesday, June 16, 1925:  A copy of the dying declaration of Madge Oberholtzer, for whose murder former...

From The Indianapolis Times , Friday, May 15, 1925:  D. C. Stephenson, Earl Gentry, and Earl Klinck will go on trial in Marion County...

From The Indianapolis News , Tuesday, April 14, 1925:  Madge Oberholtzer died this morning at her Irvington home, 5802 University Av,...

From The Indianapolis News , Friday, April 3, 1925:  Former Indiana Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson was arrested today on five charges in...