Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1925 — Page 22
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BLAZER TO BE LMER MILL BOSS, HE SAYS Daughter Sorry Jury Disagreed, but Happy 'Mercy Slayer’ Is Free. liu United Press LITTLETON, Colo., Nov. 13. The cloud that has hung over the heads of Dr. Harold E. Blazer and his daughter, Frances Bishop, for many years, was lifted today. Refreshed after a peaceful night’s rest, Blazer was in good spirits today. He did not have much to say about his trial, but the old grayhaired doctor is now looking toward the future. Blazer was cleared by a State dismissal action of all charges of killing his imbecile daughter in district court yesterday. “I’m going down to Chama, N. M., and become a mill foreman,” laid Blazer. "I don’t know how soon i Will go. I have a friend down there who has lumber interests and lie wants me to become a sawmill foreman.” ' i-.. Mrs. Frances Bishop, who ha3 borne a heavier burden throughout Mie trial than her father, appeared relieved today. “I never believed they would convict father,” she said, “but I don’t like the idea of a hung jury. I am glad that he was absolved of all f hings.”
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Poster Winner
Emanuel Farley has been announced by John B. Reynolds, president of the Little Theatre Society of Indiana, as the winner of tho first monthly poster contest of the organization. Farley is a student of the John Herron Art Institute. The contest was held on the subject of “Minick,” the first production of the Little Theatre Society of the season. Ralph Cooney, Murray Wickard and Jobey Adams were judges. The art committee of the Little Theatre sponsors the contests. The committe includs: Mrs. J. D. Pierce, chairman- Mrs. Martha C. Bishop, Mrs. Janet Bowles, Lewis Finch, Miss Mary Chilton Cray, Robert Hollingsworth, Miss Grace Margaret Kiess, Oakley Richey, Miss Grace Shoup, Chelsea Stewart and Murray Wickard.
mi DEMANDS TRIO’S DEATH (Continued From Page II) put him on the stand for the defense, I turned him down and the State put him on. He’s no different from those four poor niggers they brought up here. They had to testify. They were in the power of the State and in the clutches of the law.” Christian closed with an appeal to the patriotism of the jurors and to their heroism, citing the cases of Christ, Joan of Arc and John Brown, as others who were persecuted. Heath Demanded Cox In his speech repeated his plea made late Thursday that all the defendants be put to death. Tossing his silvery shock of hair to and fro, he shouted: “All three of these men must pay the extreme penalty of the law for this crime, else the law confesses it-self-subordinate to D. C. Stephenson, a beastly chieftain of the middle ages. Are -you going to have that reproach cast on the good county of Hamilton? I was born in Hamilton and God forbid such an outcome. He first went into a lengthy explanation of each of the four counts of the indictment in order to show why the State had clung to all four counts instead of concentrating on one. On the first count, Cox propounded the following State’s theory: “The luring of Madge Oberholtzer to the home of D. C. Stephenson and her entrapment there; the terrorizing and forcing her to drink liquor or a drug—you have the right to dpaw the inference on whether it was one or both; her attack on the train; her taking of the poison uider mental compulsion; the return, the long drive in Stephenson’s celebrated Cadillac limousine; the imprisonment in Stephenson’s garage without the ministration of a woman, in the hands of a gorilla. “Look at the sardonic grin on his face. You can’t get him—adament! Concrete!” Inman leaped to his feet and shouted an objection and Judge Sparks said: “You must not refer to the look or demeanor of any person unless he’s on the stand.” Klinck, toward whom Cox’s diatribe was aimed, continued to laugh. Second Count On the second count of tho Indictment Cox presented the theory that the defendants caused her to adminthe poison, thus causing her death. That the defendants attacked her in a vicious attempt to ravish her and “that she died as a result” was Cox’s theory on the third count. On the fourth count Cox’s theory was: “Having lured her to Stephenson’s house, having terrorized her, drugged her, beaten her, the law placed on them a duty which in the non-fulfillment, becomes murder.” Annswering a number of legal citations presented Thursday by Ira M. Holmes, defense attorney, Cox declared that not a one was applicable to this case. Went Unwillingly “Mr. Holmes said these defendants owed Madge Oberholtzer noth ing. I can’t appreciate that branch of logic. If it were true that she willingly went on a drunken spree, it would have been different,” “Madge Oberholtzer was not a harlot. She was not a willing participant, she was a good women —a good daughter. The law presumes her to have been a good woman, and that presumption is home out by the fact that she licit) a responsible position in the State’s educational system. * Glaring fiercely at the defendant, Cox declared. “They will, buy insinuation, and innuedo, try to lead you to believe Madge Oberholtzer was a had woman. If she had been bad she would have been alive today.” Striding over to Inman, and fairly convulsing with anger. Cox cried out, “Are you going to permit this unparalleled, this unequaled painter of words, this man of stately bearing, and melodious voice—are you going to allow liim to take the brush of scandal and write, the scarlet letter on Madge OberhoUzer’s tomb? Inman leaned forward with his elbow on the arm of his chair. His countenance betrayed no emotion.
In fact it did not seem that he even noticed Cox, who was standing over him pouting forth epithets. Turns to Jury Turning from Inman, Cox said to the jury. “Remember how the dogs harked that night, in Stephenson’s garage? These men would not have treated one of Stephenson’s dogs, like they treated Madge Oberholtzer. Why did they do it? Why did they keep her all night in a garage? Did they feel she was so prostrated by her experiences (.hat she wouldn’t be able to recall or tell what had happened?” Pausing, appraising tho jurymen one by one, Cox said, “I think I know what is in every good man’s heart regarding this case.” An awesome silence filled the courtroom after Cox's last remark. Jurors Meet “I told you at the beginning of this case that Madge Oberholtzer would he the principal witness.” Cox drew a picture of Klinck putting Madge’s clothes on her preparatory to faking her home, and contrasted it with the time when her mother dressed her when site was a little girl. Tears stood in the eyes of two of the jurors. Cox then turned to the defense contention that Asa J. Smith fabricated the dying statement. “Attorney Holmes told you, though he was not sworn as a witness, that Asa J. Smith fabricated this statement. What about Dr. Kingsbury’s testimony, told to him by Madge the morning of her return? It is the same in substance.” Judge Annoyed At this point Otto Cox, an Indianapolis attorney, elbowed his way in the back door through the throng of spectators, crowding around the press table and the defendants. They got the criminal docket off the judge’s bench to consult it about some case, venued here from Indianapolis and creating quite a bustle. “I wish you wouldn’t make so much noise while these arguments are going on,” said Judge Sparks, looking up from writing his instrucWith him was County Clerk Mann, tions. “You didn’t mean that hr me, did you. Judge?” asked Charles E. Cox, pausing and looking around. “No, no, go on, go on,” said Sparks, resuming his task. Judge Sparks worked all day Thursday during the arguments, preparing his instructions. He was up all night Thursday night at the same work, and consequently was not in a very pleasant mood today. The defense alone submitted to Judge Sparks 361 instructions on the law which he had to read and accept or reject. Wrongful rejection of a single instruction the de-i sense offers is ground for Supreme Court reversal. The Introduction
Attorney Cox then touched on the State’s evidence Madge was introduced to Stephenson the first time Jan. 12, and declared the defense failed to refute this point. “Where’s Mrs. Eads—Miss Meade, I mean, who was Stephenson’s guest, and sat across the fable from Madge Oberholtzer and Stanley Ilill, if it wasn’t true. Not a soul refuted Madge’s statement of Hill’s testimony.” Madge went on the trip without a hat, without a change of clothes, Cox said. She would have told her mother some story to delude her and would have made arrangements for the trip if she had intended to go, he said. How do they defend against the impregnable wall of corroborative evidence raised by the State, these chevaliers, these knights pledged to defend the sanctity of the home, and the sanctity of womanhood?” he said sarcastically, “By slandering the dead they have killed.” “Who bears false witness?” yelled Cox in a rising scream. Women Giggle He was interrupted by Judge Sparks, who felt called upon to reprimand women in the back of the courtroom, and out in the hall, who had been talking and giggling continuously for half an hour. “You ladies there in the door, and
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out in the hall, keep quiet, or I’ll have to take steps to clear the hall,” he said. Silence reigned from then on. “Stephenson knew he was indicted and he went a-flsliing,” said Cox. “Do you remember the line from an old old song, ‘Jesus wept, Moses slept, and the devil went afishing.’ ” * Cox whooped out the word “devil” in a tone which startled the audience “Ailstock and Clawson, the two gentlemen from Columbus, who knew their master’s voice, appeared here. You remember that when Prosecutor Remy questioned them they said someone hailed them from an automobile, and they recognized the voire of D. C. Stephenson. They knew their master's voice, and they appeared here to do their master’s bidding.” During Cox’s discourse, Steplienso sat erect, gazing at his bitter opponent with a slight smile of disdain on his lips. Cox made his first plea for death penalty late Thursday, when lie closed the day's talk. “If a slieep-killing cur got into your barn and killed your ewe lamb, would you spare him?” Cos demanded in stentorian tones to the jury, which lias ten farmers on it. “No, you would kill him! And when these defendants —Stephepson, the degenerate; Klinck, the gorilla; and Gentry, the iron man—got into the Oberholtzer fold and destroyed the one ewe lamb of George and Matilda Oberholtzer, the law should kill them.” Shaking his mane of iron-gray hair, Cox waved his arms and shook his fists. Faces of many women spectators turned pale at the denunciation of the defendants and the exceeding bitterness of Cox’s speech. Time and again he advanced to the defendants’ table where the trio sat .unmoved by the epithets, and shook his fist in Stephenson’s face, his own countenance purple with passion.
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KLAN HUNTS FOR DUVALL (Continued From Page 1) very valuable colored votes to Duvall, made his reported visit to Ilinois. Armitage There Armitage left Duvall last Sunday, it is said. When. Bill left John, McGee was off the slate for police chief. Up to that time Duvall, it is said, had fully intended to abide by the Klan’s wishes Bill didn’t have a particular candidate for police chief so Duvall named Johnson, entirely acceptable to Coffin. Anyone acceptable to Coffin isn’t very acceptable to the Klan. Bill had a couple of candidates for tho board of works and city civil engineer. So did Coffin! Likewise the Klan. When Bill last conferred with Duvall he had the two board memberships tucked away in his vest, close friends say. But when Duvall named the board members Bill lost his vest. Thursday when Duvall named George C. Schmidt for city engineer both Armitage and the Klan lost. Coffin won again. Coffin “had seen” Duval meanwhile. Coffin left word here he had gone hunting. There are good paved roads most of the way to Pekin. Hutsell Too The Klan doesn’t like appointment of Jesse Hutsell as fire chief. Its slate called for the naming of Roy Phillips, who got nothing better than the first assistant fire chief’s badge. Duvall named his good personal •friend, John Collins, city purchasing agent. Tne Klan had another man picked. The Klan had Dan Bebee selected for city engineer, but Duvall has renamed him assistant city engineer
and given the $3,500 a year Job to Schmidt, Coffin’s man. Armitage shows no signs of distress. He aspires to hold his prestige in colored wards and bide his time for a comebacks Sets Fight Bill Isn’t going out of his way to antagonize any one. Asked about a trip to Pekin and how he felt about losing the works board and city engineer appointments he smiled and said: “I haven't seen Duvall. Some of my good friends don’t know all my business.”
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