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C. OF C. HITS CITY PLAN ON MARKET, HALL Complete Disapproval Given Program for $350,000 Repair Outlay. CITE GREATER NEEDS Hospital Expansion, Flood ( Prevention Advocated fas Necessary. Complete disapproval of the city administration’s proposal to spend $350,000 for remodeling city market and Tomlinson Hall, when so many Improvements vital to public health and safety cry for attention was voiced today by the Chamber of Commerce civic affairs committee. City hospital should be enlarged, flood prevention extended, the police and fire telegraph system replaced, and the Irvington sewer financed before the city does more than spend a small sum upon sanitation at city market, the committee recommends. Approve Committee Report The committee, headed by William {Fortune, upon request of Mayor Duvall on March 30, gave to a subcommittee headed by Winfield Milter the task of surveying the jnunicipal needs. The subcommittee’s report was adopted Wednesday by the whole committee, and approved and sent to Duvall this afternoon by Chamber directors. The committee reports it found various departments general city proposing to spend $5,107,357 for improvements for which bonds would be issued. This would bring the city within $620,000 of its bonded indebtedness limit of $12,934,987.60, the total outstanding debt as of July 1, 1927 being $7,294,550. Danger Is Cited This would be dangerous, the committee says, because the city each year must make temporary loans of hundreds of thousands of dollars to meet deficits in the general fund before taxes are collected. The improvement program recommended by the committee totals $3,757,357, leaving a bonding margin of $1,973,000. “There should be a margin of at least $1,000,000 at all times, above every other consideration, for emergencies that might arise with sudden disaster,” says the report. “We strongly believe that the city should not consider reducing its bonding power materially below $2,000,000.” Advocates Trimming The committee says it feels some of its own recommendations should be trimmed. The report says the committee found municipal plans calling for: 1. Market house and Tomlinson Hall repair, costing $350,000. 2. Flood prevention, costing $1,152,357. 3. Purchase of coliseum site for $1,000,000 and construction of building by private corporation, which would lease it to city. 4. New fire and police telegraph system, costing $418,000. 6. Purchase of sites and erection of two new fire stations for $90,000. 7. City hospital additions, to cost $2,000,000. Gives Recommendations The committee recommends that only these improvements be carried out and in this order: 1. City hospital additions to cost as much below $2,000,000 as more accurate estimating of cost and careful planning to eliminate extravagant features can accomplish. 2. Flood prevention, $1,152,357. 3. New fire and police telegraph systems, $415,000. 4. Irvington sewer; city’s share, SIOO,OOO. The committee approves the $578, 625 improvement program of the park department, but sounds should hold down because of rapidly mounting taxes. It points out that the recommended program for the general city would add 5 cents a year to the tax levy and the park program 1 cent. PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED Jogo-Slavia King Entrusts Premier With New Elections. By United Press LONDON, June 16.—King Alexander of Jugo-Slavia has decreed the dissolution of parliament, dispatches from Belgrade said today, entrusting Premier Vukitchevitch with arranging for new elections Sept. 11. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 56 10 a. m 65 7 a. m 57 11 a. m 67 8 a. m 60 12 <noon) ... 69 9 a. m 62 1 p. rn 69 HUler Office Supply Cos. Main 0612. fib serve to sell you again.—Adv.

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VOLUME 39—NUMBER 31

LOWDEN BOOM FOR PRESIDENCY OPENED lowa Committee Head Lauds Illinois Man at Picnic— Scores Coolidge for Farm Relief Failure.

By United Press EMMETTSBURG, lowa, June 16. —At a mammoth picnic arranged for the occasion, the campaign in the Middle West to back Frank O. Lowden of Illinois for the Republican nomination for President of the United States was formally launched today. Frank J. Lund, chairman of the lowa Lowden committee, delivering the principal address, scored President Coolidge for his “failure to heed the cry of agriculture for farm relief,” characterized Secretary of Agriculture Jardine as a “traitor” to the farmer, and attacked the President’s third term aspirations. Several thousand persons from a dozen northwest lowa counties attended the gathering, which Lund

SCHOLL GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE Slayer of Children Unmoved by Court’s Edict. By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., June 16. Walter SchoH, 33 years old, former Indianapolis man, slayer of his two children, Vivian, 8, and Donald, 6, by strangling them tn a Gary cottage, today was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Grant Crumpacker of the Porter Circuit Court. Scholl, who took the verdict stoically, was called an “intellectual and moral misfit” by Judge Crumpacker in the lengthy opinion he read preceding pronouncement of sentence. The Rev. and Mrs. Charles A. Scholl, the slayer’s aged parents, were in the courtroom. The father arose to speak when the judge concluded, but the court stopped him. “I don’t want any display here,” Judge Crumpacker said to him. SEES HAPPIER CITY Life Insurance Head Lauds Manager Plan. “The city manager movement is a splendid effort to make this Indianapolis a better, happier and more prosperous city,” said Frank P. Manly, Indianapolis Life Insurance Company president, today at the Indianapolis Advertising Club luncheon at the Spink-Arms. “It is an earnest effort to make our beautiful, promising city a brighter, cleaner and healthier place for training development and happiness of our families. Manly said the “best citizens” are sponsoring the movement and politicians, preying on the public, are fighting the drive for better government. CHAPLIN TRIAL DAY SET Divorce Court Fans Expect Sensational Case; on Docket Aug. 22. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 16. Hollywood divorce court fans today were anticipating Aug. 22, the date set for trial of the contested Chaplin divorce suit Attorneys apparently were ready for one of the most sensational and bitter of all motion picture colony divorce cases when the date was set yesterday by order of Presiding Judge Walton J. Wood. Mrs. Chaplin accused the comedian of cruelty, infidelity, with marrying her only under duress with no intention of fulfilling his marriage vows. Chaplin filed his answer and cross complaint, denying all of her charges and accusing his wife of excessive drinking, “friendships” with unnamed men and extreme cruelty. SHORT, BUT OFFICIAL One-Mile Railroad Incorporated— Has Full Equipment. Bu United Press . . FISHKILL, N. Y., June 16.—A one-mile railroad here has been incorporated. It is a narrow gauge road on the estate of W. Cecil Gage, i It has locomotives, passenger cars, bridges, tunnels, signal lights and all the equipment and appurtenances of a full sized road.

BY EDWIN V. O’NEEL Indianapolis paid brief, but fitting, tribute to Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh, whose special Pennsylvania train to St. Louis stopped for five minutes at the Union Station here today. The welcome for the mother of Col. Charles Lindbergh, youthful hero of the ai..\ was less elaborate than planned, as her Pennsylvania special, “The Spirit of St. Louis,” arrived at 8:25 a. m. instead of 10 a. m., as scheduled. Mrs. Lindbergh, attractively

described as a “preliminary opening of the Lowden campaign,” with the “main bout to follow at a future date.” He hailed Lowden as the “greatest friend the American farmer has today.” “We want him and we need him, for he is our leading advocate today,” Lund continued. “He is big enough and broad enough to treat all classes fairly and justly. lowa will be heard and we do not propose to accept social favors or evasions as an answer to our demands” Lund said he was somewhat embarrassed because “Cal has never said whether he is a candidate,” but he supposed his migration to the Black Hills indicated he sought a third term.

SHIRLEY TO BE DUVALLJUDGE Attorney Accepts Special Appointment. Cassius C. Shirley, Indianapolis attorney, 1311 Fletcher Savings and Trust Bldg., this morning accepted appointment as special judge for the trial of Mayor John L. Duvall and City Controller William C. Buser on election statement fraud charges. Taking the bench after notifying Criminal Court Judge James A. Collins of his acceptance, Shirley instructed the State to appear in court Saturday at 10 a. m. to state verbally which of the charges it desires to try first or to file written motions setting out the case or cases on which it desires the defense to plead. Filing of defense objections or immediate setting of arraignment date may follow Saturday’s action Duvall and Buser were not in court. The State was represented by Special Prosecutors John W. Holtzman and Emsley W. Johnson. Prosecutor William H. Remy was in Greenfield trying a murder case, but will be present Saturday. Duvall and Buser are jointly charged with conspiracy to commit a felony for alleged filing of a false campaign statement in one affidavit. Other affidavits charge Duvall with perjury, making out a false affidavit and corrupt practices ace violations. KLAN OFFERS REWARD FOR FLOGGERS’ ARREST Imperial Wizard Denounces Governor Smith’s Candidacy. Bu United Press BELMAR. N. J.. June 16.—The Ku-Klux Klan will pay a reward for the arrest of members of a robed mob which flogged a woman and her son in Toccoa, Ga., Sunday, imperial Wizard Hiram Evans said here today. “These crimes were not committed by the Klan as an organization,” Evans said. Evans denounced Governor Alfred E. Smith in a speech to 3,050 Klansmen at Shark River and announced he would tour the country to oppose Smith’s presidential candidacy. ENDING ACCOUNTS WORK Field Examiners of State Board Listing Year’s Figures. Field examiners of the State board of accounts are working on the 1 administrative expenditures of the Indiana highway department. With a final check-up on highway expenditures and the automobile theft department of the Secretary of State’s office work for the year will be complete Chief Examiner Lawrence Orr announced. ‘WET’ REPEAT CHARGED Defendants Already Accused Said to Have Sold Liquor Again. One day after their first hearing on a liquor selling charge, Cost! Ivanhoff, Demtros Dallas and James Alexander, 546 W. Washington St., held to the grand jury on SI,OOO cash bond, sold a pint of liquor to a dry agent, June 9, it was testified today before United States Commissioner Fae Patrick. The three were released again on SI,OOO bonds and held to the Federal grand jury.

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gowned in a green crepe de chine dress, white hose and slippers, appeared on the observation platform of her special car. She appeared fresh and bright, showing no signs of her nervewracking tour to Washington and New York. Only about thirty Indianapolis persons arrived at the station in time to greet her and made their way to the elevated tracks. Mayor Duvall, Police Chief Claude F. Johnson, other city officials, and scores of plain citizens were not present, because they hart not been informed

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COOUDGE OFF EARLY TRYING FISHING LUCK Dons Hip Boots Shortly After First Breakfast in Black Hills. RETINUE TO QUARTERS Secret Service Men Use Tents —Staff Housed in School Building. Bu United Press RAPID CITY, S. D., June 18President Coolidge pulled on his high hip boots and went fishing today in the rich streams which flow about the summer White House. So eager was Coolidge to try his luck the very first day of his stay in the Black Hills that shortly after breakfast he called C. C. Gideon, a guide, to take him to the shaded mountain spots in French creeks. The scene of the Walton art was different in these rushing little rivulets from the lakes and streams of northern New York and Vermont, where the President has fished before. Shows Angling Tricks Gideon, however, explained to him all the tricks of angling and watched alone from the bank as Coolidge crawled into the stream to cast a fly. The rugged hills here are dotted with trees, and the air is brisk—at least twenty degrees cooler than Washington. A few tourists pass occasionally with foreign auto license tags. A cowboy may pause to stare or a mountain goat could stray past the soldier guard—but these are the only possible disturbances. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge arrived late yesterday and were driven over the thirty-two-mile gravel road to the lodge. They dined there, served by White House servants brought from Washington, and after a short stay on the front porch retired to rest from their tedious 1,900-mlle journey. Sleuths in Tents Secret Service men were introduced to their tent quarters and all spent their first night in the open since they have been guarding Presidents. The servants were taken care of in a building to the rear of the lodge, which up to this time has been used as a hotel. The secretarial employes wer* busy this morning setting up executive offices in the high school, Secretary Sanders occupying the principal’s office. A private telephone connects these offices with Coolidge’s lodge and a telegraph wire connects the school building with the White House in Washington, so that matters of state can be handled readily. TAX FRAUDS ALLEGED Grand Jury to Investigate Incomes of Theater Ticket Men. /if/ l tilted Preßtt NEW YORK, June 16.—Officials of twelve theater ticket agencies were held fpr the Federal grand jury today after a hearing before United States Attorney Charles Tulle on alleged income tax frauds. The officials were held under SI,OOO bail each, with exception of John Sullivan, head of an agency which bears his name, who was released on his own recognizance, because he voluntarily testified to the methods used by the agencies to obtain high prices from the public and avoid paying income taxes on their profits. TAGGED WITH BULLET Detective Shoots His Man After Bricks and Cans Fly. Bu United Press NEW YORK, June 16.—Detective John Smyth thought he was an umpire instead of a policeman when he tried to arrest John Rizzo, 17, suspected of snatching purses. Rizzo’s friends hurled bricks, milk bottles, tin cans and demijohns at Smyth while Rizzo fled. One demijohn knocked Smyth flat, but the detective fired at the retreating Rizzo and brought him down wounded.

in time of the train schedule being advanced. Mrs. Lindbergh came out on the platform to greet her enthusiastic admirers, who gathered at the rear of the private car of Gen. W. W. Atterbury, Pennsylvania Railroad president. Wearing the smile which marked her appearance at all the ceremonies in the East Mrs. Lindbergh nodded a “good morning” the Hoosiers. A ray of sunshine r fought

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Senson to support the child.

BYRD PLANNING TO FLYSUNDAY Airman at New York for Hop to Europe. Bu United Press NEW YORK, June 16.—Commander Richard E. Byrd arrived in New York today from his home in Virginia, and after his arrival word was given out that he hoped to get away Sunday on his long-awaited airplane flight to Europe. Later Byrd silenced reports that he planned to start tonight by saying weather reports weer bad. Noon tomorrow is the earliest possible time for the takeoff, he said. Weather reports indicated, however, that the flight could not start until Sunday. Byrd’s plane, the tri-motored monoplane “America,” is at Roosevelt Field, ready for flight, having passed through all preliminary tests satisfactorily. Officially, the destination of the flight will be Pans. Reports from reliable sources, although none confirmed by Byrd, however, have it that the flight may develop into one unusually spectacular. From the best information available it seemed possible that Byrd would attempt to set anew nonstop flight record.

26 MAIL PLANES SOLD Fostofflce Deportment Gets $155,835 for Machines at Action. WASHINGTON. June 16.—The Postofflce Department today sold at auction twenty-six mail planes for $155,835. The National Air Transport Company. Chicago and New York, purchased seventeen planes for $) JB,200. Three planes went to the Western Air Express, los Angeles, for $17,585. The Robertson Aircraft Corporation, St. Louis, former employers of Charles Lindbergh, bought six' planes for $30,050. 1928 GOLF TOURNEY Newton (Mass.) Club Awarded Next Year’s Title Meet Bu T?nifed Press OAKMONT COUNTRY CLUB, HULTON, Pa., June 16.—The national open golf championship of 1928 will be played at Brae Burn Country Club, Newton, Mass., it was announced here today by the United States Golf Association. LOWMAN BEGINS .WORK Treasury Secretary Assistant at Dry Enforcement Desk. 11 V a'shingtoN. June 16.—Seymour Lowman, who formally will succeed Gen. Lincoln Andrews as Assistant Secretary of Treasury Aug. 1, began his work today and virtually took charge of the Government’s enforcement service. Andrews will take a vacation in Vermont. MURDER JURORS CALLED Bu Times Soecial NEWCASTLE, Ind., June 16. Fifty prospective talesmen have been summoned to appear in Circuit Court Monday, when the trial of Melvin S. Rigsby, former town marshall at Shirley, charged with killing Herman Riggs, a farmer, in a pool- ] room argument, will begin. The j entire venire is composed of farm- | ers.

its way through the murky station skylight. \ Mrs. Lindbergh carried a black purse and shell rim glasses in her left hand. Her dark hair is streaked with gray. She made no speech except to express her thanks for floral designs and chatted in friendly manner with women who came close to the railing. Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Supreme and Appellate Court reporter, gave her a bouquet on behalf of the University of Michigan alumni club. Dr. George S. Bond and Mrs. Qond

Mrs. Nettie Stephenson Brehm (right) and Florence Catherine Stephenson, daughter of D. C. Stephenson as they appeared in Superior Court One today to prosecute the suit for $12,082 from Stephenson to support the child.

DE PINEDO ENDS RECORDHJGHT Back in Italy After FourContinent Trip. By United Press OSTIAN, Italy, June 16.—Francesco De Pinedo alighted in the harbor here at 5:02 p. m. this evening, completing the four-continent flight which began Feb. 13 at Cagliari, Sicily, and which was beset by perils over which Italy’s foremost flier triumphed. When the Santa Maria settled the water here and stopped, the Italian flier and his crew had blazed anew air trail which had crossed the equator twice, which has passed westward over the South Atlantic and eastward across the foggy, turbulent wastes of the North Atlantic. The fight linked Europe with Africa. South America and North America and the vast irregular circle of De Pinedo’s course threaded the civilizations of most of the world. Today they returned to Italy, where the greatest popular demonstration ever accorded Italian airmen awaited them. WASHINGTON HOST TO 150 FARM YOUNGSTERS City In Possession of Delegates to Delegates to First 4-H Camp. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. June 16.—One hundred fifty of America’s finest rural young men and women took possession of Washington today as the first national 4-H camp opened. These young leaders representing thirty-eight States were selected from more than 600,000 members of 4-H clubs to visit the Capital as guests of the Agriculture Department. The group has accumulated through club work about $48,000 worth of property and have made profits totaling $52,421 on their enterprises. Many of the boy3 and girls have worked their way through school. NO SUIT; KILLS SELF Boy, Chagrined at Delay, Leaps to Death. Bu United Press WARSAW, Poland. June 15.—A slow tailor caused the suicide of 16-year-old Adam Tytan of this city. Tytan wanted his new dress suit for a special party. The tailor failed to keep his promise to have It ready. Tytan had boasted to his boy companions that he would be the most elegantly dressed man at the party. Chagrined at his friends ridicule he returned home and leaped to his death from the third story window of his father’s apartment. PROBE PRISON CHARGES State Board Secretary Confers With Members About Stephenson. Secretary John A. Brown of the State charities board was expected to confer with former Judge W. H. Eichorn at Bluffton, and other board members today regarding the evidence gathered in the recent investigation of D. C. Stephenson’s charges of cruelty at Indiana State Prison, Michigan City.

headed the Michigan committee Wallace O. Lee, representing the Columbia Club, gave Mrs. Lindbergh a bouquet of Indiana American Beauty roses. Dick Miller, Chamber of Commerce president, welcomed Mrs. Lindbergh to Indianapolis. “I am very happy to see you. I always did love Hoosiers. There arfe many Indiana folks at Detroit, where I teach,” said Mrs. Lindbergh. “I wish others could share these flowers,” she said.

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GOVERNOR OPENS PRISON GATE TO LET STEVE'S FORMER WIFE CONFER WITH EX-KLAN DRAGON

Story of Desertion Told in Court by Woman, Asking $12,082 for Child. PROBE RUG ‘TRANSFER’ Detective Chief Worley for First Time Admits He Has Property. Mrs. Nettie Stephenson Brehm, former wife of D. C. Stephenson, who seeks $12,082 from the life prisoner’s assets to support their 7-year-old daughter, had her day in Superior Court One today, with these outstanding features: Floyd J. Mattice, Mrs. Brehm’s attorney, informed Judge James M. Leathers that he and Detective Chief Claude M. Worley had agreed to have an appraiser value four Oriental rugs, from the Stephenson Irvington mansion. Worley never until today has admitted having anything from Stephenson’s house. He now says the rugs are worth only about $l5O, which ho said he paid Stephenson. Adjustment Promised If the appraiser says the rugs are worth more than $l5O, an adjustment will be made, Mattice said. Mrs. Brehm traced her married life with Stephenson in Oklahoma, disclosing that the man who later made close to a million dollars out of the Ku-Klux Klan in Indiana left her and their 2-month-old child without support. Once, while telling how Stephenson deserted her, Mrs. Brehm wept. Florence Catherine, the daughter, sitting near her mother, also sobbed softly. Two depositions supporting the contention of Mrs. Brehm that Stephenson had a large equity in an automobile bought for Governor Ed Jackson were made public. Jackson’s Attorney on Job William L. Taylor, attorney for Jatkson, was present, warily watching the proceedings. The Governor, although subpoenaed, was not there. Jackson is one of the garnishee defendants. Worley. Attorney Ira Holmes and Mrs. Martha Dickinson of Seymour, Ind., former confidante of Stephenson in Klan work, are others. The depositions contradicting Jackson’s denial are those of Chester A. Beaumont, former superintendent of the Lexington Automobile Company, and Clinton E. Eads, former assistant superintenden of the Lexington, both of Connersville. They told how Stephenson opened negotiations for the car, how Jackson’s old Oldsmobile was appraised at the Governor’s mansion, how ptephenson argued over the cash payment, how the car was delivered to Jackson at the Statehouse, and how Fred O. Butler, then Stephenson’s secretary, handled the cash for Stephenson. • (Text of deposition, on Pax* S) LINDY HAS REUNION Flier and ‘Spirit of St. Louis’ Together Again. Bu United Press NEW YORK, June 16.—The famous "We,” Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and the Ryan monoplane. “Spirit of St. Louis,” were reunited today while New York and Washington slept. Leaving Curtiss field, New York, at 2:45 a. m. (eastern daylight time), Lindbergh flew to Washington in a Curtiss Army pursuit plane, landed at the Anacostia naval air field at 4:37; left in the “Spirit of St. Louis” at 5:08 and returned to Mitchel field, where he landed at 7:45 a. m. Lindbergh started to the field for the round trip in his formal evening clothes, in which he attended a benefit boxing match and two theatrical performances last night, the last of which began after 1 a. m. He slipped on flying togs at the field. He reached Mitchel field on his return trip in plenty of time to motor back to New York, wash and eat,

The flier’s mother leaned over the car rail and talked with Mrs. Martin Hugg, who asked about Benjamin Comfort of the Cass Technical High School, where she teaches. Comfort is a friend of Martin M. Hugg, Indianapolis school board attorney. As the Pennsylvania special pulled away, the crowd waved handkerchiefs and hats, then rushed to pick up Premier roses scattered on the track by the flier’s mother. The train was expected to reach St. .Louis about 1:30 p. m, *

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Convict Sobs ‘My Baby’ as He Clasps Daughter in His Arms. FIRST VISIT IN DECADE Mrs. Brehm Given Letter ■ Jackson Which Admits ’ Her to Penitentiary. Armed with a letter from Governor Ed Jackson, the former wife of D. C. Stephenson, Mrs. Nettie Stephenson Brehm of Oklahoma, visited the former Klan leader and political czar at Indiana State prison at Michigan City Tuesday. There she had the supreme satisfaction of having him acknowledge Florence Catherine, 11, as hie daughter. Deputy Warden H. H. Claudy today confirmed the fact of the visit and the giving of a letter to Mrs. Brehm by the Governor, on which she was admitted to see Stephenson. The Governor started for the northern part of the State the day before Mrs. Brehm saw Stephenson. The interview between Mrs. Brehm and her former husband was conducted in one of the small offices with Claudy standing in the background, but not near enough to listen to the conversation. Meeting Is Dramatic Mrs. Brehm is in the city to prosecute her claim against Stephenson for support of the little girl. The meeting, as described by her, was a dramatic one. Stephenson threw his arms around the 11-year-old girl, drew her to him and sobbed, “My baby! My baby!” and then began an optimistic promise of what he would do for her when, as he put it, he was released. “He promise \ me a German police dog,” said Catherine. But as he talked with his arms around the girl, he gave utterance to the wish that he could take the little girl and board some ship and “sail for twenty-five years.” . He promised, when he obtained control of any of the money which he asserts is being withheld from him by his former friends, to do all that he could to make reparation for the years when he forgot the child and was building himself into the political dictatorship of Indiana. Cast Doubt on Child The interview between Mrs. Brehm and Stephenson and the unusual fact that she entered the prison with a letter from Governor Jackson is the latest development of the Stephenson scandals. When he filed his petition with the Governor for parole, Stephenson cast some doubt upon the claims of the little girl and of Mrs. Brehm, declaring that her suit was the result of a conspiracy on the part of Hiram W. Evans, Klan imperial wizard, to ruin him. That petition stated that SIOO,OOO was raised at a meeting at the Lincoln Hotel to spread hatred against him and that “part of the money was used in fine-combing the entire southwest to find a woman to bring a suit as petitioner's former wife.” More Than Money “When Steve threw his arms around Catherine and called her ‘my baby,’ it meant more to me than any money,” said Mrs. Brehm. “I have no hatred against him. I would do anything in my power to secure his release. I do not believe that he is guilty of murder. “His visions might have led him to do other things, but not that. I am fighting for my little daughter.” Mrs. Brehm says that she was married to Stephenson at Tishimingo, Okla., when both were 22. At that time he worked as a linotype operator. “But I saw him as a man with a great future,” she said. “He hod the flash of a genius. I believed in him.” Then after a couple of years the baby was born and when Catherine was two months old, Stephenson went hunting for a better job. lie wrote for a time, most discouraging letters. Then no more letters came. She obtained a divorce after a time and remarried. Before Murder Arrest She asserts that her suit to make him support the little girl came before, not after his arrest, for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer. One day. some time after Stephenson had broken with Hiram Evans and was ousted from the Klan, a man came to her and gave her the information that her former husband was powerful and rich in Indianapolis. He represented himself as an investigator of Government insurance at Washington. Mrs. Brehm says that she is sure he lives in Washington. She is not so sure now about the Government taking an interest in any Insurance Stephenson had. _ _____