Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1950 — Page 10

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Former Klan Dragon Has No -. ___ Comment on Governor's Action

Life termer D. C. Stephenson heard by prison radio at one Michigan City yesterday that his sentence had ‘been com-i Th muted by Gov. Schricker. > 2 He had no comment. : The former Indiana ku-klux- klar grand dragon was

-sentenced to life imprisonment 25 years ago on his conviction] of second degree murder charges.| = He has tried more than 50 times! istration Gov. Schricker bas had! to gain his freedom. a policy against pardons. The governor yesterdiy reduced Instead he commuted Stephenson's prison term from Sentence to one of time already | Jacqueline Siskind. life imprisonment to “time served served to life. | The young woman, wearing to life.” "Tm very _muc h inclined tol ; : Hb

‘ : blue jeans and a black woolen “My feeling is that Stephenson | think the trustees are favorably| oo N cosshod a policeman in

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This 25-year-old - woman ho {last night told police she was an. |ampesia victim, was identified by

lan “Indianapolis physician, Genthe life... Hospital authorities said. as

paid he pesalty Fonts ne Je jueiined Sowa him.” the goV-)o "bus station and asked for served and is entitled to some sald. | : ; a consideration,” Gov. Schricker! At Michigan City, Warden heip:- She said she didnt know

her name. Her pursé contained no {money nor identification papers

Dies Suddenly Here;

said. Dowd said no special meeting of “Stephenson served 25 years, a the trustees would be called be-| pretty long span out of a man's|fore Mar. 17 to consider Stephen

life, and he's been a pretty good SOR 'S Pasole . 4” Stop) . prisoner.” 0V chricker - said Stephen- : + i Not Told Officially |songwill live with his daughter fn Police Investigat ng n 4. . . Ra | Tulsa, Okla., if he is freed. Police today were investigating ae a bots “Hones ber “We have reason to believe thal, the sudden death of Lowell Kist= he has been assured a job with ler, 40, of 408 N. Alabama St

reduced 10 ‘ine served to fife, * a very good company in Tulsa,’|in the apartment of a friend fast .Deputy Warden . August Funk . . : ' 3 id. “We ca Tt tell. him about the governor said. night ; 5a tl + e ¥ ¢ d officially The former klan leader's com- Harvey Wheats 69, told. police It un iy are ofme d mutation followed a hearing be- he and Mr. Kistler were in Mr Ho 10 Bel re er pe - Nd fore the state clemency commis-|Wheat's apartment in 403". at may un onday or sion Feb. 10, at which, Stephen-'Massachusetts Ave. when Mr.

maybe even for a week.” son's friends testified on behalf Kistler said: on a pos of his bid for freedom. | “Well, here goes nothing.” h 2 le board for hi 1 His plea was opposed by Mar-| ye then took a drink of liquor oN ont 3 oy 8 release {shall Oberholtzer, brother of the j.. pack on the bed and closed * with er Meial : fication, | ICH. his eyes, Mr. Wheat said. - After a tor niu Stephenson's “bodygards,” Earl trying to arouse him, Mr. Wheat we can 't ask Stephenson for his; Klinck and Earl Gentry, were ok police. reaction, Mr. Funk sald. “We harged with conspiracy in the A deputy coroner pronounced Know about it and he knows but death, but the same jury that con ye Kistler dead and sent his we can’t discuss it. In fact, I was 00.4 Stephenson acquitted them. body. te City Morgue fa General TO A ie ne pris. The conviction came at the Hospital. An autopsy was or-

oners who heard it on the radio.” Stevenson was convicted Nov. jelimay Of Siivhersoe s four-year {dered to determine cause of death.

14, 1925 of second degree murder in the death of Miss Madge Ober-' . . . holtzer. A jury found him gutity’ Train Kills Motorist of killing her by refusing her! LAWRENCEVILLE, Mar. 4: medical ‘attention after she swal~ (UP)-—An automobile-train collig sion today killed Paul O. Schrader,” Carbon, Ind. Police said Mr.

lowed poison. Charges Attack Miss Oberholtzer made a déeath- Schcrader’'s car was -hit by the bed. statement that she took the Baltimore and Ohio's National poison after Stephenson abducted Limited as he started to drive CIVIC "GROU P TO ME ET her and attacked her on a train across the tracks on_ Illinois Riverside Civic Association trip to Hammond, Ind., with two! Route 1. They estimated his age. || hold its regular March meet- a of his - bodyguards in March, at about 50. ing at 7:30 p. m. Thursday at 1925. The defense maintained the foie the Unity Methodist Church. Ray

HE'S GONNA QUIT WASHINGTON, Mar 4 (UP) Alexander Willis, who was born in-Stavery -111-vears ago, couldn't tell well-wishers the secret of his longevity today. ‘But 1 know one thing.” he said, “I ain't gonna set here another century.”

death was a clear case of suicide. V ETERAN KILLED ; Hollembeek. president, The commutation will permit LOGANSPORT, Ind., Mar. 4— preside. Stephenson to apply to the board (UP)—A bullet through the

of trustees of the Indiana State heart today killed Darrell Neth- AUXILIARY TO MEET Prison for parole and freedom. ercutt, 24, World ‘War II veteran,

He had asked the governor for| Coroner. Milton Stewart was n- in the Temple dining hall. e pardon, but during’ his’ adit: | 1-[ VestIgating.

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_THE INDIAN APOLIS TIMES _ How Reds Crush Out Confessions—

| Tortured Man Bares T

. Forced fo Stand With Fingers on Wall;

~ Finally Invents Details Tormentors Want By EDWARD V. ROBERTS, United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Mar. 1 - given the free world its first

political trials, . -

The State Department said today the story -- a man’'s-will to resist

_ the utter breakdown of the civilized world has been told

how. the Soviets force. men to |

swear publicly to SEfnes they

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. The department released a sworn statement by Michael Shipkov, former employee of the U. 8. legation in Bulgaria, describing how h e “confessed” espionage and treason after 32 hours of questioning and torture -by the Bulgarian state security militia last August. “After “confessing,” he agreed to return to thé legation and serve as an informer for the police® Instead, “he ‘immediately wrote the details of ‘his experience in an affidavit which

he gave American officials. Then

he remained hidden in the lega-

tion for six mnths. - He finally left Feb. 11 recaptured and promptly dicted for treason. A = ~

Penalty ‘Is - Death

INASMUCH such trials frequently are -carried- out .in secret. there is no way of khowing whether he has vet tried, The penalty. for “treason” in Bulgdria'is death. The .State Department suggested that Mr. Shipkov's affidavit shed light on how ‘‘con-

was in-

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fessions” were obtained from Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, imprisoned for _“treason” in Hungary; Robert A. Vogeler, American businessman im- | prisoned for “espionage” in Hungary and .15 Protestant pastors “convicted” of spying |

for the United States last year in Bulgaria.

Mr. ‘Shipkov's story was told |

in an 8000-word affidavit, written in long-hand. He told how his “confession” was extracted

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‘719 E. 16th St, was | suffering from a broken jaw and possible internal injuries.

~ A man who may now be dead has | detalled picture of Communist | t_police methods. used 10 obtain “confessions” in Soviet-type |

a tragic tale of | ~ | the first'time |

from him; and how he was made | i pression that I had, in- my.

“to implicate others. The confession, he said; was of me against my will,

under duress.” Mr.'Shipkov said he was questioned -by seven militiamen, working in- teams. The inter-

Sunday night. ruptions, he said, came during his periodic collapses from exhaustion. During most of the questioning. Mr. Shipkov was forced to stand facing a wall, bent forward, with one finger of each

“dragged out | against | Any. knowledge of actual truth, |

“or ask to rest-—the wall again f= and again, and the slaps and |

hand pressing against the wall. |

When his answers were unsatisfactory, he was slapped or

+ struck on the back of the neck.

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{ terrogation

.rogation began on a Saturday | afternoon and continued until The only inter- |

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him sit down, gave him a cig~ aret, “even lit it for me.” But he was wrong. The inonly beginning. The inquisitors. wanted details.

“And this went on, hour after night, ! throughout the day, without | respite or end.” i “How can I best explain?” |

hour, throughout the

he wrote. “The oniV straw for

whieh I could reach is the im- |

emptied vacant thoughts, of | some sentence that had pleased

them, or that had conformed | - with the pattern I had so often '[* i seen in the (Communist) news-

papers.

“And If*I were to stop and |

_plead fatigue, or poor memory,

the” blows. in the nape. And I remembered I would come up gasping and talk and talk and talk and feel utterly broken.” =

- .Breaks, Bit by Bit BIT BY BIT, he said, he made the “confession” they { wanted; naming people they seemed to want named; in= venting details they wanted;

ves, he had spied for the -British and for the Americans, and

talk, with the utter hopelessness |

and the longing to go through the thing and be sent down into silence and peace—it is a very effective manner of down all resistance,” kov wrote “And after a time of

Mr. Ship-

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breaking |

broke down. [I told them I was |

willing and eager to tell them

all they wanted. The main ap- |

peal is to end the pain, needless,

to stop | futile resistance, and |

to come nearer to the moment | i

when would let me in peace.” Se Mr. Shipkov

worst was over then.

they

thought the

They let |

“THIS POSTURE does not | on the Americans for the Brit: appear unduly painful, nor did | ish; yes, he had distortéd events it particularly impress me in | in Bulgaria “to provoke hatred [-the beginning. ‘And Vet, com- | and cause foreign Interven--| bined with the mental strain, tion”; and so on, for hours and | with the eontinuous pressure to | hours !

Out of his agonies, “Mr. Ship]

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