The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-16
Girls Dying Statement Dis
closing All Details of Al
legged Stephenson Affair
Made PubIiC-Says She
Trusted Him as Friend.
TELLS OF MEETING AT
GOVERNORS BANQUET
Declares She Took Three
Drinks at Ex-Dragon'S
Home After Being Induced
to Go There : Claude
WorIey Mentioned.

W0rley mentioned.
The dying declaration of
Madge Oh hotter, whose
death is laid at the door of d.
G. Stephenson, Earl Klinck and
Earl Gentry, was made public
today when Prosecutor Viii
liam P. Remy turned it over to
the defense in the proceedings
in Circuit Court at Noblesville.
The statement was made to Asa
Smith, the Oberholtzer family at
torney, as the girl lay dying at her
home in April.
The statement:
1, Madge Oberholtzer. being in full
possession of my mental faculties
and conscious that 1 am about to
die make as my dying declaration
the following statement:
Met at Athletic Club
My name is Madge Oberholtzer. I
am a resident of Marion County,
State of Indiana, residing at No.
1902 University Ave, Indianapolis.
l first met David c. Stephenson at
the banquet given for the Governor
at the Athletic Club early in JAM
uary, 1925. At that time I was inn
pressed with Stephensons power and
influence.
At that time he seemed to take
a great liking to me and danced
several dances with me. During
the dances he said he liked me
very much.
Afteer the banquet he asked me
for a date several time, but 1 gave
him no definite answer. He later in
sisted that I take dinner with him
at the Washington Hotel, and I con-
sented and he came for me at my
home in his Cadillac car and on this
occasion we dined together.
During Legislature
This was while the Legislature
was in session. Then he drove me
back home and acted toward me in
a gentlemanly manner although he
said to me, I thought jokingly:
Are you afraid of me?"
He said too that l should not be
alOOf from him and said:
Il always get what 1 want"
After that he called me several
times on the phone and once again
/ had dinner with him at the Wash
ington Hotel with another party
and at that time he said to me:
81 would never hurt you, even
If you asked me to, and you know
that"
And ] believed him.
/ was first attracted by his ap-
parent influence and power with
State officials and his general po-
litical influence and because of his
respectful attitude and conduct to-
wards me.
/ believed that he was my friend.
At Party
Subsequent - this l was at
Stephenson's home at a party with
several prominent people when both
gentlemen and their ladies were
present. The two evenings I took
dinner with Stephenson at the Wash
ington Hotel he drove me home and
was very nice to me. Whenever
we met during these times he was
especially nice to me and once when
he overheard me talking about wish
ing to kill a bill in the Legislature
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office-that of business manager of
the Teachers and Young Peoples
Reading Circle of Indiana-he said
to me that l should have come to
him and that he would use his in
fluence to kill it and the bill was
killed
/ did not see him again until
Sunday, March Is, 1925, when up
on returning to my home about
10 o'clock in the evening / was
informed by my mother that there
had been parties calling for me
on the telephone and saying for
me to call Irvington 0492.
I called Irvington 0492 and
Stephenson answered and said to ne
to come down, II l could. to his
home that he wished to see me about
something very important to me-;
that he was leaving for Chicago and
had 10 see me before he left.
This was about 10 p. m. in the
evening, Sunday night.
His home was only two or three
blocks from mine. He said further
that he was busy and could not
leave, but that he would send some
one for me.
I recognized Stephenson's voice.
Soon a Mr.. Gentry, whom I had
never seen before, came for me and
said he was from Stephenson.
I walked with Gentry to Stephen
sons home.
When we arrived there we
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