The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-06
FORMER MRS. STEPHENSON SUES JACKSON
Mrs. Brehm Seeks to Re-
cover Property in Sup
port Case.
AUTO FIGURES IN ACTION
GarniShee Filed in Superior
Court-Set May 18.

Governor Ed Jackson and Mrs.
Martha Dickinson Of Seymour. ID.
C. Stephenson's confidential agent"
today were ordered to appear before
Judge James Leathers in Superior
Court One in garnishee proceedings
brought by Mrs. Nettie Stephenson
Brehm Of Oklahoma City, former
wife of the Klan dragon. now serv-
ing life term in Michigan City for
murder
Affidavits. filed by Floyd Mattice.
attorney for Mrs. Brehm, demanded
the Governor to appear in court on
May 18, and Mrs. Dickinson on May
20. Summons asked by the affidavits
were issued by Judge Leathers and
turned over to the sheriffs of Marion
and Jackson Counties for service.
Seeking Property
The garnishee proceedings are an
effort by Mrs. Brehm = to recover
certain property, said to belong to
Stephenson, and which she charges
is being held by the Governor and
Mrs. Dickinson.
Governor Jackson has been called
for questioning regarding auto
mobiles and money" was Mattice's
only comment.
1t is expected that Mattice will
question the Governor about a new
Lexington automobile which was
delivered to him some time ago. 1t
is expected, too. that he will ask him
the source of the money that was
used In payment Of the difference be-
tween cost and trade-in allowance
on automobiles that were included
in the deal. 1t was said that $1,000
in cash was included in the trans
action.
Fred Butler, former secretary to
Stephenson, testified in court sever
al weeks ago that Stephenson had
given his Studebaker as a part pay
ment on the Jackson Lexington. The
Governors Oldsmobile also was said
to have figured in the deal.
Nothing to Say"
Governor Jackson told of the
garnishee proceedings, declared he
had heard nothing about the sub
poena, knew nothing about it and
had nothing to say" Then he left
with a delegation for Lincoln City
to attend a ceremony at the Nancy
Hanks Lincoln Memorial.
Mrs. Dickinson came into the lime
light during the political quiz of
the Marion County grand jury last
fall. She was said to have been the
only person to whom the former
Klan chief had given power of at
torney, and is known to have been
permitted to see him at Michigan
City Prison. She also was said to
have been with Stephenson frequent
ly before his trip to prison, and to
have made several eastern trips as
his agent, for conferences with Gut
zon Gorglum, Stone Mountain sculp-
tor, at Stanford, Conn.
For Daughters Support
Mrs. Brehm, who is demanding
$40, 600 judgment against her former
husband for support of their daugh-
ter, does not estimate in the garnish-
ment affidavits the value of property
she believes is in possession of the
two defendants.
Stephenson was said to have
loaned Borglum money at various
tiy1aS ond ,nnuy hos n i,,IorY,oaof rf
about $32 1000 against the sculptor.
She also conferred with DR.. Rumely,
former publisher of the New York
Mail, with whom Stephenson was
said to have had many conferences.
Mrs. Dickinson appeared before
the Marion County grand jury dur
ing it's investigation of political cor
ruption last fall.
To See "Steve"
Paul T. Newman and Lloyd Hill,
local lawyers, will go to Michigan
City next week to see Stephenson
for the purpose of obtaining his sig
nature to papers which would per-
NIT them to appear for him in the
Brehm case, in which he is not now
represented.
They will learn from Stephen
son, they say. whether or not Jack
son and Mrs. Dickinson are hold
ing his property, that they may
prepare his defense.
Governor Jackson is said to no
longer own a Lexington.