Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-11-14 | Page 1 | Prosecutor in Case Demands Death Penalty

PROSECUTOR IN INCASE IN CASE DEMANDS DEMAND DEATH PENALTY t Men Alleged to Have Caused Girl to T Take ke Poison Calm Under Fire CHARGES DEATH DUE TO BRUTAL ATTACK I i Says Girl Was Murdered I Just as Surely as If She Had Been Knifed NOBLESVILLE md Ind Nov 14 The CAP AP P The D Dr D. D C. C St Stephenson ni murder murder mur- mur muru r u der r case went to the tho jury at at 11 46 V I o'clock clock today J j NOBLESVILLE Ind Iod Nov 14 1 United Press The Press The men who i i criminally assaulted Madge ladge Ober Ober- v holtzer ea causing using h her r to take tace poison polso j I murdered her Just as surely as If l- l they had plunged a dagger Into h her r heart Ralph Kane assistant prosecutor prosecutor prosecutor pros pros- declared today in his clos cbs y J ing argument to the Jury for the P- P conviction of ot three former Cormer Ku Iu Klux j Klan leaders leader Kane did not admit that Miss died as the result of ot the poison she took insisting that her death was caused by the brutal attack upon her but he attempted to safeguard the states state's case b by his hil assertion that the defendants would be Just as guilty guilt if the poison had been the cause of death The three defendants defendants-D defendants defendants-D. D. D C. C Stephenson Stephenson Stephenson Ste Ste- Earl Klenck and E Earl Gentry listened Gentry listened attentively as asKane asKane asKane Kane thundered his argument to the Jury They showed no sign pf Df c concern when he repeated the d demand de- de mand for the thEl death penalty that I II had been made In the states state's first I argument