Later Years
On 7 January 1941, the Valparaiso Vidette-Messenger reported that Governor Townsend, a Democrat, was considering granting an early parole to Stephenson. No parole was approved that year. Stephenson was paroled on 23 March 1950 by a Democratic administration, but violated parole by disappearing on or before 25 September 1950. On 15 December 1950, he was captured in Minneapolis and returned to custody. He was sentenced in 1951 to serve 10 years in prison. In 1953, he pleaded for release, denying that he had ever been a leader of the Klan. On 22 December 1956, the state paroled him, on condition that he leave Indiana and never return.
In 1961, at the age of 70, Stephenson was arrested in Tennessee on charges of attempting to sexually assault a sixteen-year-old girl. He was released after paying a $300 fine as the charges were dropped on grounds of insufficient evidence. He died in Jonesborough, Tennessee a few years later. He was buried at the USVA Mountain Home National Cemetery in Johnson City, Tennessee.
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