KLAN FLAYS FORMER DRAGON(Continued Kroni rage 1)and that we offer our moral and financial assistance if i the needed.*' Meanwhile, the petition, asking bail for Stephenson, Earl Kllnck and Earl Gentry, indicted withher, faced certain delay. The hear*ing will not be held before Tuesday as result of the continuance of the Louis Owens case In Criminal CourtMonday.In event the case of Owens, whoIs charged with murder, is not completed Monday, the Stephenson hearing probably will be postponed !until Wednesday by Judge James A. Collins.Week-End in .JailStephenson and his aids are spending their first week-end in jail. Indictments charging them with murder were returned by the Marion County grand jury. During a three-hour delay on the part of the j sheriff a office In making any effort to serve the capiases, the three defendants disappeared. They returned Monday, when they were arrested in the office of Kpli Inman.their attorney. fThey have been in jail ever/mce. It is believed that if the tm/.on to admit the men to bail fails, 'ne case will be taken to the Ind ana Supreme Court by Inman.Fund Kept SecfetExact amount of the fund being raised to assist in thlt;j prosecution of the case will not be made public by Thomas C. Howe, former president of Butler University, treasurer of the fund. However, it is understood that the appeal for contriutions is meeting with a generous response.The city council will not make anappropriation for the fund. This was definitely settled Friday when James If. Ogden, corporation counsel. gave an opinion that such ac-