Stephenson took hold of my two hands and held them. I tried to fight but was weak and unsteady.
“Stephenson took hold of the bottom of my dress and pulled it up over my head. In her dying declaration, Oberholtzer vividly and painfully recounts the rape: Oberholtzer admitted that she was coerced into having a couple of drinks. On the trip, the three men pushed Oberholtzer into a sleeping compartment, where Stephenson raped and brutalized her, viciously biting her as he held her down. “I love you more than any woman I have ever known,' Stephenson told her.
Stephenson had been drinking heavily - as he often did - even before they got on the train. She might have gone willingly, or he might have forced her: He wasn't an easy man to say no to.
