The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-14
REPORTERS STORY
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l scription which already had become part of the official records in the case.
 The matter made public tonight by , Mir. Doran follows: Excerpts from 17-page transcript 1 of conversation between. Chandler Sprague and Arthur Burch. niglt or September 12, 1921, at county jail, be- ginning at o'clock, Malcolm McLarv ! en and stenographer also pl esent. "Question by Mir. Sprague: Ar thur, you and I understand each l other? Answer by Burch: We under stano each other. "Question: I know you told me the truth. you know you told me the truth?
 Answer. yes. No Hard Feelings "Ouestion: I don't think you per sonally are going to have any hard feeling against me.
 Answer: Not at all. Why. certain facts that you know are true, that you think are true
 "Question: That I know are true, so far as you are concerned. am the only person that does know it.
 Answer: Absolutely.
 "Question What motives were those you had for telling me? Answer: In the first place it gives a man certain amount of relief to express himself
 "Question: You and I. nobody else in the world know that you have told the truth.
 Answer: You and Lit is a ques- e. -nl l,,tt t,,sc
 Told Whole Truth
 "Ouestio You know, as man to man, you told me the truth.
 Answer: That Is all right.
 "Question; Is there any one else in the world that knows the true story of this but Chandler Spragu-, anybody. anyone else?
 "Answer: No sir. It has never beei told. That is Gods truth, absolutely.
 "Question You told me every thing?
 "Answer: Yes. sir.
 Sprague in his article, published this morning. stated that he had promised not to make Burch's alleged confession public until he was forced to do so, undeooath and that he re- gards a summons before the grand jury as releasing him from the prom ise.
 Burch and Mrs. Obenchain today denied allegations in Spragues article.
 sprague today read before the grand jury the article printed in the Examiner under his name. which re- cited details of purported confess sion by Burch. who to say branded the article as untrue. 1t contained statements Sprague declared Burch made. tt~ the effect that Mrs. Oben- chaii. sent for him by mail and wire and that upon arrival here he pur- chased shot gun, sawed off DOT tion and threw it away; that later Mrs. Obenchain suggested they had better hide it more effectively The article then related the staying of Kennedy while withMrs. Obenchatn and quoted Burch as saying he had gone to Beverly Glen and wainted for them.
 Paul schank. attorney for Burch, when informed tonight of the report by Deputy District Attorney Doran, of an alleged record of conversation between Sprague and Burch last night purporting to deal with the al- legged confession Sprague claimed to have obtained from Burch said: 'It merely is an evidence of the desperate straits to which they have to go to attempt to trap a man, to bolster up an article which in the language of MT. Burch is a 'concoc-' tion.' The excerpts of tho reported conversation between Burch and l Spraguc as given out do not contain anything in tne-form of an admission by MT. .Burch.
 According to Sprague's article as | read before the grand jury, Burch Is alleged fo have told Sprague that he shot Kennedy because 1t was the only way tc.reinove an evil influence over Mrs 5bcnchain.
 According to Sprague's article. Horch sought to aid Mrs, Obenchain to