Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-12-09
WITNESS SAYS SHE
SAW BURCH DRIVE.
PAST MURDER SCENE.
WOMAN TESTlFYING AT TRIAL
OF ALLEGED SLAYER CLAIMS
DEFENDANT WAS IN NEIGH
BoRHooD WHEN KENNEDY
MET DEATH.

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. Am eye
witness TO the murder OF }. Bolton
Kennedy, who saw Arthur c. Burch
on trial for the Staying, ut the scene
before and after the shooting, was
produced on the stand in Superior
Judge Reeves court Thursday
Mrs. Elizabeth Bezenty, rancher's
wife, whose home is next to kennody's
bungalow at Beverly Glen, testified
she saw Kennedy drive up to his cabin
about O'Clock on the evening of Aug.
5, Just as she was going to sleep,
she said, she heard shot.
Il woke up and said TO my husband,
What the devils that?
Il thought something had happened
to my boys, who sleep in a cabin
across the road from our place, and |
got up.
AS | stepped into the road heard
Il second shot and saw the gun blaze
in the brush beside the stairs leading
up to Mr. Kennedy's cabin. heard
a sound like someone sliding down
through the brush and heard mans
voice say, I've got him
Il thought at first it was Mr.. Ken
nedy. Then | heard someone get out
Of the automobile and heard wom-
ans voice saying. Are you hurt,
Denny
II thought IL was Denny she said.
Are you hurt? Answer me- the
woman's voice said
Bolton, answer me. Oh, what am
] to dor
l., I
out afterward it was driven by Mr.
Doering-and the woman rushed OUT
into the road and cried:
Stop, won't you please stop? He
slowed down and we went over there
Il heard the woman-it was Mrs.
0benchain-telling Mr. Deering some
thing.
Mr. Deering went over to the
stairs and when he came back he said
Kennedy was shot He's deader than |
door nail, Mr.. Deering said"
Mrs. Bezenty told OF how Mrs I
Obenchain and Deering left in Deer
ings automobile for the Sawtele po-
lice station
Burch maintained a smiling face
until Mrs. Bezenty said she had seen f.
Burch twice the night of the murder, /
Telling how she saw him the mrs.
time, she said
We'll, ! was standing in front OF
my house little after o'clock and
saw him go past in roadster auto
mobile. He had on those same glasses
and he didn't wear a hat,
He drove up past our house and
fufnnu 9rpnud and nnrnn hack
After. Mr.. Kennedy was shot Mr. |
Dcering and Mrs. Obcnchain had left
for Sawtelle and we were standing .
there waiting for the officers to come
when Burch drove past in the same
roadster machine.
He went up the road little way
and then back past us again"
Laying a foundation for the intro
duction of the shotgun, Attorney
Moolwine yesterday began roconstguc-
ton of the actual Staying by calling
witnesses from Beverly Glen, the
scene of the crime
The two shells found near Ken
nedy's cabin in the glen were pro-
duced during the testimony of Thomas
BeSenty, ) years old, who found them
While playing detective" the morning
aftor the Staying.
Thorns from bush where Burch is
said to have hidden when he fired the
shot which killed Kennedy were to be
shown the Jurors.
A thorn extracted from Burch's
knee after his arrest was similar to
the thorns on the bushes, Woolwine
expected to show.
While the prosecution was carrying
It's story, by witnesses, into the glen
IL became known that the defense has
uncovered new evidence to support
the plea that Burch is insane.
This evidence concerns Burch's I'm.
usual behavior at the funeral of his
grandmother several years ago.