Albuquerque morning journal., 1921-08-09
ROADSTER USED
NIGHT KENNEDY
WAS MURDERED
IS DISCOVERED
Admissions Made By Arthur
c, Burch, Under Arrest in
Los Angeles Lead to Car
Being Located.
MAN AND WOMAN ARE
CONFINED IN JAIL
Each Make Statements That
Fail to Correspond With
Those of the Other Au-
thoritieS Assert,
(By The Associated Press. /,

Los Angeles, Calf, Aug. S.-Ad.
missions made by Arthur c. Burch
returned here today in custody II
connection with the murder last
Friday of j. Bolton Kennedy, LED
today to the discovery Of rented
roadster equipped with tires of d
peculiar tread, which tires made ar
impression that fitted the marks
left in a lane last Friday night by
a car supposed to have been driven
by tho murderer.
Officers uncovered evidence
tending to indicate Burch rented a
car that night.
Burch and Madelynne Oben-
chain, the young woman held as a
material witness, were returned to
their cells in the county Jail today
after they had separately faced in
reviewers from the district attor-
ney's office and after each had,
according to the interviewers, made
statements that failed to correspond
with those of the other.
Burch Arrested In Nevada.
Kennedy was shot on the steps
VI AAAo 1ANIlC COlldS6 III
Beverly Glen while Mrs. Obenchain,
a young divorced woman, awaited
him at the top of the flight of
steps leading to his door. Burch
was taken from a train at Las
Vegas, Nevada, and returned here
in custody after it had been shown
that he and Mrs Obenchain We're
childhood friends, college mates
and had been in correspondence
recently and that Burch had sat in
hotel room across Broadway from
Kennedy's office for ten days be-
fore the staying, had been absent
from his room when it occurred, and
had left for his home in Evanston,
Ill, the following morning.
Today aided by guarded state
ments from Burch, deputies from
the sheriff's office found that a
man giving the name Of Zones"
and the address of an uncle and
aunt of Burch, his only relatives
here, had rented an automobile
Z here from an agency on the night
OF the killing. Burch, officers
said, declined to say where he was
driven.
The automobile agency records
did not disclose any rental to any
one giving the name of Burch.
There was rental to a man giving
his name as ~. w. Jones'" and
giving an address that the officers
said was that of an uncle and aunt
of Burch, his only relatives here.
Slayer Stood In Ambush.
A Reconstruction of the killing
by officers developed that the man
who killed Kennedy stood in am
bush after placing his car In an
unused road leading to a gravel pit
not far from the Kennedy cottage.
Marks of the tires were found in
this road and elsewhere. Today
officers drove the roadster that
had heen taken by Zones" to the
scene of the shooting and compared
the tires with the imprints there.
The tire design was unusual, the
officers said.
Mrs Obenchain denied, accord
ing to the officers, that she had
ever visited Burch's rooms across
the street from Kennedy's office |
A photograph of the woman was
shown the hotel proprietor shortly |
after her detention and he said |
she was not the visitor. Today,
after seeing her in person at the |
jail, he changed his statement and |
identified her positively as the |
woman who had frequently visited |
Burch's rooms and whose calls |
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