Arizona republican., 1921-08-08
Suspect In Los Angeles Murder
 Trailed Victim,
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 Burch had a round trip ticket from Chicago to Los Angeles, and that he did not buy a ticket yesterday, as reported. but had his return ticket | validated instead.
 Mrs. Obenchain also had round trip ticket they said. which had not been | validated, for return when she was taken into custody as a material witness.
 The facts leading to the arrest of Burch. who was said to be the son of minister in an Illinois town, were given out in substance as follows: Spent All Time in Room On July "A, Burch went to a small 1 hotel on Broadway here, and secured front room. He first telephoned
 to inquire if such a room could be had. That shown him was south of
 the office occupied by Kennedy's firm. across Broadway. and gave a
 partial view of the office. He asked
 for the adjoining room which would have been directly opposite Kenne- dy's office, and when told it was occupied, offered a daily bonus if he
 might have it. He was refused and
 took the room first shown. He spent
 all his time in the room thereafter.
 Hotel employees said he constantly
 
 Burch also told the landlord of the hotel that he would be visited from time to time. in the afternoons, by a feminine cousin and when the landlord demurred he said the calls related only to business matters and that he would leave the door of his
 room open when he had visitors.
 The cousin called several times in the next few days. The landlord was fSh nh he AF Nf-- chain tonight and said she was not the visitor.
 Friday evening-the night of the
 killing-Burch left the hotel early in
 the evening after receiving a tele- phone call from woman. He car
 ried long parcel. wrapped in
 newspapers, which officers say was
 the shotgun used. He returned at
 midnight. The medical and other
 evidence indicates that Kennedy was
 shot not later than 12 o'clock
 Just after he. left the hotel, he
 was seen by the night clerk on a
 nearby street, walking toward a . place where the automobile he had rented was parked The automobile
 was traced to a rental concern yes terday.
 , Early yesterday he checked out of . the hotel without saying anything about his plans.
 Evidence Strong When the officers had developed , facts sufficient in their belief to jus , tify the detention of Burch they learned that he had gone directly | from the hotel to the Salt Lake station here and left at 10:40. Be-
 fore the case had narrowed down, s the train had passed Barstow. Cal g and Las Vegas, New, was notified to 3 make the arrest. as the next city of : importance along the route he had
 taken.
 ! The man was identified by the very
 long suitcase he carried. While of : ficers were engaged in interrogatine Mrs. Obenchain, a plain white enve- lope, mailed at the general postoffice ! here, was delivered at the hotel ad- dressed to her. It contained sS5 in , currency, nothing else. Mrs. Oben- chain told the officers that this was a repayment by Burch of loan she | had made him and said that he was U an old school friend of hers and ot
 her former husband and that she and . he had frequently assisted each other 2 financially.
 !, Mrs. Obenchain had told the of e ficers that after the shot that killed :. Kennedy was fired, she saw two Q roughly dressed men run from am ', bush and then heard their automo- Q bile leave. investigators yesterday : said they were positive that only one Q man was implicated.
 n Another angle that developed yes. a terday was that, although Mrs e Obenchain's mother and sister lived
 at Pasadena, adjoining Los Angeles e they had not known of her presenc, IF here. They first heard of it toda,
 when reporters called at their hom, q for information.
 r Kennedy's father said tonight tha e the son had not had the keys tt l. the Beverly Glen cottage, where h. e was shot, for more than two year,
 and did not have them last night d He said he was at loss to knov 1t why he went there, unless it was [, e, permit Mrs. Obenchain to look fo " the lucky penny" that she told o st in her first statement and that sh d said she had hidden near the cot 1t tage year before.
 It MT. Kennedy issued a statemen It last night in which he insisted tha l. Mrs. Obenchain had been urgini le young Kennedy to marry her an b, that the situation had caused his sol a to be greatly worried.
 Very little was known of Burc