The New York herald., 1921-08-14
BURCH IS IDENTIFIED
Motorist Says He Saw Ac-
cused in Car on Night
Broker Was Shot.
EX-HUSBAND WILL HELP
Mrs. Obenchain, Also Indicted,
Sends Appeal Which Brings
Speedy Response.

Los ANGELES, Aug ia shotgun
found by bathers at Santa Monica
Beach was turned over to the police
late to-day In the belief that it might
have been the one used in the Staying
of j. Belton Kennedy. for whose
murder Arthur c. Burch and Mrs.
Madalynne Obenchain have been in
dicted.
To-day's discovery was the second
within as many days, the stock of
another shotgun having been given to
the authorities yesterday by camper,
who said he had found it in the shall
low waters Of the beach. The barrel
has not been found.
The offering of rewards by private in
terests for the recovery of the shotgun
led the authorities to express scepticisrn
In regard to to-day's find. The complete
gun discovered by the bathers was a
twelve gauge. Physicians have said 1t
was twelve gauge shotgun which was
used in Kennedy's Staying. A navy div
ing crew was ordered to-day to aid in
search for the gun.
Both Burch and Mrs Obenchan, who
were classmates at the time the latter's
former husband, Ralph, was a student
at Northwestern University, Evanston,
continue to maintain silence as to their
possible knowledge of the Staying.
Cbenchain IS en- route here from Chicago
in response to a telegraphic appeal from
his former wife, whom he allowed
divorce so that she might marry
Kennedy.
Burch was said to have been iden-
tified yesterday by motorist, who says
he encountered Burch in the roadster
said to have been in the glen the night
Of the shooting.
The meeting occurred he said, near
Santa Monica canyon mouth, where Of
ficers recently declared they believed
the slayer of Kennedy had gone in
machine. throwing the gun used into the
ocean. The witness said that his lights
flashed into the car and that the man
inside the car was wearing dark goggles.
Such q pair of goggles was found on
Burch yesterday.
In the jail late yesterday the witness
requested that Burch put on his dark
glasses, which up to this time, 1t Is said,
ne had always donned when witnesses
had been brought against him. Burch
refused. and he was led into a private
room with the new witness What oc-
CURED within was not revealed.
Past relationship in the East between
Burch, Mrs. Obenchain and the dead
broker are under investigation, while
officers continued to-day the examina-
tion OF new and old witnesses.
SANTA BARBARA, Aug. 13.--Mrs. J. M.
Warren, wife of Santa Barbara banker,
who conversed with Arthur C. Burch. in
dlcted for murder In connection with the
shooting Of J. Bolton Kennedy, on a
westbound train July 22-23. said to-day
that he told her he was on his way to
Los Angeles to help friend in trouble.
Mrs Warren said that her conversation
with Burch had been given to the Los
Angeles authorities
Mrs. Warren said that Burch did not
go at length into his story, but did re-
veal that the friends trouble was a
love affair.
'Mr. Burch made no threats" she said.
Tile merely declared he would do what
ne could for the friend. She befriended
me-, he said. 1'Il do anything for her.
The woman. he explained, was lifelong
friend He mentioned no names, she
said.