Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-08-08
INVESTIGATION MARKED
TIME AT u. A. SUNDAY

Los Angeles, Aug. Z. - me IN
vestigation of the death of John
s. Kennedy, shot and killed harc
Friday shortly before midnight as
he was about to enter his sum-
mer cottage in Beverly Glen,
marked time here today. pending
the return from Las Vegas of
Deputy Sheriff Nolan, bringing in
custody Arthur C. Burch, of Ev-
anston, H., who was apprehended
late last night at the request Of
the Los Angeles officers.
Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain, the
young divorced woman, who was
with Kennedy when he was shot,
was continued in detention as a
material witness today, but she
was permitted to rest with very
little questioning. The inquest am
nounced to be held over Ken
nedy's body still remained in
definite as to time, also awaiting
the return of Burch.
The day being Sunday, closed
stores made it impossible to check
further in the search for a 12-
gauge shot gun, shells from which
were found where the assassin
had stood. Officers expected to
locate tomorrow the place where
the shells were bought If they
were procured locally Informa-
ton that Burch had no weapon in
his possession also turned atten-
tion to places that rent weapons,
and these We're to be checked to-
morrow also.
The authorities here now seek
two things in connection with the
Kennedy case; they want the
weapon and the motive. The lat
ter they believe they have found,
but it is of such a nature that it
cannot we'll be announced until it
has been more firmly established.
The missing weapon, however,
affords less of a problem. The
wound in Kennedy's head was
unquestionably made by a shot
gun. Investigators at the place
picked UP and turned over to the
sheriff two shells from such a
weapon. It's size and type was
established from the shells and
from evidence found in the body,
and tomorrow canvass of the
pawnshops and other places where
the gun might have either been
procured or disposed of after the
shooting is to be undertaken by
the authorities. A careful search
of the terrain around the Ken
nedy cottage was made today, in
the thought that the gun might
have been thrown aside near the
place, or as the murderer fled in
an automobile, but no trace of it
was discovered.
When Burch, now being re-
turned from Las Vegas, New. in
custody, first rented the room
across the street from Kennedy's
office, in which he spent a week
or more on watch, he told the no.
tel people that a cousin would
visit him from time to time. Mrs.
Obenchain, the hotel men said,
was not that cousin. Today
search for this missing woman
was continued in the belief that
she could throw light on the
tragedy. The only time that
Burch left his hotel for more
than a few minutes within the
week preceding the Staying. was
on the night it occurred. That
night he left after a telephone
had been taken for him
by the hotel clerk. 1t was sent
by'a feminine voice and the caller
said she was Burch's cousin, She
did not mention her name and
Burch never mentioned it in his
conversations with the hotel peo-
pie about her.
The sheriff said yesterday that
Burch had round trip ticket
from Chicago to Los Angeles,
and that he did not buy ticket
as reported. but had
his return ticket validated in
stead. Mrs. Obenchain also had
a round trip ticket. they said, which
had not been validated for re-
turn. when she was taken into
ouetodv aS material witness