Arizona republican., 1921-12-08
MRS. OBENCHAlN FORECAST DEATH OF ]. 3. KENNEDY
 WITNESS CLAIMS
Relates Conversation In Beauty Parlor In Which Woman Predicted Mur- der Of Lover
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 LOS ANGELES. Dec. "A conver- sation in a beauty parlor. involving a prediction of the death of J. Belton Kennedy. was the major topic of tes- timony today in the trial of Arthur c. Burch, accused of murderiag Ken nedy. The conversation was de- scribed by Mrs. Mary A. Bailiff of Los Angeles, who said Mrs. Mada- lynne Obe1chain, accused jointly with Burch, had made the prediction of Kennedy's death. Long cross exam ination failed to change her story.
 Mrs. Bailiff said she met Mrs. Obenchain first at the beauty parlor last spring and that they ''got to talk ing as women will" Later, she said, they met again at the same place. and she described to Mrs. Obenchaln dream she had had. in which she saw Mrs. Obencain on country road with a crowd approaching.
 sT couldn't tell whether it was a funeral or a wedding procession" the witness declared, and addec she thought it strange she should dream such a thing about stranger. where upon Mrs. Obenchain said:
 "I' know exactly what it meant. l feel something is going to happen; Belton will soon pass out. Ana later she said. ''Belton will soon pass out I could almost put my hand on the spot where it will happen" Mrs. Bailiff said Mrs Obenchain on July 25 invited her to lunch with her at the hotel where Mrs. Oben- chain was stopping and she did so on July 27. Then, she went on. Mrs Obenchain told her she would never marry Belton." | q asked her why, and she answered because he had deceived her" the witness continued. "She said she had a detective from Chicago watching | him."
 During the same conversation. Mrs. | Bailiff testified, Mrs. Obenchaln called Kennedy a degenerate" Did she say she would not marry l him because he was a deeenerate! defense attorney. Paul w. Schenck, l asked in cross examination. "No she said she would not marry him because he had deceived her. The witness said Mrs. Obenchain | telephoned her to come to the hotel on August 1. and when she did so told her Kennedy had come to her room at 10 o'clock the night before and r.ged her to marry him.
 "She said he had revolver with him and took it out and laid it on a dresser.' the witness said. Later he put it in the bath room and she said she got it and that he struggled with her for three hours trying to get Il away from her She said she knew it would be safe with her but she didn't know what he would do witf it. He staved until o'clock in the morning. she said. and during that time his parents called uD twice or the telephone. trying to find him.
 T said: Tt seems to me if you wanted to marry him you ought tC have done it when he asked you?' Mrs. Obenchain also said. accord ing to the witness:
 q wonder how long he thinks ht can play with me and get away witf it''
 On another occasion, the witnes. said, Mrs. Obenchain said: 'I feel
 am going to see Mrs. Peete and tall !, with her. I can just see myself il
 jail" Mrs Louise l.. Peete, convicted of the murder of J. c. Denton, wa then in the Los Angeles county jail
 Mrs. NJ L. Wilson. owner of tn
 beauty parlor, next witness, identified
 several post cards and letters sh'
 said Mrs Obenchain wrote her las
 June In one of these was a referenc
 words: "This is his last chance.
 Mrs. Wilson was not questioned abou
 the testimony of Mrs. Bailiff and i
 was announced she would be calle'
 as a defense witness.
 The last witness of the day wa
 K. K. Cummings. who testified tha on the night Kennedy was slain il Beverly Glen he saw an automobil
 parked in a side road near the seen
 of the slaving. He said he noticed i
 because "the dimmers were on in tn
 headlights" This was about o'cloc
 he said. The prosecution contend Burch left a rented automobile a z this spot while he lay in wait fo Kennedy. in front of the latter's sum v p,er COf+a oa