Evening star., 1921-08-11
|cAtL.15 WITNESSES
NkENNEIDY INQUIRY
Grand bury List in Murder
Hearing May Have Some
Additional Names
oMITs BURcH, PRISONER
Fails to Include Mrs. 0benchain,
Slain Mans Companion.
Secrecy in Case.
0MITS BURcH, PRISONER
BY the Associated Press.


LOS ANGELES. Calf, August IL
Fifteen persons were named by the
district attorneys office today as un-
der subpoena to testify before the Los
Angeles county grand jury. summoned
in special session today in connection
with the staying of J. Bolton Kennedy.
1t was intimated others would be
called whose names were to be kept
secret up to the time the jury con-
venes.
1t was not planned. District Attor-
ney Woolwine said, to call Arthur c.
Burch of Evanston. ILL.,, who is being
held on charge of suspicion of mur-
der. or, Mrs. Madelynne Obenchain,
kennedy's companion when he was
erly Hills last Friday night. The dis
trict attorney said the jury would be
asked to indict. but would not specify
the number of indictments to he
asked.
The witnesses named include Mrs
M. Louise Wilson, manicurist. said
to have been confidante of Mrs.
Obenchain: John d. Kennedy. father
of the slain man, who testified at the
inquest Mrs Obenchain had begged
his son to marry her; T. NJ Haley,
manager of downtown hotel where
Burch occupied a rooan for two weeks
prior to the staying. the window of
which was nearly opposite that of an
office the Kennedys occupied as In
surance brokers; A 3. Niles, nigEt
clerk at the hotel, who told depul
sheriffs Burch left the hotel Frida.
night with a long package under his
arm and returned without it; Dic'l
Parsons proprietor of an automobil
district attorneys Office alleges Burc@
| rented car Friday night; Lynne
Keith, night manager of the Parson
place, from whom the car was rented
Deputy Sheriff John Comm. who mad
the first investig cation and question
Mrs. Obenchain at the scene Of tn
shooting; Sheriff Deputies Nolan an.
| Bright, who brought Burch from L.;
Vegas, New. where he had been al
rested on a train bound from L.
Angeles to Chicago last SATURDAY
and Otis NJ. Wiles, reporter. wh'
F.! found two empty shotgun shells ne&.
the Kennedy cottage.
The mother. of the slain man an"
| the mother and sister of Mrs. Oben-
| chain were among those named
| under subpoena.
Search for the shotgun with whic'
IT is claimed Kennedy was kill
| continued today. Failure to find Il
weapon was described by invest
gators as the only weak point
| the case"
Hardware Clerks Visit.
A feature of late yesterdays de-
! velopments was the purported visI;
l to the district attorneys Office of
young hardware clerk of this cit.
1 who was understood to have sold shot
gun shells to a stranger in his stoI
| about ten days ago. 1t was under
| stood an attempt was made to iden-
| tify Burch as the man to whom the
| clerk sold shells corresponding TO
! the two discharged ones found in the
| bushes near the scene of the killing.
I Assistant District Attorney Keyes
declined to say what information hi
had contributed to the investigation
The large black leather bag sen;
| from San Francisco yesterday to Mrs.
/ Obenchain. in care of the hotel at
v hich she was staying before her de
tention by the authorities, yielded
nothing of value to the investigation.
il was said.
| A strict censorship of Information
coming from the district attorneys
office was declared by Mr.. Woolwine
yesterday.
We have some good leads" he said.
but they cannot be discussed now.