Evening star., 1921-08-12
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SEEN BY KENNEDY
Janitress Says He Left Of
flee After Handkerchief
Waved From Window.
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 12.-The
discovery of the butt of double
barreled shotgun in the Pacific ocean
near Santa Monica, was announced
today by sherin's officers investi-
eating the staying of ]. Bolton Ken
nedy.
The butt was found by a camper.
1t was announced. 1t was lying on
the beach after the surf had receded.
Mrs. Madalynne Ohenchain of Los An
geies and Arthur c. Burch of Evanston.
Ill. former students at Northwestern
University, were indicted late yes
terday for the murder of John Bel
ton kennedy.
Mrs. Obenchain. who was with
Kennedy last Friday night when he
received the shotgun charge that
tore away the back of his head. had
been held as a material witness.
Burch was arrested at Las Vegas.
New. on Sunday, while returning
home from Los Angeles. He had
by Mrs. Obenchain.
The indictments were returned be-
fore Judge Sidney Reeves Of the su-
perior court. who had been requested
by the grand jury to remain at the
hall of records to receive a report
after his usual court hours. Judge
Reeves remanded the prisoners to
the county Jail, to be arraigned Mon
day.
While the grand jury was hearing
Ralph Obenchain, former husband OF
Mrs. Obenchain, who gave her up
so that she might marry Kennedy,
sent word that he was rushing to
her assistance. Late yesterday she
had telegraphed that he would come
to her.
Arrangement of Madalynne oben
chain and Arthur c. Burch is the
next event scheduled in the investi-
cation Of the Staying of J. Belton
the two were indicted last night
Meantime a wide search continues
for the missing shotgun with which
the broker was killed. A reward OF
$3.50 has been offered by local
newspaper.
New Evidence Added.
Two new bits of evidence have been
made public. A doctor who gave
Burch a physical examination when
he was placed in Jail under suspicion
of murder declared late yesterday be-
fore the grand jury that at the time
Burch's shoulder appeared to be
ton, he implied, might have resulted
from the recoil of a shotgun.
1t was also said that a thorn had
been. removed from the left knee of
Burch since his Incarceration. The
glen in which the death of Kennedy
occurred is said to be extremely
brushy.
Officers of private detective
agency, working with newspaper men.
declared they had discovered a new
witness in the person of a janitress
in the building in which Kennedy had
his office.
Three nights prior to the staying.
according to the story the janitress
told Investigators, Kennedy left his
office in response to handkerchief
wave from woman in hotel room
across the downtown street. Accord
ing to the janitress' statements, this
was the room which she later learned
was Burch's. She said her curiosity
was aroused. and from the street she
could see. besides a woman in the
She said that Kennedy returned to
his office after ten or fifteen minutes.
Her story has been conveyed to the
district attorney.
Mrs. Obenchain, who collapsed, fol-
lowing her indictment yesterday,
seemed much improved later when
word came that her former husband,
Ralph Obenchain, Chicago attorney.
had left Chicago to be with her dur
ing the trial.
A telegram received by Burch in
Jail also materially frightened the
young college man. 1t was from his
father, the Rev. William A. Burch.
Illinois minister. 1t read: Arrive
Los Angeles Sunday afternoon"
Burch and Mrs. Obenchain saw each
other for the first time late in the
day, but they were some distance
apart and neither made any effort to
talk with the other. Across the width
of the prison. Mrs. Obenchain stood
chatting with her attorney. Burch
was in his cell, the bars of which
opened into the corridor.