The Washington times., 1921-08-14
THREAT TO KILL
KENNEDY LAID.
At bURCH' SDOOR
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friends of Arthur C. Burch and Mrs
Madalynne obenchain. 1t was learned
today. when preliminary arrange
ments being made for the trial Of the
two became known.
A leading criminal attorney of this
city, who asked that his name be
withheld for ethical reasons, disclosed
| that friends Of Burch's family had
approached him concerning the case
and had assured him that S25, 900
. could easily be raised for Burch's de.
Tense.
When the attorney informed those
who consulted him that he would not
enter the case unless he was retained
, to defend both Burch and Mrs. Oben-
chain, he was told that such an ar
rangement would be satisfactory and
that a joint defense had already been
decided on. The parties who con-
ferred with the attorney stated they
represented Burch's parents.
Burch's father, an Evanston minis
ter, and Attorney Ralph 8. Obenchain,
of Chicago, the divorced husband of
Mrs. Obenchain, for whom she sent
Thursday, will arrive in Los Angeles
tomorrow night and will Immediately
confer with the attorney who was
consulted by Burch's friends.
Nervous and worn from a weeks
confinement in jail. Burch today was
believed by officers to be near the
point of breaking the silence which
he has maintained with uncanny
fortitude since his arrest.
Mrs. Obenchain does not believe
her love for Kennedy was genuine.
Today she gazed through the bars
of her cell awaiting Ralph c. Oben.
chain, her divorced husband, who
said he still loved her and would
stand by her. He has left Chicago
and will reach here Sunday.
Her Love Wavering.
IT am beginning to believe that 1
did not love Bolton at ALL" she said.
II must have been in love merely
with an idea. Perhaps an ideal, as
Ralph Obenchain used to say. For
IL he told his parents the things they
cay he did, and told me the things /
knew he did, then I was not in love
with Bolton Kennedy. | am in love
only with my ideal Of Belton.'
A rumor that Mrs. Obenchain was
soon to become a mother was EN-.
phatically denied by her.
That report is untrue; so absurd"
she said. 1T seems awfully unfaii
not only to me, but to Bolton. Wheth-
er he really loved me or not 1 mus,
! say that Bolton Kennedy was the
cleanest, most moral man ever knew.
That my relations with him or with
any one, for that matter, could have
been as suggested Is most revolving
to me. / am not angry, I'm just ter
ribly hurt by the report. It's bad
enough to be charged with a CHASTITY
crime, but this report Is worse to
one who. however wrong l may have
been about Bolton. had never any
cause to be ashamed"
Arthur c. Burch, who was indicted
with Mrs. Obenchain for the murder.
was downhearted today. They will
be arraigned for preliminary hear.
ing Monday and are expected to plea.l
not guilty to the indictments.
AT first 1t was hard to believe tina,
Bolton could have told his parents he
wanted to break with me; that he
did not love me and that he had beer
going with other girls. After his
death I believed loved him more
than ever. but now / don't know"
Mrs. Obenchain said IL Kennedy
had lied to her, then my ideal was
only bubble and death has pricked
It," She regretted she had not listened
TO her husband.
Wants Ralph Again.
IF had only listened to my hus.
band things might have been differ.
ent. wouldn't have traded a finger
of Ralph Obenchain for all Of Bolton
Kennedy as a man. But loved Bel
ton That, 7 guess, was just human
nature.
Ralph understood me, does under
stand me, letter than / understand
myself and better than anyone else
understands me, perhaps. He often
told me that / would not marry Bel
ton Kennedy when 1t came to brass
lacks, because, as he put 1t, I was
never In love with Bolton, but only
with the man I thought Bolton was"
Mrs. Obenchain was lost in thought
q moment. then said: Yes. l guess
Ralph called the turn. L suppose
never would have married Bolton.
But. oh God, what a shame II seems
for q woman to lose the five finest
years of her life for a phantom"
Mrs. Obenchain made no further
plans for her defense. She Is wait
ing for the man she cast aside, but
who still loves her and will stand by
her. When he left Chicago for Los
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