Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-17

munication with her during the time tshe
was living with the Chicago lawyer?
2. What strange influence does she ex-
ert over Obenchain to force him to allow
her to obtain a divorce so that she might
ny to Kennedy? And now what powerful
impulse leads Obenchain to give up his
position, prospects of advancement and
rush half way across the continent to
her aid?
s. What is her hold on Arthur C.
Burch, that he should leave bis business
bankrupt and travel 5000 miles ''to help
out a pal?"
The only explanation Of Burch and
obenchain Is that. she Is innocent $
Woolwine said. THAT doesn't explain
case.
SEEKS SOLUTION OF
SILENCE CONSPIRACY"
They have made no effort to help us
arrive at the true solution Of this crime
If they are innocent, why don't they do
so? Burch doesn't try to explain the
tracks of the automobile which we can
prove he took from the garage. Why
doesn't he tell us where he went on that
forty four mile drive if he is innocent
lie hasn't told US about the package he
rushed from the hotel with in answer 90
a call believed to hsvs come from Ma
dalynne; nor of Madalynnes visits dis
guised as a blonde, TO his room, nor OF
his undoubted espionage on Kennedy s
Office"
What was he doing here anyway %
snapped the prosecutor.
WoOlwine said he was going TO hnd out
what these two are afraid will become
public-so much afraid, If they are inno-
cent, as they claim-that they will face
the gallows before they will reveal It"
The prosecutor declared il the two were
innocent and they told the truth freely
when questioned, ways would have been
found 60 substantiate their statements"
and they probably would not have been
indicted.
Obenchain, one point Of the strange
triangle, sat in the office OF Lecompte
Davis. criminal lawyer, and participant
in a hundred hard fought murder trials,
studying the law Of crime.
Obenchain, who Is a civil lawyer, with
not a criminal case to his record, en-
deavOred TO gain some knowledge OF the
California statutes on which his former
wife's fate rests.
HUSBANDS FAITH
REMAINS UNsHAKEN.
Il know she Is innocent and l don't
believe the stories l have heard about
her" he said "She never deceived me.
She told me OF everything she did.
knew OF Kennedy. I knew OF Burch. We
talked things over honestly and clearly.
They talk Of Madalynne about to be-
come a mother It's impossible. There
is one doctor now In Evanston who knows
that beyond a question
Even since her divorce. MadaIynne
came to me for advice. / was her con
fdante. knew what she did and I know
Just what I am doing. l am going to
find out who killed Kennedy and why.
am-going to bare his life to the world so
every one will know just the kind Of a
man he was. In that barring, I expect 10
find the solution Of the murder"
A fight to release Mrs. Obenchain for
the murder Of J. Bolton Kennedy, from the
county jail on bail, pending her trial,
viii be started as soon as she enters her
plea at her arraignment before Superior
Judge Reeve Monday. IL developed.
The application for bah for Mrs. Oben-
chain will be based on the claim that
confinement In the fail VIII ruin her
saIth because OF her fratl physical con-
dltion. 1t was stated.
v nile the California law makes the
question OF ball in a murder case dis
cretionsry with the court. Los Angeles
judges have an unaltersble rule against
the release OF persons charged with muir
der. pending trial.
Friends Of Mrs Obenchsin declared
that should the application for bail be
overruled the court would be asked to
transfer her from the Jail to the county
hospital. where confinement IL less irk-
some