Arizona republican., 1921-08-09
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 ANGELEN0 ASSASSIN
Rented Car Equipped With Peculiar Tread Tires Fits Marks Made By Death Car In Beverly Glen
 IDENTIFY WOMAN Hotel Proprietor Says Mrs. Obenchain Is Woman Who Visited Down Town Room Rented By Suspect
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LOS ANGELES. Aug S.-Admis- slons made by Arthur C. Burch. re- turned here today in connection with the staying last Friday of ]. BeIton Kennedy, led today to the discovery of rented roadster equipped with tires of peculiar tread. which tires made an impression that fitted the marks left in lane last Friday night by car supposed to have been driven by the slayer.
 Officers uncovered evidence tend ing to indicate Burch rented a car that night.
 Burch and Madelynne Obenchain. the young woman held as a material witness. were returned to their cells in the county jail today after they had separately faced interviewers from the district attorneys office and after each had. according to the in- reviewers. made statements that failed to correspond with those of the other.
 Kennedy was shot on the steps of his little summer cottage in Beverly. Glen while Mrs. Obenchain. a young divorced woman. awaited him at the top of the flight of steps leading to his door, Burch was taken from train at Las Vegas. Ney. and re- turned here in custody after it had been shown that he and Mrs. Oben- chain were childhood friends, college mates ana had been in correspo11- dence recently and that Burch had sat in hotel room across Broadway from Kennedy's office for 10 days be- fore the staying. had been absent from his room when it occurred and had left for his home in Evanston. ILL. the following morning.
 Today, aided by guarded state ments from Burch, deputies from the sheriff's office found that a man giv- ing the name of 'Jones's and the ad- dress of an uncle and aunt of Burch. his only relatives here, had rented an automobile here from an agency ons the night of the killing.
 A reconstructicSa of the killing by officers developed that the man who killed Kennedy stood in ambush after placing his car in an unused road leading to gravel pit not far from the Kennedy cottage. Marks of the tires were found in this road and elsewhere Today officers drove the roadster that had been taken by Jones" to the scene of the shooting and compared the tires with the i'm prints there. The tire design was unusual, the officers said.
 Mrs Oberchain denied, according to the officers. that she had ever vis- ited Burch's room across the street from Kennedy's office. A photograph of the woman was shown the hotel proprietor shortly after her deten- ton and he said she was not the vis- itor Today, after seeing her in per- son at the Jail, he changed his state- ment and identified her positively as the woman who had frequently visit ed Burch's room and whose calls had been explained by the statement that she was a cousin" and called on business.
 The officers were engaged tonight in trying to trace the shotgun with which Kennedy was killed. It was a twelve gauge gun. they know. for the empty shells were picked up at the cottage But a thorough search Of tLe vicinity failed to bring it to light and they believed that it had either been rented and returned to the owners or else placed in pawn after the shooting They sent out a re-
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