Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-16
KENNEDY SPIED
UPON BY COUPLE
WITNESS AYERS
Hotel Proprietor Tells How
Mrs. 0benchain and
BurCh Watched Office of
Man who Later was Slain
By The Associated rress.,

Los Angeles Calf. Feb. 15.-A
word picture Of Mrs. Madalynne
Obenchain, sitting SHOULDER to
shoulder with her co-defendant,
Arthur Burch. at the window OF his
room in a downtown hotel both of
them looking toward the office of
j. Bolton Kennedy in building
across the street, late today was
given to the jury sitting in the
Wonan's trial on the charge of
numbering Kennedy.
Thomas Haley proprietor of the
hotel in which Burch stayed, gave
the picture, under examination by
Asa Keyes, deputy district attorney.
"Burch asked permission to have
the woman visit him in his room,
saving she was his cousin. and said
he would prop the door open,"
Haley testified. ~ saw her there
four or five times. She and Buren,
always were sitting together look
ing out OF the window toward Ken
nedy's office. | also observed Burch
daily from July "a, when he rented
the room, till August 5. the day
preceding the evening Kennedy
was killed sitting at the window"
Haley testified that when Burch
rented the room he looked out of
the window, INSTEAD of at the FUR
niture of the ROOM" and SAID ne
wanted the next room south, Whlch,
it. was brought out. was more
nearly opposite Kennedys office.
Haleys testimony closed the
court day, which otherwise was
filled with reading of love letters
written by Mrs. Obenchain to Ken
nedv. According to the state $
theory, these letters showed the
motive for the Staying. The prose-
cution attributes to Mrs. Obenchain
the rage Of woman scorned.' ~
is contended this is shown by such
passages as:
rest of life il anything happened
to YOU" written in 1917, in early
mart of the romance, and you are
q coward, laughing at bleedlns
heart" written a short time before
Kennedy was killed.
The letters all were read to the
Jury in the trial of Burch, which
terminated a month ago in dis
agreement of the jury.
Extracts from the letters follow:
"Td like to lie quietly in
YOUR arms and slcep--sleep
tll God sends me a better
dream.s
"You seem so close to me;
even when sleeping, 1 feel yon
near and you press my lips
SO hard you wake me up"
"When / turn out my light,
please come and let me rest
close to your heart"
"These mountains are tire
some. The ocean. my first
love, and you, my last, are the
only things that never tire
me-
Good night, I love you
much"
"s & till God sings my
weary heart to sleep"
"Don't fear your letters will
not reach me. Mr.. O. under
stands this situation too thor
oughIy ard me TOO well ever
to open my MALL
glove Is az That makes this
earthly llfe worth while"
"T want you strong enough to do
what you want to do, or / don't
want you at all
1--WE both should have been big
enough to have played square af-
ter my marriage. Mr.. o. is too
big to stoop to deceit. | am un-
worthy of him. ! would have gone
back to him and done my duty but
l listened to your love words, not
your acts"
"Why did you take me In your
arms and tell me that you loved
me and beg me to get a divorce?
"Why couldn't you let me go?"
did you ever try to make me
happy?"
II never want to marry you I'M
less you love me?"
"Unless you come to me by fif-
tenth, 1t will be the end. This is
final" ..t"
More than thirty letters will be
read into the record, it is said.