Bisbee daily review., 1922-03-10

 excused himself and was absent dur ing that wait for three or four min utes. She said she did not ask Burch where he had gone.
 Then they went up town. she said ana they had dinner together at a hotel. It was there she told Burch that she wanted his help with Ken nedy and she told the jury that she --Id said at that time that she would not marry Kennedy without the con- sent of his parents. She said Ken nedy had urged a secret marriage, but that she had declined and it was after she had explained this situa- ton to Burch that she sought his aid.
 Mrs. Obenchan testified that dur ing the week after Burch's arrival, they were together much of the time She said they took numerous automo- bile rides together. In response to direct questions, she said they never went to Beverly Glen, where the shooting took place. and that she never told BurCh where Beverly Glen waSN
 Mrs. Cbenchain startled the court room by declaring that Kennedy came to her room in a local hotel in the latter part of last July and threat ened to kill her if she did not marry him.
 He wanted me to marry him se- Cretly and l objected" she testified Then he said: I've made up my mind that neither you nor | shall leave thls room alive. He drew a revolver but l grabbed his wrist and told him would call for a house detective. Then he quieted down, but said: You will elther go to Santa Ana and marry me or promise to go to Salt Lake with me, or you will never leave this room alone
 Referring frequently to a diary to refresh her memory as to dates, Mrs. Obenchain told of her arrival in Los Angeles on January ', 1921, and of her frequent requests to Kennedy for the return of the letters she had writ ten him. Always, she testified, he promised the letters, but she never did receive them.
 On almost every occasion that she talked with him. he would ask her to marry him secretly. but she re- fused, she said, insisting that sbe be taken to his parents and if there was to be any marriage, it be made known ? to them. Always, he gave the excuse, she said, that his mother was very nervous and because of her condition, , he could not always do the things , his mind would tell him to do." He finally told her he would leave town . for a flew days and think things cver," she said.
 | At last, she said, she could not withstand his pleadings longer, and l agreed to go to San Francisco, where | fn ba DrriaH then
 she said, that she thought of her promise to Ralph Obenchain, that she | would talk to him before she married anyone She decided to go to Chi Cago to see Ralph, she testified. A
 few minutes before train time, she
 telephoned Kennedy, she said, and
 told him that she was going to Chi
 cago.
 At this point in her testimony, one
 of her attorneys read from copy of letter which Kennedy wrote to her shortly after she left for Chicago :. Mrs. Obenchain sobbed quietly as the u letter was beiffg read, and had some iic difficulty in composing herself. 'I Arriving in Chicago in May, 1921 'i she received several letters from Ken nedy, she testified He wrote her
 she said, that he was planning on get ting away from his parents until they C. became reconciled to his marriage W with her. and if she thought best, he le would try to arrange for their mar C. riage in San Francisco.
 h. She left for California in June, she 'u testified, and upon stopping in San IL Francisco, learned from her friend l. Mrs Mabel Demond, that Kennedy $
 mother had been attacking her char
 &cter" Upon arriving in Los An9e
 les on July 6, she telephoned Kennedy who did not know she was coming
 and she saw him every day, sine tes - tified, until July II. She said tina! = Kennedy felt badly because of nls
 mothers actions, and suggested thSi he not call her for a day or two. He did not call her again, she said, until
 about July IT, and when l knew Il s was Belton, hung up the phone e If could die tonight, B. is false, | was the entry in her diary as a re L. suit of this occasion, she said. 't Mrs. Obenchain testified that Burch il arrived in Los Angeles July "A, and T having received a telegram from him Q telling her he was coming, she met C hIm at the depot.
 ! As I waited for him at the station l read magazine she said "As he
 got off the train, I noticed the only ! baggage he carried was a large suit case and book
 It was Mrs. Obenchain who suS
 gested the hotel across from Ken
 nedy's office to Burch, according tC
 her testimony.