The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-11
KENNEDYS CASE
LOVE AT SIGHT
Madalynne, Again on Wit
mess Stand, Explains
Her Love Affair
ALWAYS LOVED BELTON
Broke Engagement to Him
Due to Conditions at His
Home She Considered Bars

ros ANGELES, March 10-Mrs.
,g5alyuue Conner obenchaln, pale
ari somewhat nervous, took the
,.,r5 today TO face cross-examina-
r,r by the state upon her story Of
,,.t..1.y OF her love for J. Bolton
T,rp,ly and his death by shooting
q, r.r frigl on a charge of murder
t'c n..4 She assumed a position In
W,o v.frrgs chair so that she could
face the jury.
Love at First Sight.
That lt was. in the case OF Ken
ro5y fYg, at first sight, as indicated
hy Nirs OhonChain in her responses
W. ,Ec initial questions of the cross
oy,,1Iroti1n by Asa Keyes, deputy
Jls,r..t attorney. She testified she
Urs, met Kennedy at her mothers
q homo r.ro in 1917 when he was
sbowina property to a relative.
TTcy MET several times soon there
afisr. and the second or third time
he mentioned love to her she testi-
fled
INIT Was under obligations to an
other girl" she testified. 1t was
tbe simmer OF 1918 that Mr.. Ken
reJy first asked her TO marry him,
She said. She gave her consent on
August 81, 1918.
- The engagement continued five
months. she said. Ralph Oben-
chain. former school chum, arrived
IN Los Angeles on December "a,
Ielg. The day following Christmas
she tol,nhoucd to Kennedy and
broko the engagement, a week be-
fore her marriage TO Obenchain.
WHY She Broke Engagement.
The reason for breaking the en-
ragemcnt with Kennedy, she said,
was that in her opinion the home
conditions Of Kennedy made mar
riage impossible. She said that dur
ing the engagement, the relations
between her family and the family
OF Kennedy were friendly. Phrases
Of two love letters from Mrs. Oben-
chain 10 kennedy we're read by the
deputy district attorney. These
were dated February and IS, 1919.
"My love, my life is yours! 1t
won't be long before can come
10 you" read one of her phrases I'm
the lNIItINs I lt prosecutor dShtu
what she meant In writing that.
Il meant that Bolton had in
duced me TO leave Ralph" Mrs.
Obenchain replied.
Always Loved BcltOn.
in response to questions she said
that she had been i'm rove with Ken
nsdy at the time she married Oben-
chain.
Discussions Of separation from
0benChain were held with Kennedy
shortly after her marriage to Oben-
chain. she testified. In June. 1919,
Kennedy suggested that she obtain
an annulment She wat hesltant
IN her answer today in striking COM
parsOn with the composure and
facility with which she responded
TO her attorney yesterday.
The prosecutor read from a letter
dated May IA, 1919, from Oben-
chain TO Kennedy:
Must we patiently sit and walt?
NO, Belton, no. Don't let the con-
Nentions Of the earth deny our hap
piness'
What did you mean by that?"
The prosecutor asked.
Il meant that / never believed in
divorce she replied.
Was Anxious 10 See Him.
Mrs Obenchain later was in Los
Angeles and returned TO Chicago
october 7, upon which date she sent
the following telegram to Kennedy:
Am certain will get annulment
this month, Please come this
month or sooner IL you can"
she said that this meant that she
expected Kennedy TO come to Chi
eago TO marry her. His answer
testified.
The prosecutor then examined
heT as u her visit here in January.
i5-I' She said that she had no
aea OF seeing Kennedy when she
,ame here, her visit being merely for
aer health and TO see old friends.
sne old see kennedy later in an
ellort TO obtain letters that she had
written 20 him.
=, lou did meet Mr.. Kennedy and
Me old spark Of love was rekindled
vas , II notF' the prosecutor asked.
,,ies,' she replied.
cue told OF agreeing with Ken
.gtey mat they would be married,
rs agreement being made April /.
snueuy so tod her that he failed to
49,, 70 chicago in response to her
bsIss.s owing TO the objection of
ons OF the February letters was
,S asI oy Mrs. Obenchain, Your
%eetheart wife"
hne prosecutor asked her what
Sa meant by that phrase. She
s,5Ied mat II was meant as an
ksss ks0arlhs term, that she had never
''H married 10 Kennedy.