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Show WOMAN WITNESS FORMS SURPRISE Costumer Tells of Dealings With Elder Kennedy and Slain Son LOS ANGELES, July 22. Mrs . A. Osgood, a costumer. furnished a surprise late Wednesday in the trial I of Mrs. Madalynnc Obenchain for the j murder of J. Belton Kenedy, by telling tell-ing of dealings she had had with Ken-ned Ken-ned and his father. J. D Kennedy. The elder Kennedy, Mrs Osgood declared, de-clared, came to her place last Match during the first trial of Mrs. obenchain oben-chain and asked for a mourning costume cos-tume for his wife I "I ask, him whether he wanted it for a- movie or for a funeral, ' the Witness said "He replied. I am Mr. Kennedy, the father of the oung man who was killed in Beverly Glen My wife It to testify today and her trunks have not arrived. I want her to look as mournful as she did ln the trial of Arthur Burch, for it makes a good Impression Im-pression on the Jury " Mrs. Osgood said she told Mr Ken-1 ncdy she had no costume of the kind he wanted Mr. Kennedy had denied that such I I conversation took place. Mrs. (in-1 good also testified that tho younger Kennedy hod rented costumes from I her during his lifetime, the last visit being ln July, 1921, about a month be-I fore he was slain. She said he v. accompanied by a young man he In-j troduced as Roman and the two had; tented female costumes saying they: were going to wear them to a party I that niirht The witness said she' heard Kennedy say to Roman on that occasion that another man had threatened threat-ened to "beat him up" if he should marry. INFORMS DFFKNSE Paul Roman, now a con", let in Essoin Es-soin penitentiary, testified that Mrs. J Obenchain sought to have him gl e 'false testimony for her. Mrs. usgood 'said that after reading Roman's testl-ImohS testl-ImohS in a newspaper she told defense 'attorneys of her alleged dealings with ;the Kennedys Other testimony included contra-jdlctlons contra-jdlctlons of bits of Roman's testimony bv tail attendants ONE MOKE WITNESS Just befote court adjournment Jul R Rush, chief of defense counsel mated he had one more witness to call who was not then ln court. Court attaches took this to mean that Mr. I 'benchaln Would not testifv ln her own behalf, as on her first trial Ru?h refused to say whether she would he a witness It had been expected sh" w ould. I Should Mrs. (ibenchain not be railed 'as a witness, however, her previous testimony is a part of this trial, having been read to the Jury by the prosecution. prosecu-tion. en |