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Show WARM LETTERS I OF LOVE READl Jury in Burch Trial Hears Tender Missives Sent By Mrs. Obenchain LOS ANOELRS. April 25 Wit- ncssea for the prosecution in the trial ; of Arthur C. Burch for the murder: of J. Belton Kennedy last Aupru-t told Monday how Burch kept what the atate fleslgnatea as a 'death watch" on Kennedy for several days prior to his death This tostimony came late In the afternoon after Dep-1 utv Distrlet Attorney Asa Keyos h.i finished reading jnnny letters written by .Mrs. Midalynne Obon-! .bain co-defendant, now waiting her second trial, tho Jury having! disagreed dis-agreed In the first. According to Thorn a lliles. prc-prletor prc-prletor Of a hotel on Broadway op-poslte op-poslte Kenned) i office, Burch i phoped July 24, 1921, for a room and Shortly after called to awe It. He I requested a particular room at th" front of the house, Haley aald. Haley told the Jury that be saw Burcii and Mrs. Obenchain, who Burch said was his cousin, In tho room together on several occasions. On the night of August S. Burch left the hotel hurriedly about 7:45. according to Haley. He carried a package under his arm which looked very much like a broken down Bhot- b;im Haley 1 1 rj . Cross-examination i of Hai' '. commenced shortly icf"re ' court adjotirned for tho day. A man of Buroh'a build end general appearance sal ii his room at the i hotel lookinK out of the window in I tho general direction of Kennedy's office across the street for several hours every day prior to Kennody's death, according to the testimony of ramea T McLaren; who occupied of-flces of-flces In the same building with Kennedy. Ken-nedy. While McLaren said ho could see into tho room quite distinctly, he declined to positively identif. Burch as being the banio man LOVE STORY SKlTCHED. The reading of letters and telegrams tele-grams to the Jury occupied most of the day. nce again a lovo story connecting Mrs. Lmenchaln and Ken nedy, and which the prosecution claims supplied the motive for !ho crime. Va made a matter of court record. On March 4, 1918. Kennedy wrot Mrs. Obenchain who was in San Francisco ' "You are in the city of darkness to me, where I have often .-.uffered. but yet 1 love ltr and some day I ; shall conquer It then I ihall laugh at it. Bathos!' Murh lovo to it." In answor to this lettor, Mr.v Qbetl I chain wroto Kennedy: "I've bc?n thinking too. and per-1 haps unduly. What a mess we j sometimes make of life. How we 1 wiipte the years In a vain search fori tho blue bird.' Tell mo why. Bol-ton Bol-ton must it take a whole lifetime to learn how to live. I didn't glvo your love to tho city of darkness Please forgive me but I hid It In a lonely corner of my heart." REFERENCE TO MORMONS. Again she wrote from San Francisco Fran-cisco "It is 4 o'clock now and I'm aloo' Not that It makes any difference to : you whether I'm alone, but I prefer! to have you know and feel that 1 am alone except for your pouting spirits. This hotel Is certainly full of them. iood heavens! What did you do h'-re. commit murder, or bre.il. a hourt'' Belton, I don't believe you have been out of my mind once since I left you Even when I was sleep- ' ing. I eould feel you close to me and your Hps would press mine so hard It would awaken me." From Coronado Beach. Calif, she j wrote "How I wish you were here. There is a gorgeous moon, and the world seems very beautiful once again I have only one wlh. thut is to share my happiness with you, but sonic-1 time, yes? W hat if your mother tells i me when I phone that you have gone I to Salt Lake. Well, dear old Mor-! nion. don't forget your Queen Bee'. fOr I am still your faithful. I (Signed) "MRS. J. BELTON KENNEDY " JI'sT u l BR W BIDDING On February 14 15H9. six weeks af - j ter her marriage to Ralph Obon-Ohaln, Obon-Ohaln, a lawyer of Chicago, Mr-Obem Mr-Obem bain wrote to Kennedy: "Little did I dream that man-made' laws eould bind mo to another so ' li:;iii ly .. nl crush so mercilessly when lasl 1 wrote to you. Much has hap- poned since then, but you and I ' know why it had to be that 1 enough We also know that some- ' time we will be together. " Everyone t against us No one i I I an live knowing what It all leads to, but if I shouldn't. I want you to be brave to make the best you can out of life Instead of breaking under the thought and dream of What might have been. Goodbye, my own, there are no words to tell you how greatly my love is for you. " In another letter she said 'Must we patiently sit and wait"' i No. Belton. don t let tho conventions I of earth den um happiness. As Qo I is my Judge, we can't be wronft if I we silently steal away and rest. Hold I me close to youi heart always, and lot me whisper my love to you over and over. 'You are the Wonder Flower Flow-er of tho passions of my life'." LOVE GROWS COLD. According to the testimony of Mr-.' ' Obenchuin as given In her first trial. Mr Obenchain agreed thut she should I j gl a dioree and that sho wont to i Chicago for that purpose. Sho testified testi-fied that while there she became con- vineed that Kennedy had decided to I listen to his parents, who objected to his marriage to her. and not to come to Chicago for her as ho hud promised At this time sho wrote Kennody in part a.s follows. "Sometimes my heart cries out to God to sae some little particle of faith of loe in you, but It is gone. I know it. and my life la going too Goodbye, you will sometimes some-times hear tho echo of my cry even after I um dead Goodbys." Again she wrote him "Is thla cold fcollng in my heart drawing me slowly awny or la It my love struggling In death' If only death could have taken me while I still believed in you. I know I now you never loved me. Nothing on earth or in Heaven could ever ! make me believe It May God bless you and forgive you as I do." Very soon after she wrote. "Forgive tho cruel letter forglvo mo. please. In u most beautiful dream It has all been revealed to mo. I know you have loed me." OBENCHAIN RETURNS. CHICAOO. April 26. Ralph B. Obenchain home from Los Angeles, where Mrs. Madelynne Obenchain, his divorced wife, is being held in con-' con-' nection with the murder of J. Bl-ton Bl-ton Kennedy, does not know whether he will return to the coast. Whether he goes back depends on 'what happens hap-pens in tho future." Recent reports from Ios Angles wore to the effect that ObenchuUi j had doclded not to remarry his former for-mer wife and that he would take ro further part in her defense. "I went to Madelynne because she was in trouble and asked me to come " he said "As long as I could be of service. I willingly remnlned If Burch is acquitted there may be no need for mo to return. Only 'he future will tell. I frankly do not know whether I shall return ' Arthur C. Burch, Joinllv inflicted with Mrs. Obenchain, now Is on rial for the third time. CALLS REPORTS "BOSH." Ho said there had been no hHncre in "our feeling for each other," commenting com-menting on the reported breach, and declined to say whether the fund-ness fund-ness that orco held them together h id been renewed. He declared that whether they are going to narry again "is something for me to keep nllence about." Mr. Obenchain cl&M6d as "all bosh" reports that Burch and Mrs Obenchain were sweethearts. "Suppose Madelynne Is found Innocent In-nocent in her next trial." he was asked 'Will ou go out there to tak- her away from those scenes?" That is for the future to decide," Mr Obenchain replied- Tho younK attorney said he hid returned to Chlj;' to resume the practice of law 116 said he understands under-stands things have been gotm: very well with Mrs. Obenchain and that he docs not intend to engage new counsel, because he ioes not think it necessary. |