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Show ALIBIS SOUGHT i BURCH CASE Woman Willing to Testify on Whereabouts of Defendant Is 111 LOS' AN&ELES, Muy 10. Efforts to establish an alibi for Arthur C. j Burch on trial for tho murder of J. I Belton Kennedy, were continued by j the defense Tuesday and culmlnatrd i In an oarly adjournment to take depo-I depo-I sitlon of n woman expected to tesil-I tesil-I fy as to tho whereabouts of Burch i on the night of August fifth last. , when Kennedv was slain Paul W. Schenck. defense attorney. ' declared the woman. Mrs. Bmma El-i El-i derton, woa Mifferintf from broncho-! broncho-! pneumonia, adding that her doctor had said If her testimony was not secured se-cured at once, It might never be obtained. ob-tained. Mr Schenck said Mrs. Etderton was willing that the Jury be brought to her bedside, but suggested th.it this might be Inadvisable because of her condition. : "I would risk." said, "that the prosecution pros-ecution agree to have a deposition taken In the presence of attorneys I for both sides and read to the Jury Wednesday morning " "I have no oM'ci!ori to the deposition deposi-tion being taken," replied Asa Keyen, , deputy district attorney. "But 1 do object to its being read Wednesday mortlin. 1 understand this witness waa lii cdiirt Monday It may be that her '.lints is not so serious as counsel coun-sel apprehends. If ehe is able to come to taurt before the case goes to ; the Jury. 1 think she should lie pro- ; duced." ' I will nfree to that," rejoined Mr Schenck. "I WQUld infinitely prefer to have her testify before the Jury." Aujourr.imni was men taken uniii : toduy. AJjIB FOR M M !.ym: Prior to this K. S. llallner, a detective detec-tive employed by the defense, testl-I testl-I tied ho had driven the car used by ; Hutch on the night of August 5 to Long Lic:: h and back, and the mile- age registered was 43 and a fraction. ; I On the niht Burch used the car tho j register i bowed 4 4 miles. An alib! also was sought for Mr;; I Uadalynno Obenchaln, codefendant in, the case. Prosecution witnesses had i teetiried they saw her wutrhlnx Kri- nedy's house early In tho afternoon of August 5, Miss Elizabeth Archl- J ; halil, employed in a real estate offli e, testified she had Identified Mrs. Obenchaln Oben-chaln as having been In that offlr between one and two o'clock in thr' ! afternoon. William R Arnold of th--I same office, testified to the same eT-; : feet. ' Dl-iPOSITION TAKEX Attorneys for the prosecution and defense ..ent to Mrs. Elderton's home where, according to the former, they found her physical condition to be ! : less serious than they had understood i from the latter's statements in court. I The defense proceeded to take her I deposition, but Mr Keyes decllnod t- ! cros examine because, he declared, Iih believed her well enough to go to court. Mrs. Elderton Said her visit to court Monday had made her "nervous." Her u.rr t.tlmony, as given in the deposition, was that Burch had picked pick-ed up a dime she had dropped on j "The 1'ike." an amusement center. In Long Beach, the night Kennedy was sialn. She noticed a peculiarity on Burch's left hand, ehe added, an 1 later, for tho same reason. plciceU him out of a crowd on two occasion once when he was In the county Jail, and once when he was with the Jury visiting scenes connected with the slaying. |