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Show IMRS OBENCHAIN TRIED TO MAKE FELON TESTIFY FALSELY, CLAIM Letter? Teeming With Expressions of Affection Read During Murder Trial; Convict Says He Refused to Take Hand in i IU S ANGELES. Cnl.. Juno 24--Mrs liadalynne Obenchuin sought lo persuade per-suade Paul Roman, now a convict, to give false testimony for hor in her ur.-l trial for the murder of I BeltOIl Kennedy, lloman testified Friday In n r peoOnd trial He followed up his assertion byi identifying about a score of letter a having h on written by Mrs. 'in n-chain n-chain from bei II ft the Los Angeles county jail, to him In PolSoni peniU n-tiary. n-tiary. where he is serving a sentence for grand larceny, ihe letters teamed, team-ed, with expressions of affection and also referred to a ' story" Roman was lo tell. TEXT Ol MISSIVE The last missive, which Roman said handed to him in the. county jail while ho w;is thero last May, having been brought from prison to testify for . , Jf.,nJ,.nl in HIM IArtnUC - JLUI C II, tu-uciumauv ... Kennedy murder trial, read as follows Paul, My Sweetheart. "I love you. believe me. Don't you give me up now. If you do 1 will take you with mo. so help me, heaven ' There was no signature. Roman Maid the nandwrltlra was .Mrs. Obeiichum B and the note, with a $5 bill, was brought to him by u. jail 'trusty." The false testimony," Roman sale he wa-s to give, that he was to have overheard two men plotting to Kill Kennedv after trying to blackmail him Mrs. Obenchaln at her first trial testified that when Kennedy was shot In Beverly Glen on August 6, last, she aw "two ragged men" disappearing m a clump of hushes after two shots had been tired at Kennedy. Roman did not testify at the previous previ-ous trial regarding this angle, but was a witness lor the defense in both Burch s trials Hie testimony on these occasions was that a story of a thorn having been cut from Burch's kneo similar to a species found in the glen, was a "frame-up." This testimony was read from the transcript in the first Obenchaln trial. ARRESTED LAST JULY Roman testified that he was placed in jail here July 19, 1921- He said he had previously met Kennedy and had also becamo acquainted with Mrs. ob- I enchain, and saw me iatiei ooow t-he was arrested, last August. Later on they had conversations in the Jail, while he was on duty in tho medical clinic there, he declared, which resulted re-sulted in his "rehearsing" the story about the "ragged men." This story, he said, was repeated to Ralph R. Obenchaln, former husband of the defendant, who was ono of her attorneys at her first trial. Roman was taken from tho jail on December 23. last, to San Quentin penitentiary, pen-itentiary, whence ho was later transferred trans-ferred to Folsom He said that he saw Mrs. Obenchaln the day he was leaving leav-ing the Jail and told her he had 'changed his mind about testifying for her," and that she told him if he did not she would "make it hot for him." QUESTIONED BY JUROR Previously, he said, they had arranged ar-ranged to correspond and Mrs. Oben- bain was to refer to tho testimony that he said she wanted him to give as though it were a story he was writing. writ-ing. He said references to A were to mean Burch and "martyrs" Kennedy, Ken-nedy, while Mrs. obenchaln was to be the heroine." A juror asked Roman why he , , i i .. taollfirlner for Mrs. obenchain. 1 never did change my mind." he replied. "I had never intended to tes-tilv tes-tilv to a falsehood." He then lontlfied the letters which he said Mrs. Obenchain xrote hm having them mailed by friends of hers in Los Angeles. Most were signed ' Your Dream Girl," while others bore the signatures 'Madalynne" and Mies M Donner Conner," the last name In mg Mrs. obenchaln' maiden name. JSTRANGE TERMS USED In one of the letters referring to Kennrdy. Roman said the following passage read : "No girl in the world was ever more thoroughly disillusioned in a man than I was in him." T wonder what martyrs would think if they could read your letters to me and mine to you," was another passage "What a mess he made of things." In another letter appeared "You ask me if I have forgiven him . . He deceived me hideously hideous-ly and why? No matter what he did and was. I could hnvo forglen every-j thing if he bad not deceived me.". The writer referred to her first trial as "going to school" and said she was "nearly dead ' after passing two (ays On the witness stand. Laier she wrote; All this suffering was to find you, I my Paul. Y"ii will never disillusion j me will you? DISCONNECTED SENTENCES j (it her passages were; You seem to have given me the breath of Ufa and a slow returning desire de-sire to live." "I am lonely for you. dear Paul. Oh, hold me to your heart anil let me rest." "1 know you are destroying my letters let-ters for you know only too wcl what might happen "I want to reach out and touch you to make sure that you are my own. Maybe fate will reach out and seal j our iuvc. "Play I was a dream girl, and you a dream boy, wandering Into the land of dreams . . . Press me to your b irt, and kiss my tears away." There wore occasional sentences in tho lottcrs which apparently had no connection with what had gone before or what came after. One of these was: .Martyrs told you he had a platinum plati-num ring set with diamonds on his watch chain and expected to use It any-day. any-day. This is Important. Any day you are likely to be called." SHE WHISPERS DENIAL Mrs Obenchaln at her first trial testified Kennedy urged her to marry him, but she refused. Tho prosecution alleged that it was Kennedy who refused re-fused to wed and that for this reason Mrs. Obenchain Induced Burch to shoot him. Roman's direct examination had not been completed when court acfjouin-ed acfjouin-ed until next Monday morning. Mrs. Obenchaln followed Roman's testimony closely and at times held whispered conversations with her attorneys. at-torneys. 8he read each of the letters with the attorneys before they wero read In evidence. When the last was shown her. which Roman said he re-ceUod re-ceUod In jail here, she shook her head vigorously and turning to a friend sitting sit-ting near her. said In a loud whisper. "I never wrote that." |