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Show I! NEW TRIAL FOR I MRS. OBENCHAIN Jury Is Dismissed After Standing 9 to 3 for Conviction LOS AXGELEP, March 2o Mrs. u.i.lalynne Obonchaln, charged with the murder of her woethenrt. J. Bolton Bol-ton Kennedy, must KO to trial ft second sec-ond lime. The Jury In her first tn.il sras discharged Sunday nigh; by Judge Sidney N. Reeve upon reporting report-ing that It had been unable to agree after being out netrly f6 hours, of whlrh about 24 were spent In actual deliberation. It took five ballots and stood nine to three for conviction on each, according to one oi the lurors Two of the women members oi"i tor conviction, the third for acquittal, this juror said. F U l WHITE oh N Mrs. Obenchain, her face white and drawn, came into court at 7.4.r o'clock in response to a summons from the judge, who previously, had conferred with her senior cotinsi I m l dtBjUty attorney. Asa Keyes. immediately imme-diately afterward the jury filed in and the juOR lked Foreman Frank W. Crockett, a retired lawyer of I'as-fldena, I'as-fldena, how the vote stood. We have stood nine to three from the first ballot." the foreman replied Jutlgre Ro've then asked a h of the 12 if they thought there was any possibility of reaching a verdict. Each replied in the negative Thereupon the Judge pointed their formal discharge. dis-charge. The case was -reset for next Tuesday Tues-day when. Mr Keyes announced, motion mo-tion for the setting of a new trial date will be made. DO MM.s TO COMMENT. Mrs. Obenchain was returned to the woman's department of the county I y jail. She declined to comment upon the result while in the court room. Her attorneys said she made no statement state-ment to them Sho had expressed herself as confident of an acquittal, but friends who visited her in the Jail Sunday said nhe had resigned herself her-self to a disagreement. Some members of the jury said the only division was on th question ot Kuilt or lnnocenco. They did not reach the question of degree of guilt. Other members were uncommunicative, uncommunica-tive, one throwing aside a newspaper reporter who asked for a statement. Bl EICB KEEPS si I I N 1 The trial was begun Feb 6 last, but was delayed several times l.y illness ill-ness of Jurors and witnesses, which necessitated adjournments ranging from one to three duys. Mrs. ib-n-chain on the witness stand denied the state's assertion she conspired with Arthur C. Burch to slay Kennedy, Burch WM called to the stand by the prosecution and questioned concerning con-cerning his actions prior ui tlv I edy. He replied ho would not answer unless the indictment against him was dismissed. His second trial for March 27 next, the first hearing resulting in a disagreement. |