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Show WOMAN RECALLS BURCK'S ERRAND I Came to Los Angeles to Assist As-sist Mrs. Obenchain in Trouble, Claim TvOS ANGELES May 2 TVRUmonv that Arthur C Burch, accused of luurdcring J. Belton Kennedy, canio I to Lom Angeles for the purpose of ' aKltlng "in any way he could" Mr. iMadalynno Obenchain co-defendant, ami Ki-nnedy s sweetheart, and n vigorous vig-orous attempt on the part of the defense de-fense to Impeaeh the prosecution's witness. C. 8. Sum mar, on cross-examination, were the outstanding features fea-tures of Burch'H trial Mondav. TAIJCED on TRAIN Mrs J. M Warren testified that she met Burch on the train several days before Kennedy wma xhot, ami that Burch told her ho was on hl.s ' way to help "In any way he rould " a very good friend of his school days who was In trouble, that he did not know what it would lead to and had flannel on packing a revolver In hln BUitcaao, but later had decided not to do so. thai his friend was going to marry a man hi Loa Angeles, and ' while It would bo hard for him to ulvi' her un ho k,.mI.i a M summnr swore that on the niKrht I Kennedy was killed. Purch was In a j roadster standing on the Santa Mon- j lea canyon road, and that he was blinded by the HkIh.-. on Burch's car ; and compelled to stop. Summ ir fixed the time at about an hour after Other testimony showed Kennedy was ' slain It was upon Summar s testimony testi-mony a given In Burch's iormer trial i uriil that ot .Mr.-, obenchain, in boh ; of which jur:. ; disagreed, that the prosecution based its argument that Burch went to the canyon to dispose of tin- sholKtin with which it was charged he killed Kennedy. Time and again attorneys for the defense read from transcripts. portions por-tions of Sunimar's testimony as given on the former triales in an attempt to show discrepancies. Ho was under- going cross-examination when court adjourned I RA ns r. u BIiAYING. Other witnesses were Otis Wiles, a newspaper reporter, and Thomas Bevanty, a resident of Beverly Glon. who told of finding two discharged shotgun shells near the scene of the slaying Wiles also told of finding automobile tracks on a side road nearby R. H Johnston, a deputy shgri ff. told of going to Kennedy's cottage lii response to a call from police officers of Beverly Hills, who first recched word of the shooting. He told of I finding the body on the steps leading1 up to the cottage with a loaded re-"i volver nearby, and of the gunshot Wound In the head A wedding ring was on Kennedy's key chain he said. 1 Burch obtained $100 from a local I bank the n,. ruing following the shoot-' Ing according to the testimony of j Fred W. Cowlin. its cashier. " The money was glen to Burch when Dora j M Burch of Evanston. Ills . his mother, honored a draft drawn on her ' for that amount, owlln said. |