Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 71, Hammond, Lake County, 13 September 1921 — Page 9

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BURGH IN MURDER

CONFESS

Evanston Man Admits Slaying Of J. Belton Kennedy In California

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rmrcRwTTONm new? servicei CHICAGO. Sept. 13. Arthur 0. Burch, of Ermnston ,111., has confessed toe. murder of J. Belton Kennedy, at Boa Amrelea, more than a month ago t da-ndler Sprague. a Bos Angeles cerway-pernvan, according to & dispatch received here today by the ChlEvening American. The dispatch came In the form of a signed story ty tragus which wu copyrighted by the Los Angeles Examiner. The story asserted Burch had admitted! killing Kennedy with the knowledge f Mrs. Madalynre Obcnchain. Burch and Mrs. Obfnchaln have beea undir arrest In ljot Angeles since a few days after the murder of Kennedy on Aug. 4, last. Kennedy was plain !n Beverly Glen, near Bos Angeles. He Is supposed to

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have been shot from ambush as he approached the cabin after a motor ride with Mrs. Obenchaln. According to Sprague's story the confession was made while the two conversed In the Ios Angeles county jail on August 14. ten davs after Kennedy's murder. He killed Kennedy. Sprague alleges Burch told him, because It was the only way to free Mrs. Obenchaln from Kennedy"s n'ftlign Influences. Huron. Sprague de

clared, regarded himself as a knighterrant rathr than a murderer and believed the killing justified. Utirch came west, he Is alleged by Sprjtrue to have said, to help Mrs. Obenchaln solve the problem Into which her relations with Kennedy had pluniffd her. She was unable to free herssif through her own efforts. "I shot him and I have never felt a single regret, a single twinge of conscience," Sprague quotas Burch as saying. Sprague says at the time Burch told his story to him he gave the prisoner a pledge not to reveal the secret until Burch had tdven him prrmlsslon, unless he should be forced to revsal It under oath. Sprague has been served with a subpoena by the I job Angele county 'grand jury and will b called as a witness today, according to the dispatch to the American. "He told me." Sprague says in a sworn statement, "that If I ever was forced to print It by a contingency such as has now arisen, he would deny It and would claim the entire story was a fabrication. , "Whether Burch told ths truth t: me when he made his original confession to the killing of Kennedy or whether he will be telling the truth when he makes a denial of thi confession is not for me to SSy. I do, however, solemnly affirm, under oath, that the facts are printed exactly as he told them to ms on the date I have mentioned."

CRUSADE TO CLEAN OUT

PARASITES

Chief of Police O'Donnell, of East Chicago, h.s started a regular roundup of thugs, thieves, burglars, robbers, holdup and confidence men that are said to be drifting into the Twin Cities from Chicago to the peril of the citizens of the Calumet district. Additional police have been employed and work has already commenced to rid the city of these underworld parasites.

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Last night the chief with a posse of police fcrought in eighteen dark fac-d suspicious characters and found they had netted the man who held up the place of J. H. Baker, 400G Caiey st., last Sunday. I. Porter, a negro of Indiana Harbor is the man, and this morning he made a comi'iite confession of the robbery to Chief O'Donnell. The police are still searching for the third man in the attempted robbery of Birmingham's restaurant and hotel at 3526 Parrltsh avenue last Sunday night. The man who was kilied was William Adams, living at 3524 Farrish avenue. The man who was wounded gave his name as Will Smith, of South Bend, and is now at the St. Margfi.ret'3 hospital, Hammond. The bartender, who did the shooting was Eugene Noble. Witnesses were James Campbell, Harry Vincent, Sam Brown. Martin Reese and Joseph Johnston, of Indiana Harbor. Two colored men and a brown girl, who held up and robbed Joe Bankey, a young westerner, of $500 and his gold

watch, were nabbed by Officer Zarkovlch yesterdaT. They were identified i

by Bankey as the ones who got his roll last Friday night. Today Chief O'Donnell said that he had given his force instructions to

pick up any man found prowling around the streets after the midnight hour

who could not be identified or give a

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getting rid of these rough customers

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soft drink establishment, today. Is free of the charge of murdering Charles Miller of Ijafayette. Stewart was released on motion on the prosecuting attorney, when police found no evidence implicating liliri in the shooting which followed a quarrel in his place.

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