The Barre Daily Times

Is Alleged in Connection With the Obenchain Trial in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, Cal., March 21.--The district attorney's office has begun an investigation of the jury disagreement in the case of Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain, charged with the murder of her sweetheart, J. Belton Kennedy.

Three of the jurors had reported that three others, who had voted for acquittal, while nine favored conviction, had refused to listen to any arguments in the jury room.

In this connection it was announced that a prominent Los Angeles minister would be summoned to the district attorney's office to-day to tell what he might know of a report that he had conversations with one of the women on the jury and had offered prayers for her guidance.

The same woman was said to have met and talked with Ralph R. Obenchain, former husband and present counsel for the defendant, in the course of the trial.

It was further reported that the same woman had expressed the belief that "Burch was guilty but Mrs. Obenchain was not."

Whether the second trials of Mrs. Obenchain and Arthur C. Burch, who was also indicted for the murder of Kennedy, would be held jointly or separately was expected to be decided in the superior court here to-day.