Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Madalynne Obenchain was tried and acquitted for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy. Her maiden name was Madalynne Donna Connor, until she married Ralph Obenchain in 1919. She divorced Ralph shortly after marriage but kept the last name Obenchain. This photograph appears with the article, “MRS. OBENCHAIN THREATENS SUIT: Cleared in Jail Break Plot, She Accuses Carlton; Clara Phillips’s Identity is Admitted by Carson; Companion Given $10,000 to Fight Extradition Quizzed in Escape of Hammer Killer,” Los Angeles Times, 16 May 1923: II1. Text from negative sleeve: Obenchain, Madalynne. [Stamped:] Oberchain [sic], Madeline. Handwritten on negative: Madalynn Obenchain. Text from newspaper caption: Madalynne Obenchain and Her Attorney, W.B. Beirne. [Los Angeles Times, 16 May 1923: II1]
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6824 ark:/21198/zz002cx3x5
Language
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Subject
Homicides--California--Los Angeles Obenchain, Madalynne b. 1893 Beirne, William Bryan, 1890-1980
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