The evening world. Newspaper, July 22, 1922, Page 9

THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1922. 9 Sold Love Letters~Gavicts Hang Him ii E i Betrayal of the Confidence of Madalynne Obenchain Has Made Paul Roman an Outcast Among Criminals and Marked // Him for the Scorn of All es Who Recognize His Face. ia . rae , Paul Roman has been voted an unft assoctate for other convicts in a Oalifornia prison. He is scorned in the courts. He is in danger even when escorted on the streets by an officer of the law, And alt because he made love to a won comct her of murder lets hanged him in ef — ® an and sold her love letters to those who woutit emphasize their lu gy in the prison. The hing for Roman, the con- bite appears to tndorse Penitentiary opinion of Roman and he ts catted the California “Judas.” Roman's victim was Madahmne Obechain, accused of kitting J. Belton Kennedy, whose trials in the courts have been followed by milliona of mewspaper readers Rana pies. we into ny, Finally By Ruth Snyder. ree er romanc Copyright, 1992 (New York Fevening World) ¥ Kk 19 lecides to by Prews 1 Ralph. Kor two years. the ! when her love fi K nevt 1 ve strong, and the ed. Madalynn now he \ The sn has been Intre ' unravelled; but the sinister that the sy loved court that one night to hisses and cut-cu wht visiting Ken He is listed as Pan! Roman, aot i woods of fortune, adve er ON dinary oriously shot wn, Chr wems to point Bure and and literary dilettante. He is a pri oner of the St se Of glary char him. But th kill Kennedy charge fades nee under t ar Ait a love the glaring he nwhieh ands ut the be are turned agains Paul Roman has t and contiden: The seer in Los Ang pants are on Mrs 3 of c i SU th being @ conspirator wit nani ts te fl ) Jn the murder, Ro rObenchain and a ROC Vales ct for a tl the abl D (tot figure save a minor turned from Madaly A) r the defense of Burch, on Obenchain. Pan! R the “Judag Whose behalf Roman testined, He de- ad been present when [ Iscartot’’ of Califorr has been called—ts now the cynosure of every eye. These charges stand against him: He has accepted money while tn prison from a womar then used that money and the Heges It brought him to work against her He bas written her the most ardent love letters, s¢ as he frankly ‘ 4 rr : 5 ; ‘ N 3 der just what would have haps admits, to commit her tn writing to “ f ; iy f a ; pened if the bars between us had the most dam: nents rela- Vanished? At that time I would ¢ tive to h death of J turned these He has admitted } assed, but now— well, Lam sure you are thinking what Jam thinking." Later, ring to himaelf, “Hoy am ames hawt eta Roman sad, “Rest assured that mith nee wie in pig ta eth right » you have reached the under oath at the trial Za your rainbow, Madalynne Obenchain, her clear, 2 ‘a> : ; — { "Sur mina rae wales: Sti, " rmind: please trust me of her many disillusions, stares matter what you do or «ko when you are xh with all this, please keep with ine, Perhaps, some ven You grow tired of every- thing, [ will meet you, and then— “Heart of my heart, there are numerous kinds of loves; but for the I ke my love for you—a ad no beginning and never die—ah, dear- est mine, for a promise of a love like that L could endure most any- thing. “T would give all the world of gladness just to be able to grasp you !n my arms and press you pounding heart, and (hug you—and—and way from all this! ‘The niler of my days T would reetting the past and you the happtest, erst- ind misunderstood, bie-Htt rl in this wide and wicked universe.”? In one of Mra, Obenchain's letters to Roman she asks: WII] you please answer this ques- tion—are my letters to you destroyed” After the one experience I had with letters T am mre you will forgive my asking you." Mrs. Obenchain refers to the oor raspondence which she had with Ken- nedy. Her ardent love letters to him were brought before the court's atten “I know you will be returned hare some time in February. Oh, tlon n few montha previous. ¢ I could only write as I would And Paul Roman ts turning State's Courtenay talk to you eyidence—-haa brought upon himeelf BURG = “Your letter was full of ques- th condemnation of his cell com tions, too, dear Paul. I wish you pantons, He has been hung In effigy could look deep into my eyes for by his fellow prisoners. At Mberty all the answers. ¢ for the time being, he ts virtually « ne prisoner plotted with another to linger tenderty on my throat: yet “Tow good this day has been to. prisoner. Detectives have been as- frame testimony against Burch. your eyes always ask a question me! signed to guard him against the fury Now Roman has appeared to turn as I feel your lips about to toucli “Yes, I am thinking, thinking of the mob, State's evidenoe, He feels, as he ad- mine—why, I wonder? If I had had=—of everythivg-—others—vos Outside the court room window mits, that Mrs. Obenchatn had merely not known you for eternities, I Paul, please help me to be kind may be seen the eager crowds pross- firted with him while she was in could not write this to you.” to do all I should do—but when ine madly against the doors, press- prison in order to use him as the Paul Roman listens stoically while | have paid in full—let me feel the ng, pressing nearer and nearer in means for establishing en allbi which the letters are being read. Tho promise of the rainbow order to rush upon the “turn-coat”’ deep-seated malice at Paul Romen as would clear her of the murder crowd hisses and sneers, “Tam willing to die (and Tam 4 he emerges from the court room her letters to him and his letters to charge. So critical 1s the state of opinion not speaking lightly) if only one The State has been placed in a her are read for the greedy court And Roman stands before the “gainst him that the oourt authorities carthly dream can be realized. If ‘ilemma—to either grant \ convicted crowd to crow over. crowd a broken man, are much puszled as to what to d the dream consists of yeare—or a burglar his freedom before he has Mrs, Obenchain |s a big woman— Hia fellow prisoners scorn him; the with him when he is to be retume’ = month--or even an hour—I will even served the minimum of his sen- five feet eight. Her eyes, deeply crowd hisses him; the convicts of to Folsom Prison, where he was sent take !t—and Ivo for that now tence, or Invite his death tn return fringed with black lashes, are her ther prisons refuse to associate with not many months ago for burglary Tam fighting—and waiting for his efforts in behalf of the prose- main attraction. Her hands and feet Iocal fails furtously object. Com- but mayte I will find my way into cution. It may be that the Btate wil! are large and awkward. Her lips are Honor among thieves?’ munications have come to Los Angeles darkness-—-who knows what the have to farm Roman out to some full-lpped and white, Her skin has Roman dare not walk the streets from outside sources indicating that outcome will be? other institution, at a distance from paled during her months of confine- and must remain tn seclusion in a for the State to return him to either “Goodnight-—T hesitate in saying Callfornia, in the hope that the prej- ment. wal el because of the hatred uf of the State's two penal tnatitutions {t—I want to linger now as I did udice neainst him will not be #o tn. Madalynne ts facing trial for the 6 populace for him. would be to invite his murder at tho the night the bars were between tense there. pecond time for tho murder of her He has betrayed a woman, hands of the enraged tnmates is For awhile the ourtain must be sweetheart, J. Belton Kennedy, ‘Tt listen! Mrs, Obenchain's letters to Another letter Is being read “T am yours, rung down. Fate and Justice must testimony of the witnesses recalls the him being read: “Tam at the end of the rainbow ‘MADALYNNE." work out the final outcome of this story. “My beloved: It is night again with you, Hetening to the sad Saath ¢ sitmtion The pretty Northwest University jarkness brings you closer. aweet muste of the waves Baines t for Puul Roman, burglar con- etudent Is courted during her sch Arhess sometimes soothes you are holding me tenderly, safe Yes, the night you sald good viet who pennet glowing love letters days by Ralph Obenchain, a quiet 5 sometimes pains. ly from all harm yt foreve 1ain to w celebrated divoreee and suspected stoady-going man and a lover with a = ems hungry for “Do you remember one day down lelibly stamped in memory, As murderess and then betrayed her, F} ‘dow-burning candie love. J, Be Modalynne strength, staire I saw you talking with « T look buck to that moment of all there remains nothing but the flery, ‘Kennedy, dashing and magnet! el In all my dreams I have ni little lady—at first you did n moments, as I now minutely re- Intense hatred of his fellow sweeps her off her foet with his high- OBENCHAIN let my Ips touch yours bea me. Why did yon draw you view the picture of and) land’ coantermen: who” believe teas power dynam'¢ passion. But family 1 afr nis aw er v esontinlly @bjections keep their love affair from i) ” J . ‘ “9 ~ er ae me ee ae ee «nn ee etn +