Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-22
MOVIES PROVE THE UND0li4G OF kDAPPER ELL
Man Wanted In Boston Would Become Citizen Of japan
Officers En- Route to Orient TO
Try to Take Back Former
'.r New England Pastor
IBy Latest NALL


ROSTON.-JOhn J. Flynn and Judd
ewey. state detectives, have started
for Tokyo. Japan, to bring back John
Ellis, who has been arrested there for
kidnapping his daughter Olga, whose
custody as awarded to her mother
following II sensational divorce trial.
I'nls was located in Tokyo through
moving pictures
Mr.. Fills, who has been a stock
broker. telegraph operator and preach
er, disappeared soon after his wife
had been awarded the custody Of their
child.
Mrs. Ellis. refusing to be discour-
aged by the lack of interest Of the
police, got into touch with various
moving picture concerns and furnish
ed them with pictures Of her daugh-
ter and husband. These were shown
In all parts Of the world, and few
weeks ago there came from Japan
word that Ellis and Olga had been
seen in Tokyo.
Mrs. Ellis was told that kidnapping
was not an extraditable offense, but
through her lawyers she found that
technical charge Of perjury could be
lodged against her husband, and on
this charge Ellis was detained by the
Tokyo authorities.
Plaeed HE wife in Asylum.
It viii cost the state more than
$4,000 to return him to Massachusetts.
and when he gets back he probably
will escape serious punishment, as his
friends assert that he Will be easily
able to show that there is no basis
for the charge OF perjury.
Ellis, after his wife and he dis =
agreed, had her examined by physi-
clans and committed to state insane
institution, from which she was liber-
ated by an order of the court. Then
she sued for divorce and the trial was
full or sensational charges, IN which |
many other women figured.
Ellis, at the time OF the divorce suit,
was pastor OF church at Chicago, to |
which he was called when he was in
charge OF the brokerage Office Of
hotel at Breton Woods in the White |
mountains.
Ii has heen learned that since. the
Massachusetts detectives left for the
Orient Ellis has signified his willing |
ness and desire to become citizen
OF Japan and, provided he is granted /
citizenship papers there will be no
charge under which the New England |
authorities could call for his return |
to the United States.
Ellis spent some time in Honolulu |
in his spectacular flight with his little |
daughter details Of which were pub
Iished In The Star-Bulletin some
months ago.
Eihs Makes Statement
Ellis has made the following state
Aent to the newspapers of the Japan
ese city:
II came to Japan with my daughter,
Olga SO that we might live In peace
and happiness here, under the laws
Of this country. was not born I'M
the United States but in Canada, be-
ing taken to the United States as q
boy of 10 years. lived very unhap-i
ply with my wife in Massachusetts,
for seven or eight years. Just before
coming to Japan During those years
she attempted, or pretended, to kill
herself at least three times, assaulted
me twice, treated me with continued
malice, harassed me with furious jeal-
ousy, called my mother tagged 70l a
bad woman. in my presence, and or
dered her out Of our home; two or .
three times my wife herself left home.
taking away my daughter Olga, an
each time received my wife back for
the sake of our child and for the fam
lily honor. Against my will she went 8
into the employment of q nnoney-lend-
er who charged extortionate and He
gal rates of interest 1.-THE kind we cali
ioaii-sharks) My wife went from
cur home in Boston, Massachusetts,
to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Bal