Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-11
DECLINES.
TO HOLD.
|0RM|ST0N.
Chicago Chief Refuses
Request to Arrest the
Radio Man.
LATTER IN HIDING
Experts to Fight All
Efforts to Extradite
Him to California.

CHICAGO, Dee. 1l.-Chicf of Po-
lice Morgan A. Collins today flatly
turned down an opportunity to arrest
Kenneth G. Ormiston, fugitive
radio operator from los Angeles.
Sergeant Harry Donnclly, who ap
pretended Ormiston in Harrisburg,
Pa, and returned him to a hiding
place in Chicago appeared before his
chief this afternoon with this re-
port:
81 have Ormiston in custody and
can produce him any time you say
the word.
- do not want Ormiston and
would not have him around if he
were standing in my office,' Collins
replicd-and the chief did not repri
mand Donnelly for his leave of alb
senec during which time he found
Ormiston.
Collins has been asked by Los An
gclcs authorities to arrest Ormiston
for cxtradition to California, where
he is wanted for important testi
mony in the ease of Aimee Semple
Mcpherson, the evangelist who dis
appeared last spring and then reap
pearcd with a story of captivity in
Mexico. The state of California
claims that during her absence she
lived with Ormiston in Carmcl-By-
thcSca and it IS IN this connection
that Ormiston is wanted.
Ormiston will surrender to auth.
critics upon the receipt of proper
warrant for his arrest but he will
fight cxtradition to the Pacific
coast, the United Press learned to-
day from Ormiston S attorney, Ed
ward II. S. Martin.
Can Produce Man
~ can produce Ormiston ap-
pcarancc here at one hour s notice.,
Martin told the United Press in one
of the first interviews he has grant
ed since he became connected with
the ease.
And if the proper warrant is
served upon me, I will produce my
client.
Ormiston, however, will positive
ly deny any completely whatsoever
in the Aimee Scmple Mcpherson
case in Los Angeles and he will fight
cxtradition to that city
Martin answered charges that
Ormston had been promised legal
aid if he appeared as witness
against Aimee Mcpherson and stat
ed that Ormston had surrendered
of his own free will and accord.
'But the showdown must come
here Martin said Il He will not
90 any further west than Chicago -
by United Press Leased Wire
WASHINGTON, Dec. II. - Dis
trict Attorney Asa Keycs of Los An
gclcs today wired Chief of Police
Collins of Chicago to arrest Kenneth
G. Ormiston, former Angelus temple
radio operator, pending cxtradition
proceedings.
He said the Ormiston case was a
sidelinc with him at present, as he
has other business in the east.
Keyes planned to leave at noon
for Philadelphia.
by United Press Leased Wire
LOS ANGELES, Dec. IL. - Ben
Cohn, chief of Los Angeles dctcc-
tives, cmphatically denied today
that the mueh-publicized "black
goggles in the Aimee Semple Me
Phcrson ease had been found in Ken
meth G. Ormiston s blue coupe which
was seized in Oakland early this
week and brought here for evidence.
81 have never seen any black
goggles in connection with this auto
mobile or its contents,' the inves-
tigator said.
IF there were any goggles in the
machine ! have never seen them,''
Cohn said. "A newspaperman tol(
me he had found them and was
sending them to this office, but
they have never arrived
Cohn intimated that il the goggles
existed they had been stolen from
the Ormiston coupe before the ma.
chine was seized by Los Angeles
officers.
Cohn had before him today all of
the articles found in the automobile.
They included n pair of shoes, be-
Iicved to have belonged to Ormiston, |
n portable typewriter, portable
radio set, n man s toilet ease, and q |
large gray ovcrcoat. Inspection of
the overcoat disclosed six red hairs, |
it is claimed.
Finger prints were taken from all |
the articles found in the machine.