Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-09

OrmiSton, fugitive radlO man III the
Aimee Semple Mcpherson case, in GUS
tody by tomorrow morning.
i HALL OF JUSTICE, LOS ANGELES,
Oct. S.-(AP)-While detectives sour
ried about Los Angeles and vicinity
following "hot tips" that Kenneth q.
Ormiston missing radio operator in the
Mcpherson case, was in hiding near
here. Omissions statement of several
months ago went into court records at
the preliminary hearing, of Mrs. Aimee
Semple Mcpherson on charges OF crlml-
nal conspiracy.
The statement seemingly CONTRADICT
ed in several instances by evidence re-
Gently brought to light came by way
of the lips of Joe Taylor of the Los
Angeles police force.
Taylor testified to questioning Or
miston while the sea off Santa Monica
was being dragged and searched, for
the body of the Angelus Temple leader,
Mrs. Mcpherson, then believed drowned.
Later the evangelist turned up at
Douglas, Arizona, telling story OF
having been kidnapped.
Ormiston, the detectives say, gave
dates and places to fix his various
movements up and down the coast,
sometimes under his own name, some
times under an alias.
In the statement he denied any con-
nection with Mrs. McPherson's disap-
pearance or any recent meetings with
her.
The prosecution, on the other hand,
contends that Ormiston and Mrs. Nc
Pherson spent some time following May
IS, when she dropped from sight, in
cottage at Carmel, Calf.
oliver Allstorm, who said he was a
writer and knew Mrs. Mcpherson, who
had employed him to write a story en-
titled "Kidnapers," denied he had made
demands for money upon Roland Rich
Woolley, the ev n el i S t's personal
counsel or to Mrs: Mcpherson herself.
Gilbert asked Allstorm if he had not
gone to Woolleys office and was told
that he was a blackmailer and to get
out.
Allstrom thundered negative, and
added:
Hes an Infamous liar!
Gilbert appealed to the court and
| Allstorm repeated his remark, where
upon the court threatened him with
contempt if he injected any more i'm
proper language with his answers.
1t developed during the cross exam
ination that Allstorm had given Wool
ley an opportunity to buy the ten chap
ter story he had written about the
kidnapping after the evangelist refused
it. When Woolley declined to buy it,
Allstorm said he sold it.
4 Judge Blake had to threaten the wit
ness to make him tell to whom he
sold it.
! He named several persons and firms
including the Rev. Bob Shuler of Los
Angeles and a magazine at Girard
Kansas.
Allstorm said the purpose of the
book was to attack bootleggers, white
slavers, motion pictures and late1
newspapers.
I, But" said Allstorm, "Woolley advis
ed against attacking the newspapers
and we dropped that"
Allstorm said several friends advis
ed him to go to the district attorne!
to tell his temple experiences. Among
the friends, he said, was Bob Shuler
AllSIOTm WAS WOuIu UP AlAC
, clock" the court said, and it took thu
combined efforts of Judge Blake ant
, three prosecutors to stop him each tim'
; he star Led.
Allstorm was shown a tan colore'
brief case with the letters A. S. M. ol
it, but he said it was rot the one h
had seen at the Mcpherson home. TIL
other case, he testified, had Mrs. Nc
Phersons full name on it.
Allstorm fought for five minutes t
keep from telling where he was living
I offering to inform Gilbert or the cour
I in private, but Judge Blake compelle
! him to answer the question.
! Allstorm was excused, and John A
! Keils, night clerk at the Hotel Clar
{ in Los Angeles, was called.
! Keils said he was on duty the nigh
Of May IA, and Identified page frot
! the hotel register. He said the ma
! whose name appeared on the top linz
( but which was not mentioned in cour
I arrived at the hotel on May IA an
: checked out May 49,
( Tt was understood the name on tn
& register was one used by Ormiston o
several occasions
I Ray L. Steele, cashier at the Clar
{ hotel identified a sheet on which h
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