Evening star., 1926-12-10
0RM|STON REFUSES
To DISCUSS AIMEE
Would Still Be Free if He Had
Stayed on Broadway,
Radio Man Says.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 10-Kenneth
G.. Ormiston, elusive radio operator
of Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, be
lieves he never would have been
found If he had stayed on Broadway
II roamed the gay White Way for
months this Summer and laughed to
see my picture in the paper" he told
a reporter for the Chicago Herald and
Examiner, who interviewed him at
Harrisburg, Pa.
I'm spite of my limp no one recog
niZed me. My only disguise was a
little sandy moustache,' a copyright
ed story quoted him as saying.
Ormiston talked on many subjects
during an automobile trip "Some
where in Pennsylvania''-th first leg
of his journey to Chicago in company
of detectives and newspaper men-but
he declined to answer any question
concerning Aimee Semple Mcpherson
Los Angeles evangelist, with whom
his name has been linked by West
Coast authorities.
Father Promises Aid.
The finding of the radio man, who
had lived in Harrisburg several
months under the name of Fred
Lininger," unlooSed a flood of new
statements from persons interested in
the Mcpherson kidnapping case, in
Guiding a declaration by Oriliston' s
father, w. c. Ormiston, that ne was
coming to the aid of his son.
i've stayed out of this case for six
months, but now I'm in it." the elder
Ormiston said in San Francisco. Il
don't want them planting any more
evidence on Kenneth" He expressed
faith that his son had not lied, "yet
If he has he has lied like a man."
From Mrs Mcpherson herself came
the statement that ''the arrest of
Kenneth Ormiston means nothing
whatever to me. l have repeated,
endlessly, that I know nothing of Or
miston or his whereabouts, either be-
fore or since 1 was kidnapped"
Hair Found i'm Auto.
Coincidentally, investigators from
the office of District Attorney Asa
Keyes of Los Angeles believed they
had uncovered a new clue when they
searched an automobile, ownership OF
which has been traced to Ormiston,
in a garage at Oakland, Calf. Two
short strands of hair, which Ben
Cohen, a detective from Keyes of
flee said resembled in color and tex
ture the hair of Mrs. Mcpherson,
were found on the back seat.
Ormiston'S father, who said he
watched the search, maintained that
nothing was found while he was look
ing on. "But afterwards, when /
wasn't looking, they said they had
found q hairpin and a pendant from
necklace"
Ormiston, accompanied by Charles
Ellwood and Harry Donnelly, Chicago
detectives, left Harrisburg yesterday
in an automobile. Although tickets
to Chicago were purchased and there
were reports that the party had
boarded a train, the Herald and Elk
aminer said the first part Of the jour
ney was made by automobile. The
time of arrival here was uncertain.
Keyes Ready to Fight.
Intimation that Ormiston would
flght extradition to California when
he arrives here were met by state
ments from District Attorney keyes,
who is in Washington, that he would
battle to send the radio man to the
Coast Ormiston is charged with con-
spiracy to defeat justice.
Chief of Police Morgan Collins of
Chicago said he had no adequate eX-
panation as to why Sergt DOnnelly,
should he guarding Ormiston in the
hegira from Harrisburg.
II gave Sergt. Donnefly permission
to work on the case, but | thought
he was going to stay in Chicago
the chief said.
Previously a statement had come
from Chief of Police Joseph Thomp-
son of Harrisburg that "Ormiston
was not under arrest" in eXplana-
tion of why the case was not handled
directly through the police station.
Harrisburg authorities said that a
search of Ormiston's trunk revealed
correspondence indicating that the
radio operator had a wife in Brazil.
People of China, the home of tea
production of the world, still cling to
old methods of tea drinking and re-
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