Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-16
DOUGLAS DAILY DISPATCH FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 16 1926

O11S AGAO1A N4O1G1N11NO,
The driver of the car proceeded to die
tate a message, which, Bland saws. was
practically identical with the one sent.
1 After the boy finished writing at
the strangers dictation, the man took
the blank and read it. He made sew
eral corrections in it and then hesitat-
ed a moment as if in deep thought.
"'Give me another blank the man
said to me- Bland declared. 'I gave
him another blank. He took a pencil.
placed the blanks over his knee and
wrote the message. When he finish
ed writing, he started the car and
drove me to the front of the Hippo-H
drome theatre on Twelfth street where
he told me to get out and take the
message back to the office. He gave
me so cents for the wire and a 25-cent
tip
/ The original message written by him.
at the strangers dictation was destroy
ed by the driver of the car, Bland
said.
During the conversation the man
told me he was government agent
and knew all about the Mcpherson
case. He said he did not want to get
out of the car and go into the office
to send his wire because he was a Sc
cret service man and did not want to-
take a chance to have anyone know
him." the boy declared
"That fellow acted like he was
drunk, but L did not smell liquor on
his breath" Bland told the Times.
when l got back to the office, / gave
the message to ]. A. Quinn, night man
at the office, and told him thought
the guy was crazy and forgot, all
about it,"
Both Bland and Frazier said the
automobile driven by the mysterious
writed was closed model Both boys
said they thought it was a ChrysIer
and blue in color
The night operator had some diff
Guilty in making out the signature on
the telegram, the Times learned in the
north. The first two letters looked
like DR.. to Quinn, but they easily could
have been Or, he said. "Murten' was
what he made out the last letters to
read but the signature was so badly
scribbled that the letters might have
been Mission"
The address placed on the telegram
also was not legible. The best the op-
orator could make out was 1852 or
1857 Webster. street or 1852 or 1857
Madison street. The first address
checked by the Times was a retail
store The others were wrong ad-
dresses The sender gave his tele-
phone number as Lakeside 2796. This
number has been listed to w. E. Van
Wyck, Franklin Court apartments,
Oakland, and was disconnected last
October.
The known facts about Ormiston's
recent movements took on new i'm
Z portance following discovery of the
Oakland telegram, Officials admitted to
the Times o,
i OrmiStOnS Movements.
Investigations made aftea the re-
ported drowning of the woman evange-
a Chrysler coupe in Seattle March Is.
paying for it in cash. Fifteen hundred
dollars of the purchase price was said
by him to have been sent him from
Venice, by telegraph, by his brother,
James Wallace. NO such person was
disclosed blythe investigation. James
Wallace, the authorities were told, was
/ Mrs. MCPHERSON s half-brother, long
dead.
| May Ormiston was in Los Angeles.
! He was seen around the Angelus tenn
pie. He spent Sunday at the temple
and told friends he was leaving the
city the next day. He appeared at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
G. Ormiston, 1880 California street.
San Francisco, May IL. The next day
he left avowedly for Seattle. Check
there failed to show his arrival. He
never called for his mail accumulated
there since March Is.
| Mrs. Mcpherson disappeared May IS,
last.
/, The telegram now under investiga-
! tion was sent from Oakland May 21.
I May 25, Ormiston wired the automo-
! bile agency in Seattle asking confirm
| alton of sale to him of the automobile
| to enable him to obtain California
/ license. He sent the telegram from
! a telegraph office in San Francisco,
where he awaited the return. Some
time subsequent to this date he was
| given California license.
May 26, after much publicity in San
Francisco and Los Angeles papers,
Ormiston appeared in the Highway ga
rage at Salinas, 100 miles from San
Francisco, and left his car with in
structions that it be washed and serv-
iced. He talked with Louis (Happy)
Manville, night man, and told him he
would be back in three days.
The next day, May 81, he appeared
in Los Angeles. He communicated
with Mother Kennedy and went to
the beach, where searching parties and
divers were trying to locate the miss
ing pastors body.
Ormiston denied all knowledge of
the case. He posed for photographs
and said the last time he was in Los
Angeles was May 8.