Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-06


priest named Father Gay at Salinas,
who drove him about bit there.
| Gilbert demanded that the prosecu-
tion produce transcripts of statements
taken at Monterey and a sheaf of them
dence as exhibits.
state objects
/ Gilbert asked Ryan if Keyes had
conceived the idea o. Carmel that Mrs.
Mcpherson had gone away to have an
abortion performed.
| vigorous objection came from the
prosecution end of the table and Gill
ibert was forced to reframe it.
He then asked Ryan if he had not
questioned Ralph Swanson. grocery
hoy, as to how the woman at the Bene-
dict cottage looked on the first day he
saw her, and how she later appeared.
Another objection was sustained and
, Gilbert passed it up.
I Gilbert branched off again to demand
when Ryan had made up his mind that
the KIDNAPPING story was false. A flood
tof objections followed and Attorney
Gilbert rose angrily to defend his eff
fort to get the. mental condition" of
the witness.
| Deputy District Attorney Dennison,
pointing his finger at the defendants.
shouted;
! your honor, Minnie Kennedy and
Aimee Semple Mcpherson went before
the grand jury and asked that body to
proceed against the kidnapers What
Edifferenee does it make what Joe Ryan
/ though about the story.
Ryan's Convictions
Ryan declared that he became con-
WINGED after the grocery slips found at
the Carmel cottage were presented to
! the grand jury at second hearing that
Mrs Mcpherson was a fake and hy-
lpocrite."
+, Ryan left the stand for a few min
! utss while Dora Morris, stenographer,
was called She identified transcript
Iof statement by Kenneth G. Ormis-
iton at Ocean Park, May 81, and it was
lplaced in evidence as an exhibit with
out being read.
Ryan resumed the stand and Gilbert
continued his grilling. After few
questions more regarding his frame of
mind when he returned from Douglas,
Ryan was excused.
MURCHISON TESTIFIES
A. b. MurchisOn, Douglas, Ariz.,
police sergeant, the next witness,
i said he was familiar with the conn
try surrounding Aqua Prieta,
! across the border from Douglas.
He said he knew Mrs. Mcpherson,
having seen, her first ON the morn
ing of June 23.
! The pOlice officer told of an ac-
| NJ. nnp r1ES
| Officers by Mrs. Mcpherson, Of be-
! ing held in the shack. The con-
versatiOn was at the Calumet hos
| pitaI. He said he and other Off
GERS, including the chief of police
| of Aqua Prieta, went in search of
the shack and found wOman's
! footprints near the slaughter house.
They followed the tracks to
/ guard house about three miles be-
! low the border, where they came to
an end. They, cOuII not pick them
up again, though they searched the
vicinity thoroughly. MurchisOn
said.
! The policeman said when they re-
turned to Douglas, Mrs. McPhersOn
denied she had been ON any road
and had not seen any while cross
/ ing the desert. MurchisOn then said
| he and the others took one of MIS-.
! McPherSOn's shoes and returned TO
the point where the tracks were
! found. comparison was made at
! two points. one at the slaughter
house. near the border, and the
Othe.f where the trail ended mt the
guard house three miles away. He
said a print was made in the earth
| next to the actual print and they
| tailed. MurchisOn said Mrs. Me-
Phcrson described the shack in
which she claimed she was held.
| Attorney Gilbert objected AND
| Judge Blake decided adjournment
! was in order. Court then adjourned
until Thursday morning at 10
| o'clock.
! It was decided not to hold court to-
morrow after Attorney Gilbert sald ne
lhad important engagements elsewhere,
and no objections came from the rest
lof the lawyers.
] "What SAID stands" declared Mrs.
Kennedy tonight in answer to the
threat made yesterday by Thomas
Scott Melville, doorman at the Clark
! hotel and a witness for the state, that
he would sue her if she did not re-
tract the charge she is said 20 have
made that he was "a tool in gi-
gantic plot to wreck Angelus Temple.
Melville had testified that he saw
Mrs. Mcpherson in the hotel the morn
ing of May 18, the day on which she
disappeared.
His testimony was similar to that
| of walter B. Lambert, who told OF
seeing the evangelist enter the hote4
followed by man identified as Or
miston. The hotel register later
showed that Ormiston was guest OF
! the hotel until shortly after room on
/ May 49, Lambert yesterday demanded
! an apology over the radio by Mrs
/ Pherson for alleged slanderous re-
marks about him and members or mis-
family. Tonight the evangelist de-
MED that she had slandered Lambert
''He is mistaken she said. II be-
lieve / merely mentioned his name a.
one of the witnesses. Every word !
have uttered about my preliminary
! hearing has been taken Gown II
shorthand and is preserved. The per-
son who carried the tale to Mr.. MeE-
| willie is mistaken [ have never made