| Show SAYS Hf HE AIM AIMEE I Ag HOTEL Merchant Testifies Evangelist Evangelist Evan- Evan gelist Ormiston Were There at Same Time Time 1 ATTORNEYS BATTLE Doorman's T Testimony f Brings On Spirited Clash of Factions J I t HALL OF JUSTICE Los Ang Angeles les Oct 1 AP Thomas AP-Thomas J Thomas Scott Melville Mel Mel- yule ville doorman at th the Hotel Clark In inos Los os Angeles and according to his testimony a baptized member of the Angelus temple testified In the preliminary pre pre- hearing of oC Almee Aimee Semple McPherson here today that he saw the evangelist at the hotel at 10 o'clock clock on the morning of the day disappeared at Oc ean Ocean Park f f I Melville was positive in m his identification iden Iden- and a severe ex cross failed to shake it though it precipitated numerous bitter clashes lashes between counsel t Walter B. B Lambert a it shop shop proprietor testified yesterday he had seen the evangelist at t the tue hotel at about the same time on May 18 Lambert said he saw a aman aman aman man whom Ie Te J Identified by a photograph photograph photograph photo photo- graph as Kenneth G. G Ormiston former former former for for- mer Angelus temple radio operator opera opera- opera opera- tor or an and a in hl the con- con pirAcy rearing hearing near the entrance to tto the hotel botel at approximately the lame anie ame time he saw Mrs 1 teon on on Ormiston considered a a key witness In the disappearance case has bas no not yet been apprehended FIRST WITNESS I Melville was the the first witness called by th the state on the fifth day dayt of or t the hearing S L I Later during a a. a minute five recess re recess re re- cess ess cess Defense Attorney Gilbert walked over to the press b bench and said t f You can say this this that that we vie will put on the stand reputable business businessmen men to proe prove that Mrs l McPherson was vas engaged in a business transaction transactIon transaction tion elsewhere to disprove the testimony tes tes- tes- tes of Lambert and Melville l j k Mrs W whose hose conf confession th that t. t she was ired hired and s b by y Mrs 1 Mc- Mc heron Gherson to produce false characters charac charac- ers to Q substantiate the story tory of ab abduction abduction ab- ab constituted the the- principal l actor factor led District Attorney Asa so sa Keyes to order felony complaints complaints com corn plaints against the evangelist her mother Mrs Ml'S Minnie Kennedy K I edy Mrs and four tour others was due to take the stand today r IThe The general f feeling about the courtroom of Judge Samuel R. R Blake was as at tl the time lime was near to place the lie he confessed perpetrator of the so- so AIled Carmet hoa x on the witness tand I CHIEF HIEF ACCUSER I t The rhe position of M Mrs s. s andr ander and her er r attorney S. S S. S Hahn in the c court eburt urt proceedings is unusual hough Though a co codefendant with Mrs McPherson Mrs 1 also is the chief accuser accused of the evangelist No s1 sign n of reco has passed between be be- tween the two women in court t tW I. I Gilbert chief of counsel for Mrs Irs McPherson made t from he the start that ho was as nOt cooperating oper co LUng with Hahn and the Continued on page 8 S. t. t I c 4 WITNESS SAYS HE OBSERVED AIMEE AT L. L A. A HOTEL Continued from page 1 live tive attorney is playing a distinct th third rd part In the drama If there thero was any lessening In In-In In interest in- in terest today In the tre unfolding court picture it was was rot not manifest in the corridors of the hall of Justice Outside Outside Outside Out Out- side the locked door of division No 2 another small group of ot privileged pd spectators gathered early They were for the most part as on previous previous previous pre pre- days friends or relatives of court attaches and stood Inside the barrier Outside the wooden gates two long lines of the curious l leaned against tire the marble walls of the corridor corridor corridor cor cor- hoping to glimpse at the Angelus Angelus Angelus An- An gelus temple pastor The evangelist and and- her mother however with their attorneys atto en entered Entered entered En en- the building by a side entrance entrance en entrance en- en trance and came came into the courtroom courtroom court court- room through the judges judges' chambes chambe cham- cham be bes bers s. No flashlight booms heralded herald herald- ed the entry of Mrs McPherson today to today to- to day for additional officers called by Jud Judge e Blake after Attorney Gilbert's Gilberts Gilberts Gilbert's Gilberts Gilbert's Gil Gil- berts bert's protest yesterday her herded ed the thre cameramen out of the way ay The was In Jn a jovial and talkative r mood b but her mother sat at quietly I f for the s session ssi n i. i in le begin In The There e was more color coler In the evangelists evangelist's evangelists evangelist's evange tJ lists list's face In contrast contract to the pallor of late yesterday when It was ap apparent apparent apparent ap- ap parent the strain was telling upon her |
