Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-07

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| Saturday. instead of appearing be-
fore Assistant United States Attorney
Simpson as he had suggested they
| do, Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. McPher-
son retained Arthur = Veitch, an at
/ torney, and Nick Harris, head of a
! private detective agency, to confer
/ with postal inspectors. The gist of
this meeting was to inform the pub
/ lie through the press that leaders of
/ Angelus Temple were willing to CO.
| operate with the federal authorities
| in ferreting out the writers of the
ransom letters.
Indications yere that Attorney Nc
| Nabb would confer with postal in
! spectors who Investigated the course
of the $50O.0Oe ransom letter that
contained a lock of Mrs. McPher-
sons hair and then call the three
/ temple workers, Mrs. Kennedy, Miss
Schaffer and Mrs. Rice to give their
version of the letters course after
it was received at the temple, be-
fore the United States grand jury
when it meets in weekly session
| next Wednesday,
i Parallel lines of the MCPHERSON
disappearance and that of Mrs. Vir-
ginia Lee Cookson nearly a year
ago may be checked by Mr.. McNabb.
The most striking point involved
in these cases is that both women
were threatened with sale to a re-
puted wealthy Mexican in Mexico
City who was known to the Nc
Pherson case as "Old Felipe" and
in the Cool1son case as "Old DON"
The typewriteror typewrfters that
were used to write the two $5O0,OOu
ransom letters are being sought now
by two of four postal inspectors
who were asked to work on the
ease by Captain of Detectives Cline.
Past similar inquiries have caused
/ postal investigators to check sam
! Piles of typewriters nearest the homes
and place of business of those who
received them, the theory being that
writer's of ransom letters often
stealthily employ machines that
j! being used
/ An additional clew is being sought
! from the mail clerk on the train be-
i tween Tucson and Ell Paso that on
!; June 18, last, received the last ran
som letter. Postal inspectors have
| declined to divulge his name but he
is expected to be called into Los
Angeles before the grand jury meet
ing Wednesday,
AIMEES CROSS ORGANIZATION
Aimee Semple Mcpherson arose to
her own defense Sunday as she
preached to 10000 people that packed
Angelus Temple attending three serv-
ices held throughout the day.
| Bringing the full strength of her
personality and powerful elocution to
bear, she ridiculed rumors that have
arisen since her disappearance and
remarkable temperance.
Taking as her text God In His
, Workshop" the evangelist hurled her
first bombshell of defense when she
/ addressed those that gathered to hear
! her afternoon sermon. She repeated.
in substance, the same statements
at the evening meeting.
her sermon, as recorded by Mae
B. Waldrop, Mrs. McPherson's stenog-
rapher is reproduced here, in part,
as follows:
1t is peculiar what little silly
things they can bubble over. Some
BODY says that somebody changed a
stamp on letter. That is worth at
least four columns. How did it get
changed? Perhaps a little child
VINO knows? At least we do not
know how it got changed if it was
changed When letter comes into
your hand, however, the responsibility
OF the postal department of the
United States ceases as far as your
changing the stamp is concerned if
II is your own letter. Their only
interest in it then is if it contains
matter forbidden in the mails. You
can take the stamp off if YOU like.
although nobody knows anything
about the changing of this certain
stamp here.
Mail Often Delayed
Dld 1T come in on Saturday or
Monday" some one asks.
1t might have come in on Satur-
DAY afternoon and never have bAen
opened until Monday or Tuesday. for
we have too many letters to care
for the instant they arrive. More
over our mail is not opened SATURDAY.
afternoons I do not know of anv
| large business in town that onens
the Saturday afternoon mail befor,
Monday. Sometimes the rush of work
delays the opening of the Saturday
mall until Tuesday morning.
/ Did you not hold that letter III,
ITO raise $4O,OO0?"
No Not at all. To begin with
s4o'ooo was not raised but $4Sao Sc
IN cash and about $4,000 in pled .yas
from the Sunday school, the choir
! the band, the usher body, the order
iies ana other department of the
temple which were payable within a
year. No personal pledges but our
IoWn working organizations.
/ Furthermore, the money was not
raised to put up a monument for
sister McPherson-som great mar
bic shaft with an angel poised on
one toe on top; but it was for tbe