Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-20

r. A. Mckinley blind attorney or
Long Beach, who had posed as an
involuntary agent of Mrs. McPher-
sons alleged kidnapers, and Milton
Carlson, handwriting expert, both
testified today.
Miss Norris still wearing the ready
smile with which she had spiked the
sruff guns of defense cross eXamina-
tion yesterday, testified to the appar
ont intimate relations which had ex-
listed between Mrs. Mcpherson and
Mrs. Wiseman.
Directly contradicting the statement
of the evangelist that Mrs. Wise
man went to the temple home
stranger and left it q stranger
the 23 year old stenographer tes;;-
fled that when she first went to
Mrs. MePherscn's home, she WAS met
by Mrs. Wiseman who appeared to be
almost member of the household.
Carlson, whose evidence has been
forecast for weeks, definitely linked
Mrs. Mcpherson TO the grocery slips
found in Carmel cottage ana to I,
signature obtained for the delivery
of a telegram there.
The handwriting experts asser
tions were the high lights of the
prosecutions effort to prove that the
evangelist lived in the bungalow AZ
Carmel with her former radio opera
tor, Kenneth G. Ormiston, for several
days last May. At that time it was
announced from temple heaoquarrers
that Mrs. Mcpherson had been drown
ed while swimming at the beach,
while the evangelist herself, on her
sudden temperance at Douglas, Arr
zona, June %, stated that she had
been kidnapped May 18 and had been.
held for ransom. She denied oc-
cupancy of the Carmel cottage with
Ormiston or any other person ana
her defense attorneys have sought 20
show that mysterious Miss X was
the woman with Orm:ston there.
Carlson testified that Ine grocery
slips found at the back door of tine
Carmel bungalow were written by
the same hand that wrote notes on
a sermon left behind W --rs. Nc
Pherson when she disappeared at the
beach. He gave the same testimony
with regard to the signature acknows"
edging receipt of a telegram at the
Carmel cottage.
IIOO sAASNAElLIAo, OCl. IL H'J--A IGLleI
purporting to have been written bv
Miss Rachel Wells, the woman named
by Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman- -Sielaff as
the Miss X'' who signed affidavits
in an attempt to clear Aimee Semple
Mcpherson in the Carmel episode Of
of the evangelists disappearance my
terry, was received today by the Los
Angeles Examiner.
The letter was postmarked Oakland,
Calf, and bitterly assailed Mrs. Me-
Pherson. 1t declared that Miss Wells
/ ment. It read, III part:
II am Miss Rachel Wells I re-
! ceiyed $155 to sign the Miss X pa
pers. l wish to state that at the
time this was signed / did not know
/ that. the outcome
| Would be such as it is, namely that
! great many respectable people hal
been used and discredited or attempt
made to discredit people who no
doubt were doing their duty as law
abiding citizens.
| "As to my employment at the
Clinton cafeteria, 1 wish to say as
Mrs w. can tell, worked there un-
der a different name, and Mrs. w.
| knows why this was done.
Miss Kimball (Mrs. Wiseman's
twin sister, begged US both not to
do it but l did not know the resr-l-
| My object was to help woman who
had erred and L needed the money
1 and saw no harm in it,
The Salinas affidavit signed by the
! Miss X' of Mrs. Wiseman's con-
fessed Carmel hoax, was made in the
presence Of two attorneys for the
evangelist. They later declared that
4 the signer of the statement was
Mrs. Virla Kimball of Oakland, Mrs.
Wiseman.s twin sister. The Miss X''
swore that it was she and not Mrs.
Mcpherson who occup:eG a Carme!
cottage with Kenneth q. Ormiston
for ten days Immediately following
fhe eyangeliSt'S diSaDpear2nce.