Evening star., 1926-09-15
STATE MAY RECALL
AIMEE MCPHERSON
Entire Case Probably Will Be
Reopened in View of Re-
cent Revelations.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Calf, September
15.-District Attorney Asa Keyes to-
day opened the Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson kidnapping investigation on
scale indicating he might call the
principal witnesses in previous in
quiries, as we'll as those identified with
the new charges that the story of the
evangelist's disappearance last May
was a hoax.
Mrs. Lorraine Wisema n -Sielaff, a
seamstress, who declared she received
money from Mrs. Mcpherson to
frame" certain things in connection
with the kidnapping story, was sched-
uled for further questioning today.
Mrs. Mcpherson yesterday admitted
employing Mrs. Wiseman-S -Sielaff in an
effort to obtain evidence to disprove
reports that she occupied q cottage
at Carmel, Calf, with a man identi-
fled as Kenneth G.. Ormiston, former
Angelus Temple radio operator.
Held IncOmmunicadO.
Mrs. Wiseman-Sielaff is credited
with starting the present investigation
with her statement that she was the
mysterious Miss X" who stayed at
the Carmel cottage with Ormiston for
10 days shortly after. the evangelist
disappeared. Mrs. Wiseman -Sielaff
last night was placed in custody of the
district attorneys detectives and Or
dered incommunicadO, following a
three-hour conference with Keyes.
AS the official investigation gained
headway, the Times today published a
purported confession by Miss Bernice
Morris, secretary of the late r. E. Nc
Kinley, blind Long Beach attorney,
that she had conferred with Mrs. Nc
Pherson about the plan started by her
former employer to produce mythical
kidnapers.
Shortly after the evangelist disap-
peared at Ocean Park Beach, May Is,
Mckinley told Keyes two men had
offered to produce Mrs. Mcpherson,
provided no questions were asked and
a suitable reward was posted. The
reward was posted, but Mckinley was
unable again to communicate with
the men. The blind attorney was
killed in a recent automobile accident.
Makes Accusations.
Miss Morris. the Times says. issued
a statement accusing Mrs. Mcpherson
of negotiating with Mckinley and her
self for the employment of kidnapers
and for the location of q desert shack
which would fit the requirements OF
the kidnapping story.
Keyes indicated he would again re
view the evangelist's story from the
time she disappeared until she reap
peared five weeks later at Aqua Pr1eta,
Mexico, to tell of her escape from two
men and a woman who held her
prisoner in a Sonora desert shack.
MIR. Keyes also inferred that
statement would be forthcoming from
his office after he had questioned GER
tain physicians in connection with the
Carmel episode. The prosecutor
would not say whether Mrs. McPher-
son or her mother, Mrs. Minnie Ken
nedy, would be called.
Another element of mystery enter
ed into the case yesterday, when Mrs.
Elizabeth Frame, close friend of the
woman pastor, revealed for the first
time that a "Mr. Young" was ac-
customed to telephoning Mrs. Nc
Pherson during the evangelists fire.
quent visits to the Frame beach
home at Venice. The telephone calls
were made since Mrs. Mcpherson re-
turned from Aqua Prieta, Mrs.
Frame stated. The identity of "Mr
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