Evening star., 1926-10-06
MRS. MCPHERSON
RESTS AT BEACH
Goes to Seaside During LuI|
in Trial After Hearing
Self Called "Fake."
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Los ANGELES. October 6.-Aimee
Semple Mcpherson today sought
| solace in the rolling breakers on
Santa Monica Bay Beach, near the
place where she declares she was
kidnapped last May, as adjournment
of her preliminary hearing on con-
| spiracy charges until tomorrow Of
fered respite from the sharp court
repartee in which she yesterday
heard herself characterized as a
| fake" and a "hypocrite."
"Oh. for nice restful swim," ex-
| claimed the evangelist when. she
| learned Municipal Judge Blake had
| ordered days recess in the hear
/ ing at which District Attorney Asa
| Keyes is attempting to prove Mrs
Mcpherson and her mother, Mrs
| Minnie Kennedy. conspired to OBJ
struct Justice by manufacturing evil
dence to support the kidnapping
story. The Angelus Temple pastor
| and her mother left almost immedi-
ately after the adjournment for the
home of friends at Venice, a Santa
Monica Bay resort.
Witnesses Attack Story.
The evangelist said she would de-
vote the day to rest on the beach
which hundreds Of her followers pa
trolled for days after her disappear
ance on the theory that she had
drowned.
Mrs., McPherson's story of having
been kidnapped and held for ransom
was attacked by two States witnesses
during yesterdays hearing. The first
was Deputy District Attorney Joe
Ryan, who was recalled for cross.eX.
animation by defense counsel.
When asked to explain his mental
reaction" to the evangelist's story OF
abduction, Ryan expressed the belief
that the Angelus Temple pastor was
a fake" and "hypocrite."
He said his investigation at Doug
| las, Ariz., from where he made four
trips into Mexico and trailed the evan
gelist's footprints on the Sonora
Desert, led him to the conclusion
that Mrs. Mcpherson had not Travelled
| over 20 miles of waste land, as she
alleged In her original statement.
Ryan declared he did not believe
the pastor was ever in a shack or that
such a shack as she described ever
said he did not believe she was taker
to any such place by the persons
whom the evangelist described as
Steve" and Rose" nor did he be
lieve she was ever incarcerated.
Holds 2O-Mile Walk Impossible.
Ryan was followed in the witness
box by Police Sergt. Loren Murchi
son of Douglas. The Arizona officer
testified that due to physical barriers
the evangelist's desert trek could not
possibly have extended beyond a tri
angular area described by the Mexi
can border, road and a high board
fence. Within these limits Mrs. Nc
Pherson could not have Travelled more
than five miles from the international
boundary and seven miles from Aqua
Prieta, where she first appealed for
help, he testified.
Mrs. Mcpherson, according to her
own version, in her flight from her
captors had not crossed any road nor
had she gone through any fence. She
said she walked 20 miles.
District Attorney Keyes indicated
he would call more witnesses tomor-
row to testify on the Arizona phase of
the investigation. Meanwhile a ma
meth G. Ormiston, former Angelus
Temple radio operator. whom the
State charges aided the evangelist in
her disappearance.
Draft of Affidavit Found.
The Times today says two importan,
revelations in the Mcpherson case
have been brought to light. The first
is the discovery of a penciled draft OF
the famous Miss x" affidavit by Mrs
Lorraine Wiseman Sielaff, confessed
perpetrator of the Carmel hoax, de
clared by the district attorneys office
to be in the evangelist's handwriting
The second is the disclosure of an at
tempt on behalf of Mrs. Mcpherson tt
regain possession of clothing worn by
her when she reappeared in Arizona.
The penciled notes were taken from
Mrs. Sielaff'S safety deposit box fol
lowing her confession that she hat
been employed to produce false wit
nesses to substantiate the evangelist
kidnapping story. According to a state
ment to the district attorneys office
by Mrs. Sielaff, the notes were dic
tated by Mrs. Kennedy and written by
Mrs. Mcpherson while the two WON
en- were in conference with Mrs. Sic
laff in Mrs. McPhersons home, ad
joining Angelus Temple. From this
draft Mrs. Sielaff later prepared hel
affidavit in which she swore that she
was the companion of Ormiston dur
ing a Today stay at Carmel-by-t the
Sea. The State charges Mrs. Nc
PherSon was at Carmel with Ormiston
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