Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-16

was under persecution by certain in
terests bent upon destruction" WHO
would stop at nothing to put me
out of the way"
1--WE are preachers and not fighters
Mother Minnie Kennedy said at the
temple Sister MCPHERSON came back
to the hold land in a worldwide cru
sade against sin, and her errorts wer.
so big, so great and SO powerful that
movement was started to crush /,
by branding her as a sinner. 1t is
the history of Christianity since the
time of the Savior that His disciples
have been prosecuted, but our wort
will survive Our WORK cannot bt
crushed.
SISTER Mcpherson in her glorious
faith placed her trust in everybody
and this is the result. 1t hardly seems
worth the effort to prepare answers
to these statements that are printed
with sensational headlines. Our state
ments get such little space and the
newspapers seems to want only the
sensational matter. But we are car
rying on. We expect these rersecu.
tions to continue, but our people have
faith
Mrs. Kennedy, after informing news
paper men that she was working on a
statement in answer to Miss Morris,
greeted them at the gate Of the Nc
Pherson home, adjoining Angelus Tenn
pie, later and announced that no
written statement would be forth
coming.
ITS martyrdom.' she said. "We
have known for weeks that they have
planned to drag Sister Mcpherson
from the pulpit of Angelus Temple in
sensational arrest.
This Morris girl did request US
to pay her $1,000 only a few days
ago. We decided it was not the
thing to do.
..As for the photograph of one o,
the kidnapers sent to us by Mr.. Nc
i<inley, the features were only dimly
outlined and we refused to use it,
replying that it could not possibly
be identified and the corroboratIve
evidence must accompany such a pic,
ture."
Statements Of Mrs Wiseman- Sic
laff that Mrs. Mcpherson had ordered
pictures taken in an effort TO show
the likeness between herself and Mrs.
Wiseman were corroborated before
District Attorney Asa Keyes by H. n.
Fisher, local photographers
He told the district attorney that
he went to Angelus Temple on sew
eral occasions and photographed Mrs.
Sfelaff and the evangelist standing
back to back. In response to a ques-
ton by the district attorney, the pho
tographer said that both women seem
ed to take an equal inerest in the
posing of the pictures.
Mrs Mcpherson, in the face of sen
sational developments today, lacked
her usual confident manner, when
seen by newspaper representatives at
the gate of her home going to the
temple Her voice was hoarse ant
strained. Her face was tired and
lined, much the same as when she
returned from Douglas, Ariz., last
June
"T called up the district attorne-s
few minutes ago." the evangelist
said in her sermon. Il told him !
was just going on the pulpit and
asked him what foundation there was
to all these rumors of impending ar
rest. 1 told him I hoped he would
rot have his men arrest me while /
was in the pulpit.
''He said he would promise not tc.
have me arrested before O'clock
Deputy District Attorney Dennison
created another stir of excitement
here tonight when he announced c
newspaper men that Roland Rich
Woolley, attorney for Mrs. Mcpherson
had corroborated the story of Mrs
Lorraine Wiseman- -Sielaff concerning
the Miss x" hoax. Woolley was
questioned in the district attorneys
office for nearly two hours, during
which a stenographic report of his
statements was made
do you mean that the story tola
you by Mr.. Woolley verifies the re.
port of questionable transactions
which you have reeeived% Dennlson
was asked.
II said his statement corroborated
Mrs. Wiseman's story, and meaf
just exactly that, the prosecutor
replied.
Wooiley described the session in the
district attorneys office as a law
yer to lawyer" conference.
Keyes said tonight that Joe Watts
of Long Beach, who had been named
by Miss Bernice Morris, secretary to
r. A. Mckinley, Long Beach attorney,
who was recently killed in an auto
mobile accident, as the synthetic
"Steve" in the case, had consented to
appear before the official tomorrow
to tell his part in the case.
Miss Morris said it was Watts wins
spoke to Mrs. Mcpherson over the
telephone and was said to have been
identified by the evangelist from that
conversation and photograph as
one of her alleged -llidnapers. The
part of Watts was to test the SINGER
ity Of Mrs. Mcpherson, Miss Morris
said, declaring that Watts In reality