Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-06-26
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nizas ranch. Mrs. Mcpherson, search
ing intently was unable to see any
marks of Identification in the terrain
there or along the route, other than
that she still could plainly see Niger
Head mountain.
Returning from that trip, the party
turned south from Aqua Prieta to
make a final search before returning
to this city.
Locate Shacke
When Mrs. Aimee Semple Mcpherson
was notified during the noon hour that
James Randolph, famous southwestern
automobile racing track driver and an
operative of the Fox Film company,
declared that they had located the
abductors' shack, she was overcome
with JOY.
.eThank God! Thank Godw And
then she closed her eyes and her lips
uttered prayer. II do so hope they
are right in their supposition. Oh, il
they only are!"
Before the God in whom I have
every faith and utter belief, I say to
you that every word 1 have uttered
about my Kidnapping and escape is
true" said Mrs. Mcpherson this after
noon.
eff [ have been unable to answer
any question propounded by scores of
newspapermen,. detectives, attorneys,
friends--even my own mother-I have
told them, I do not know or I do not
remember
my story is true I have permitted
every reporter to ask any question,
and when I knew the answer I gave
it,"
Aimee Semple Mcpherson will insti-
tute several libel suits" as soon as
she returns to Los Angeles. She ques-
toned several reporters standing in
front of the Gadsden hotel at 1880 this
morning about the identity of certain
reporters and the stories which they
wrote. There is no doubt but that
she intends to sue some newspapers
and news gathering organizations.
The evangelist, reappearing on the
outskirts of Aqua Prieta Sonora, Mex
leo, in an exhausted condition and
wildly hysterical early Wednesday
morning, today while she talked with
reporters and Herman Cline of the
Los Angeles police department, trem-
bled with anger over what she indi-
Gated was unfairness of some news
per reporters.
She especially resented the appella-
ton, "self- styled healer declaring that
she never advertised herself as
healer" but that she only agreed to
pray for people who were i'll ins- the
belief that they would be healed by
Divine grace.
The evangelist is to call a meeting
of all press representatives upon her
return from the country around the
San Bernardino ranch, where She went
today in search of the shack where her
abductors bound her, hand and foot.
and indicated that every reporter would
be given the third degree" in an eff
fort to find out who wrote what she
considers uncomplimentary stories.
One California newspaper reporter
received particularly severe censure
from Mrs. Mcpherson, but not wholly
because of what he had sent out to his
newspaper Standing in front of the
hotel, Mrs. Mcpherson overheard some
thing which the reporter said to his
fellow scribes
The evangelist wasted no time in
arraigning him and plying him with
questions. His answers did not seem
to satisfy her, and before she broke
off the conversation she intimated the
charge that he was behind many of the
alleged unsavory stories that have
gone out about her
Dame Rumor, mother of fact at mec
cas- for newspaper men, early made her
appearance in Douglas following the
temperance of Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson, Angelus temple evangelist.
Scores of rumors have been traced,
both successfully and unsuccessfully,
by special writers here covering the
Mcpherson story
Two rumors, either of which might
prove of Importance in solving the abb
duction case, were in circulation to-
day. They came to the attention of
r. L. Kirk, who is doing specitl inves-
tigation work for the Douglas police
department.
The first rumor was to the effect that
woman dressed very simply begged
a ride in a passing car on the Ben
son-Doug1as highway, north Of here,
on the morning after Mrs. Mcpherson
bobbed up in Aqua Prieta, Sonora,
Mexico, after an absence of SO days.
The woman had with her nothing but
bundle of reddish golden hair wrap
ped in a newspaper.
Mrs. McPherson's abductors cut off
part of her hair, some of which was
received by Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, her
mother, in a letter demanding ransom
money.
Three and one-half hours after the
Mcpherson party set out for San Der.
nardino, another left for the country
south of Aqua Prieta. The second par
ty consisted of Leslie Gatliff, night po-
lice lieutenant here, and considered one
of the best crackers in the southwest;
Constable o. A. Ash, Tom Simms, dep
uty United States marshal, and a re-
porter.
While Mrs. Mcpherson ande Cline are
seeking for a shack in a raVine south
east of Slaughter's ranch, the posse
will look for a cabin or shack in the
head of Creases canyon at the mouth
Of a pass.
4 Mrs. McPherson's children, Rolf and
Roberta, were up at the time their
mother left for San Bernardino, and
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