Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-13
WITNESS STATES
EVANGELIST PAID
FOR TESTIMONY
Declares MRS. Mcpherson
Agreed to Manufacture
of False Evidence.
By United Press Lpnscd Wire


Los ANGELES. Oct. b Mrs
Lorraine Wisrman, sclf-confcsscC
co-couspirator with Aimee 5cmple
Mcpherson in an alleged scheme to
obstruet justice, testified today
she was paid 5000 in promssory
notes 10 manufacture false evidence
in connection with the cStigation
Of Mrs. Mcpherson = disappearance.
Mrs Wiseman, vino turned state s
witness after her asserted hoax had
been exposed, declared the notes
were given to her by Mrs. McPhcr-
son and Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, co.
defendant and mother of the evan
gelist.
\ specific note for S2o3 which
iii" witness Identified was admitted
= evidence. Al Of the notes were
for 30 days and called for seven
Per cent interest, Mrs. Wiscman
testified
The witness. in affidavits to the
district attorney claims she was
rromised Il total Of 5000 to per-
torm her part in the alleged con
spiracy, which CONCERNED the where
abonts of the evangelist during her
disappearance last summer.
The state contends the evangelist
WIS with Kenneth G. Ormiston. her
radio operator, and Mrs. McPhcr-
SON maintains she was a captive
Of kidnapers.
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When the district attorney and
Mrs. Mcpherson 5 lawyer, Roland
Rich Woollcy, refused to believe
her narrative, she was ordered by
the evangelist to lay the fake
Carmel cvidencc' before the news
papers, Mrs. Wiscman testified.
The witness then related how her
story was given to the Los Angeles
morning newspapers. together with
pictures Of Mrs. Mcpherson and
Mrs. Wiscman, showing a distinct
resemblance between the two WON
en-.
Attorney Woolley arranged for
her to meet representatives Of the
papers, she said, and the complete
story, which she now admits is false
was published three days after the
district attorney declared the mar
rative a big hoax.
When | went to KeycS,' tcS-
titled the woman. 81 told him that
unless he did something about this
To Vlndicate Mrs. Mcpherson |
would tell the newspapers or take
ii up with the grand jury. He told /
ne to go home and 90 towork-
tAat lie did not believe my story.
''Then I went back to Mrs. Me
I herson and told her THE best
thing we can do is TO 60 to the
-
Under Guard
Mrs. Wiseman, since the prclimi,
"ary hearing OF the evangelist got
under way more than two weeks
ago, has been under protection of
plainclothcsmen furnished bv the
state. s. s. Hahn, her attorney,
claims the guards were needed to
;rotect his client from "rcligious
fanatics - alleged to have sent her
threatening letters.
Defense Attorney W. l. Gilbert
N'S eNnccted 10 make further eff d
forts this afternoon to have Mrs.
Wiseman disqualified as Il witness
"9 grounds she is a lunatic. The
witness admitted on the witness
stand Monday that she had once
served term in an insane asylum
in Utah.
The state plans to Introduce a
statement from Mrs. WiScman' sis
ter, Mrs. Virla Kimball, attcsting
to the sanity of their ace witness.
It was Mrs, Kimball who instigated
the Incarceration of her sister as a
lunatic. Mrs. Kimball is prepared
to state now, that Mrs. Wiseman
was placed i'll the asylum as a "lcs,
SON and not because of any men, /
tai affliction, according to the .
prescott ion