The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-25
Evangelist Suffers Lapse of
Memory as to Deal With
Judge Hardy.
SMILES AND 00DGES
Senate Chamber Is Packed
for Trial of JuriSt for
Misconduct,
BY HOMER L. ROBERTS


SACRAMENTO, Cal, April Is
With smiling L can not remem-
Der, the fiery-haired Aimee Semple
Mcpherson successfully repulsed her
prosecution questions in near-mid-
night session OF the impeachment
trial of Superior Judge Carlos
Hardy.
The calling of the Angelus Temple
evangelist to the witness stand was
entirely unexpected. but her testi-
mony was devoid of any definite
reference to her mysterious surf
to-sand" disappearance in 1926,
which eventually brought Judge
Hardy before senate court charged
with misconduct in office
The senate chamber and gallery
was packed to capacity with women
and men who had listened for sew
eral days to the charges of Mrs.
Lorraine WiSeman-S elaff that the
eyangelists kidnapping story was a,
hoax" to cover up her visit at the
Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage of Ken
meth G. Ormiston, her radio oper-
ator
Assemblyman Walter Little oues-
toned Mrs. Mcpherson.
No Definite Answers
Her questioning lasted for five
minutes, during which time Assem-
blynan Little failed to gain one
definite answer
The assemblyman prosecutor re-
ferred directly to the charge that
Judge Hardy had aided Mrs. Nc
Pherson during the grand jury IN
VeStigatiOn Off her kidnapping story.
For this did, the state charges. Mrs.
Mcpherson paid Judge Hardy
$500. The accused jurist contends
he accepted the money as a love
Offering
Little first asked the evangelist if
she ever had had conversations with
Judge Hardy concerning the story
of R. A. Mckinley, blind Long
Beach attorney who claimed that
two Of Mrs, McPher5on's "kidnap-
ers' had called upon him and Of
fered to deliver the evangelist for
$4,000 ransom.
I can not remember" Mrs. Nc
FherSon answered.
Witness Can't Remember
did Judge Hardy ever tell you
that ne was going to call upon a
neWspaperman, Wallace Moore, at
Santa Barbara" the prosecutor
asked.
Moore was a states witness who
testified that he had identified Mrs.
Mcpherson as Omissions compan-
ion in an automobile which he had
stopped at Santa Barbara during
the evangelist's disappearance.
The witness withheld her answer
while state and defense counsel
argued over the question. She was
told to answer.
Well, someone asked me- she
replied. Maybe it was Judge
Hardy, or maybe it was mother.
But no she corrected, lit
couldn't have been tine judge, be-
cause I never saw him after the
check-the gift--was given him."
Her assurance left her momen-
tarily as she stumbled over the
words check" and gift" but she
was herself again in a moment
despite the buzz Of comment which
followed the statement.
Memory Fails Again
Prosecutor Little then showed the
witness her testimony at the state
assemblv hearing in Los Angeles in
which she testified Judge Hardy had
told her ne was going to call on her
before leaving on his vacation.
That was my best recollection al
that time" she said.
Then, with a parting II can not
remember" to Titles last question,
the EVANGELIST left the stand. Little
apparently was convinced that
nothing was to DC gained from the
witness BY further questioning.
State and defense then rested
their cases. leaving for today only
final arguments. Judge Hardy, it
was said. will make brief argu-