WITNESSES TELL ABOUT FOOT TRACKS
Effort Being Made to Identify Desert Tracks as Those of Evangelist
Arizona witnesses were to give further testimony in the conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, who contends that she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert and walked to a town on the border.
Testimony in the Los Angeles conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, who says she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert.
Los Angeles, Oct. 26. - (AP) - Arizona witnesses were to offer more testimony today in the conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple McPherson in support of her contention that she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert and walked nearly 20 miles to fall exhausted near a house in the border town of Agua Prieta.
If the tracks which some witnesses have testified they found 15 or 18 miles south of Agua Prieta, near a shack, are hers, then, her attorneys assert, it tends to prove she walked a long distance to escape from her abductors. If no tracks that can be identified as hers can be found more than three or four miles from Agua Prieta, then the prosecution asserts it proves she went to the Mexican town in some conveyance and walked only a short distance. Douglas Constable Testifies Constable O. A. Ash of Douglas, Arizona, across from Agua Prieta, who was on the stand yesterday when court recessed until 10 a. m. today, described tracks he found about four miles south of Agua Prieta. He was expected to complete his testimony today.
Several times during the hearing the question of tracks has come up. The state contends if she made any tracks they led from Ocean Park, where she went in swimming last May and disappeared, to Carmel-By-The-Sea, a resort town, where it is further alleged she was the bungalow companion of Kenneth G. Ormiston, former radio operator at her church. The state admits that certain tracks in and around Agua Prieta may have been hers.
Superior Judge Carlos S. Hardy yesterday testified that he accepted the evangelist's abduction story as an explanation of her disappearance from Angelus Temple last May and her reappearance in Mexico five weeks later. He said he employed a detective shortly after the evangelist disappeared to attempt to get in touch with the kidnaper who, he had been informed, would return Mrs. Mc-Pherson if a suitable reward was offered.
Several witnesses were to testify today relative to attempts to locate Mrs. McPherson during her absence and when the state charges she was in hiding at California resorts.
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WITNESSES TELL ABOUT FOOT TRACKS
Effort Being Made to Identify Desert Tracks as Those of Evangelist
Arizona witnesses were to give further testimony in the conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, who contends that she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert and walked to a town on the border.
Testimony in the Los Angeles conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, who says she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert.
Los Angeles, Oct. 26. - (AP) - Arizona witnesses were to offer more testimony today in the conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple McPherson in support of her contention that she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert and walked nearly 20 miles to fall exhausted near a house in the border town of Agua Prieta.
If the tracks which some witnesses have testified they found 15 or 18 miles south of Agua Prieta, near a shack, are hers, then, her attorneys assert, it tends to prove she walked a long distance to escape from her abductors. If no tracks that can be identified as hers can be found more than three or four miles from Agua Prieta, then the prosecution asserts it proves she went to the Mexican town in some conveyance and walked only a short distance. Douglas Constable Testifies Constable O. A. Ash of Douglas, Arizona, across from Agua Prieta, who was on the stand yesterday when court recessed until 10 a. m. today, described tracks he found about four miles south of Agua Prieta. He was expected to complete his testimony today.
Several times during the hearing the question of tracks has come up. The state contends if she made any tracks they led from Ocean Park, where she went in swimming last May and disappeared, to Carmel-By-The-Sea, a resort town, where it is further alleged she was the bungalow companion of Kenneth G. Ormiston, former radio operator at her church. The state admits that certain tracks in and around Agua Prieta may have been hers.
Superior Judge Carlos S. Hardy yesterday testified that he accepted the evangelist's abduction story as an explanation of her disappearance from Angelus Temple last May and her reappearance in Mexico five weeks later. He said he employed a detective shortly after the evangelist disappeared to attempt to get in touch with the kidnaper who, he had been informed, would return Mrs. Mc-Pherson if a suitable reward was offered.
Several witnesses were to testify today relative to attempts to locate Mrs. McPherson during her absence and when the state charges she was in hiding at California resorts.
Reproduced unchanged from The Bismarck Tribune, October 26, 1926, page 1.
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Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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WITNESSES TELL ABOUT FOOT TRACKS
Effort Being Made to Identify Desert Tracks as Those of Evangelist
Arizona witnesses were to give further testimony in the conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, who contends that she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert and walked to a town on the border.
Testimony in the Los Angeles conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, who says she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert.
Los Angeles, Oct. 26. - (AP) - Arizona witnesses were to offer more testimony today in the conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple McPherson in support of her contention that she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert and walked nearly 20 miles to fall exhausted near a house in the border town of Agua Prieta.
If the tracks which some witnesses have testified they found 15 or 18 miles south of Agua Prieta, near a shack, are hers, then, her attorneys assert, it tends to prove she walked a long distance to escape from her abductors. If no tracks that can be identified as hers can be found more than three or four miles from Agua Prieta, then the prosecution asserts it proves she went to the Mexican town in some conveyance and walked only a short distance. Douglas Constable Testifies Constable O. A. Ash of Douglas, Arizona, across from Agua Prieta, who was on the stand yesterday when court recessed until 10 a. m. today, described tracks he found about four miles south of Agua Prieta. He was expected to complete his testimony today.
Several times during the hearing the question of tracks has come up. The state contends if she made any tracks they led from Ocean Park, where she went in swimming last May and disappeared, to Carmel-By-The-Sea, a resort town, where it is further alleged she was the bungalow companion of Kenneth G. Ormiston, former radio operator at her church. The state admits that certain tracks in and around Agua Prieta may have been hers.
Superior Judge Carlos S. Hardy yesterday testified that he accepted the evangelist's abduction story as an explanation of her disappearance from Angelus Temple last May and her reappearance in Mexico five weeks later. He said he employed a detective shortly after the evangelist disappeared to attempt to get in touch with the kidnaper who, he had been informed, would return Mrs. Mc-Pherson if a suitable reward was offered.
Several witnesses were to testify today relative to attempts to locate Mrs. McPherson during her absence and when the state charges she was in hiding at California resorts.
Reproduced unchanged from The Bismarck Tribune, October 26, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from The Bismarck Tribune, October 26, 1926, page 1.
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WITNESSES TELL ABOUT FOOT TRACKS
Effort Being Made to Identify Desert Tracks as Those of Evangelist
Arizona witnesses were to give further testimony in the conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, who contends that she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert and walked to a town on the border.
Testimony in the Los Angeles conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, who says she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert.
Los Angeles, Oct. 26. - (AP) - Arizona witnesses were to offer more testimony today in the conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple McPherson in support of her contention that she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert and walked nearly 20 miles to fall exhausted near a house in the border town of Agua Prieta.
If the tracks which some witnesses have testified they found 15 or 18 miles south of Agua Prieta, near a shack, are hers, then, her attorneys assert, it tends to prove she walked a long distance to escape from her abductors. If no tracks that can be identified as hers can be found more than three or four miles from Agua Prieta, then the prosecution asserts it proves she went to the Mexican town in some conveyance and walked only a short distance. Douglas Constable Testifies Constable O. A. Ash of Douglas, Arizona, across from Agua Prieta, who was on the stand yesterday when court recessed until 10 a. m. today, described tracks he found about four miles south of Agua Prieta. He was expected to complete his testimony today.
Several times during the hearing the question of tracks has come up. The state contends if she made any tracks they led from Ocean Park, where she went in swimming last May and disappeared, to Carmel-By-The-Sea, a resort town, where it is further alleged she was the bungalow companion of Kenneth G. Ormiston, former radio operator at her church. The state admits that certain tracks in and around Agua Prieta may have been hers.
Superior Judge Carlos S. Hardy yesterday testified that he accepted the evangelist's abduction story as an explanation of her disappearance from Angelus Temple last May and her reappearance in Mexico five weeks later. He said he employed a detective shortly after the evangelist disappeared to attempt to get in touch with the kidnaper who, he had been informed, would return Mrs. Mc-Pherson if a suitable reward was offered.
Several witnesses were to testify today relative to attempts to locate Mrs. McPherson during her absence and when the state charges she was in hiding at California resorts.
Reproduced unchanged from The Bismarck Tribune, October 26, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from The Bismarck Tribune, October 26, 1926, page 1.
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Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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WITNESSES TELL ABOUT FOOT TRACKS
Effort Being Made to Identify Desert Tracks as Those of Evangelist
Arizona witnesses were to give further testimony in the conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, who contends that she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert and walked to a town on the border.
Testimony in the Los Angeles conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, who says she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert.
Los Angeles, Oct. 26. - (AP) - Arizona witnesses were to offer more testimony today in the conspiracy hearing of Aimee Semple McPherson in support of her contention that she escaped from kidnapers in the northern Mexican desert and walked nearly 20 miles to fall exhausted near a house in the border town of Agua Prieta.
If the tracks which some witnesses have testified they found 15 or 18 miles south of Agua Prieta, near a shack, are hers, then, her attorneys assert, it tends to prove she walked a long distance to escape from her abductors. If no tracks that can be identified as hers can be found more than three or four miles from Agua Prieta, then the prosecution asserts it proves she went to the Mexican town in some conveyance and walked only a short distance. Douglas Constable Testifies Constable O. A. Ash of Douglas, Arizona, across from Agua Prieta, who was on the stand yesterday when court recessed until 10 a. m. today, described tracks he found about four miles south of Agua Prieta. He was expected to complete his testimony today.
Several times during the hearing the question of tracks has come up. The state contends if she made any tracks they led from Ocean Park, where she went in swimming last May and disappeared, to Carmel-By-The-Sea, a resort town, where it is further alleged she was the bungalow companion of Kenneth G. Ormiston, former radio operator at her church. The state admits that certain tracks in and around Agua Prieta may have been hers.
Superior Judge Carlos S. Hardy yesterday testified that he accepted the evangelist's abduction story as an explanation of her disappearance from Angelus Temple last May and her reappearance in Mexico five weeks later. He said he employed a detective shortly after the evangelist disappeared to attempt to get in touch with the kidnaper who, he had been informed, would return Mrs. Mc-Pherson if a suitable reward was offered.
Several witnesses were to testify today relative to attempts to locate Mrs. McPherson during her absence and when the state charges she was in hiding at California resorts.
Reproduced unchanged from The Bismarck Tribune, October 26, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from The Bismarck Tribune, October 26, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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