AIMEE MUST STAND TRIAL ON HOAX CHARGE
Municipal Judge Samuel R. Blake bound Aimee Semple McPherson over to the superior court for trial on charges of criminal conspiracy, together with her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman Sielaff.
Aimee Semple McPherson was bound over to the superior court by municipal Judge Samuel R. Blake at Los Angeles Wednesday for trial on charges of criminal conspiracy. Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of the evangelist, and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman Sielaff, her chief accuser, charged jointly with Mrs. McPherson also were held for trial in the higher court.
Judge Blake's decision followed a preliminary hearing which lasted five weeks. The state charged that Mrs. McPherson perpetrated a disappearance hoax and employed Mrs. Sielaff and others to manufacture false evidence to make good her abduction story. The evangelist declared she was kidnapped from the beach at Ocean Park, May 18, taken to a shack in Sonora Mexico, and there held for ransom until she escaped June 22 and walked into Agua Prieta on the border.
Mrs. McPherson and her mother both declined to comment on Judge Blake's decision but as the two women left the courtroom the evangelist said to friends about her:
"As God is my judge, I am innocent of these charges."
Reproduced unchanged from The Coconino Sun, November 5, 1926, page 12.
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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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AIMEE MUST STAND TRIAL ON HOAX CHARGE
Municipal Judge Samuel R. Blake bound Aimee Semple McPherson over to the superior court for trial on charges of criminal conspiracy, together with her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman Sielaff.
Aimee Semple McPherson was bound over to the superior court by municipal Judge Samuel R. Blake at Los Angeles Wednesday for trial on charges of criminal conspiracy. Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of the evangelist, and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman Sielaff, her chief accuser, charged jointly with Mrs. McPherson also were held for trial in the higher court.
Judge Blake's decision followed a preliminary hearing which lasted five weeks. The state charged that Mrs. McPherson perpetrated a disappearance hoax and employed Mrs. Sielaff and others to manufacture false evidence to make good her abduction story. The evangelist declared she was kidnapped from the beach at Ocean Park, May 18, taken to a shack in Sonora Mexico, and there held for ransom until she escaped June 22 and walked into Agua Prieta on the border.
Mrs. McPherson and her mother both declined to comment on Judge Blake's decision but as the two women left the courtroom the evangelist said to friends about her:
"As God is my judge, I am innocent of these charges."
Reproduced unchanged from The Coconino Sun, November 5, 1926, page 12.
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 Coconino Sun, November 5, 1926, page 12.
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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AIMEE MUST STAND TRIAL ON HOAX CHARGE
Municipal Judge Samuel R. Blake bound Aimee Semple McPherson over to the superior court for trial on charges of criminal conspiracy, together with her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman Sielaff.
Aimee Semple McPherson was bound over to the superior court by municipal Judge Samuel R. Blake at Los Angeles Wednesday for trial on charges of criminal conspiracy. Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of the evangelist, and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman Sielaff, her chief accuser, charged jointly with Mrs. McPherson also were held for trial in the higher court.
Judge Blake's decision followed a preliminary hearing which lasted five weeks. The state charged that Mrs. McPherson perpetrated a disappearance hoax and employed Mrs. Sielaff and others to manufacture false evidence to make good her abduction story. The evangelist declared she was kidnapped from the beach at Ocean Park, May 18, taken to a shack in Sonora Mexico, and there held for ransom until she escaped June 22 and walked into Agua Prieta on the border.
Mrs. McPherson and her mother both declined to comment on Judge Blake's decision but as the two women left the courtroom the evangelist said to friends about her:
"As God is my judge, I am innocent of these charges."
Reproduced unchanged from The Coconino Sun, November 5, 1926, page 12.
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 Coconino Sun, November 5, 1926, page 12.
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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AIMEE MUST STAND TRIAL ON HOAX CHARGE
Municipal Judge Samuel R. Blake bound Aimee Semple McPherson over to the superior court for trial on charges of criminal conspiracy, together with her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman Sielaff.
Aimee Semple McPherson was bound over to the superior court by municipal Judge Samuel R. Blake at Los Angeles Wednesday for trial on charges of criminal conspiracy. Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of the evangelist, and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman Sielaff, her chief accuser, charged jointly with Mrs. McPherson also were held for trial in the higher court.
Judge Blake's decision followed a preliminary hearing which lasted five weeks. The state charged that Mrs. McPherson perpetrated a disappearance hoax and employed Mrs. Sielaff and others to manufacture false evidence to make good her abduction story. The evangelist declared she was kidnapped from the beach at Ocean Park, May 18, taken to a shack in Sonora Mexico, and there held for ransom until she escaped June 22 and walked into Agua Prieta on the border.
Mrs. McPherson and her mother both declined to comment on Judge Blake's decision but as the two women left the courtroom the evangelist said to friends about her:
"As God is my judge, I am innocent of these charges."
Reproduced unchanged from The Coconino Sun, November 5, 1926, page 12.
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 Coconino Sun, November 5, 1926, page 12.
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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AIMEE MUST STAND TRIAL ON HOAX CHARGE
Municipal Judge Samuel R. Blake bound Aimee Semple McPherson over to the superior court for trial on charges of criminal conspiracy, together with her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman Sielaff.
Aimee Semple McPherson was bound over to the superior court by municipal Judge Samuel R. Blake at Los Angeles Wednesday for trial on charges of criminal conspiracy. Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of the evangelist, and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman Sielaff, her chief accuser, charged jointly with Mrs. McPherson also were held for trial in the higher court.
Judge Blake's decision followed a preliminary hearing which lasted five weeks. The state charged that Mrs. McPherson perpetrated a disappearance hoax and employed Mrs. Sielaff and others to manufacture false evidence to make good her abduction story. The evangelist declared she was kidnapped from the beach at Ocean Park, May 18, taken to a shack in Sonora Mexico, and there held for ransom until she escaped June 22 and walked into Agua Prieta on the border.
Mrs. McPherson and her mother both declined to comment on Judge Blake's decision but as the two women left the courtroom the evangelist said to friends about her:
"As God is my judge, I am innocent of these charges."
Reproduced unchanged from The Coconino Sun, November 5, 1926, page 12.
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 Coconino Sun, November 5, 1926, page 12.
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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