Fri, Jul 02, 1926 ·Page 14
(The Cincinnati Enquirer, Fri, Jul 02, 1926 ·Page 14)
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GRAND JURY
Is To Hear Evidence
In Disappearance of Aimee
McPherson From Beach.
Consul Sends Report To President
of Mexico, Declaring Woman’s
Charge Is False.
Los Angeles, July 1 (A. P.)—Deputy District Attorney Joseph Ryan today announced that he was ready to present evidence in the Aimee McPherson disappearance case to the Los Angeles County Grand Jury upon the return of District Attorney Asa Keyes from San Francisco.
Ryan charged that Mrs. McPherson, evangelist, had treated his office “most unfriendly by not notifying us of her hurried departure for Douglas.”
Mrs. McPherson and her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, left for Douglas, Ariz., yesterday.
SPECIAL CABLE TO THE ENQUIRER.
Mexico City, July 1.—A report made by the Mexican consulate at Douglas, Ariz., for forwarding to President P. Elias Calles, and which has been received here, declares that there is no truth in the statement of Mrs. Aimee McPherson, evangelist, that she was kidnapped and taken to Mexican territory. The report says:
“The case of the kidnapping of Mrs. McPherson, the evangelist pastor of Los Angeles, Cal., has been proved to be false. No crime was committed in Mexican territory.
“Detectives from San Francisco and Los Angeles made three trips to the place indicated by Mrs. McPherson as the site where she was hidden, without finding it. It is probable that she was not in the place indicated, or in Sonora.
“The American authorities are interested in clarifying the matter. Newspapers at San Diego tell of another case where she has been incognito outside of Los Angeles, but this is not proved.
“Reports of detectives employed by this consulate to investigate the case coincide with the opinion of the San Diego newspaper.
“I have communicated the foregoing to Governor A. Bay, Sonora, in order that he may take the necessary measures to be ready to answer whatever questions he may receive from interested authorities.”
Douglas, Ariz., July 1 (A. P.)—Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles evangelist, her mother and a party of searchers returned here tonight after another futile search in the country along both sides of the international boundary line for the shack from which she says she escaped from kidnappers June 23.
Mrs. McPherson declared she recognized much of the country the party traversed south and east of Agua Prieta, Mexico, and said she would start out early tomorrow and “widen the circle of our search.”
Later, however, she changed her plans and boarded a train for Los Angeles.