MYSTERIOUS CASE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 11, 10 December 1926, Page 7

MYSTERIOUS CASE

MISSING’WOMAN PREACHER.

ARREST OF WIRELESS OPER ATOR

ORISTON IN CUSTODY. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received December 10, 9.25 a.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 9. Kenneth Ormiston, the missing Angelus Temple radioman, who is wanted at Los Angeles in connection with the McPherson kidnapping case, was apprehended at Harrisburgli, Pennsylvania, by private detectives and left in custody for Chicago. Ormiston is estranged from his wife and children, who are believed to be in Sydney.—A. and N.Z. cable.

The ‘'“inost-talked-of” woman evangelist in the world, Mrs Aimee McPherson, who disappeared after bathing at a beach in California, and told an amazing story of kidnapping for ransom, has become involved in a case in which she is alleged to have been a party to a gigantic hoax, mention being made of a woman engaged to impersonate a mysterious “Miss X.” The action of the District Attorney at Los Angeles, in issuing warrants for the arrest of Mrs McPherson, her mother, Kenneth Ormiston (a radio operator), and two other people, caused a sensation throughout the United States. Her ardent admirers declare that the whole thing is a fiendish plot to discredit a woman whose good works and inspired preaching have put a distinct check to the unrestrained viciousness of the film colony’s “first four hundred.” Mrs McPherson remained away for several weeks, despite a most exhaustive search, finally turning up in hospital at Douglas, Arizona.