CHARGES DISMISSED
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BY MRS McPherson CHIEF WITNESS UNRELIABLE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LOS ANGELES, January 10. The charges of a criminal conspiracy against Aimee McPherson, her mother, Mrs Kennedy, and Kenneth Ormiston and others, the outcome of the evangelist’s disappearance, were dismissed by thy Superior Court on Monday, on the motion of District Attorney Keyes, who stated: “The evidence laid before mo tends to show that after McPherson had gone Carmel returned with an unreasonable story of kidnapping. She and others induced Mrs Wiseman-Seilaff to pro-
duce false testimony or evidence ill tho nature of an alibi in the Carmel episode. “The chief evidence laid before me was the testimony of Seilaft. Without her testimony proof of the alleged conspiracy is now impossible. Since the preliminary hearing against McPherson, Seilnff has changed her story almost daily until now it contains so many contradictions and inconsistencies that, she has become a witness for whose truth or credibility no prosecutor could vouch.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12652, 12 January 1927, Page 7
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163CHARGES DISMISSED New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12652, 12 January 1927, Page 7
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