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EVANGELIST’S STRANGE EXPERIENCE. . By Cable—Press Astocistion —Copyright. Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received Juno 24, 5.5 p.m.) NEAV YORK, Juno 23. A telegram from Douglas, Arizona, says that Mrs Aimeo Semple McPherson, a noted Los Angeles evangelist, who lias been missing since May IS, when she was believed to have been drowned when bathing, reached Douglas, on tlie Mexican border, on Wednesday, after escaping from two men and two women.
She says that they kidnapped her from Ocean Park beach, demanding half a million dollars ransom. She is now in hospital recovering.
Mrs McPherson said that from what she overheard from her captors’ conversations she understood that they “had planned to make away either with myself, my daughter Roberta, or Mary ■ Pickford. They also planned to kidnap another motion picture actress whoso name Of will not mention.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 25 June 1926, Page 9
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