M'PHERSON CASE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18889, 3 January 1927, Page 9

M'PHERSON CASE.

LETTER IN SYDNEY PAPER. (BT CAWJ-MMB ASIOCUTIOK-COmi»HT.) (AU9TBAUWJ U.S. CA*m iMOCHTI<)».) NEW YORK, December 30. A Los Angelea meesajp states that Mrs Aimefe McPherson said sh® was v surprised that the ordinary friendly; , letter alio wrote to Mrs Ormistpn ' in Sydney last May should have been termed by her as impertinent, Mt i> quoted by the Sydney "Dispatch.' il MRS ORMISTON MAY TESTIFY* ,(AUSTKAUiX A»D V.E. CABW USOCUTJOI.) 'j (Received January 2nd, 6.5 p.m.) NEW YORE, January L Los Angeles reports state that tfa* ' ' Public Proeecutor, Mr Keyes, indicated that Mrs Ormiston may be subpoenaed as a witness iov the proiecu<- .*•' tion in the McPherson conspiracy trial ' because she asserted she received to impertinent letter from Aimee Mc- }" \ l Phereon. , f~ fKenneth Ormistou, who wrs estranged from his wife and children, " >i who live in Sydney, was radio oper»tojr , at Mrs Mcpherson's "Million-Dollar ! r .< Soul Factory," when she disappeared, H» and the reports of bet being kidnapped i were circulated. He was arrested in. H. Harreabuiy,. Pennsylvania, and taken s £ to Chicago. Mrs Aimee McPherson ■■ | disappeared on May 18tH-, while surf* v .'ihV bathing at Santa Monica Beach. Later ■.' she reached Douglas, vArieena, on the Mexican border, saying that she had ' escaped from two men and two women „ who had kidnapped her from the Oofon ■' * Park Beach. The kidnappers demand- , x ed £IOO,OOO ransom- From what ph9 had overheard of the conversations of > her captors she understood' they had - planned to make away either with her <, daughter Roberta or Miw Mary Piokford, the film actress. Startling eri- < dence contradicting the story of the . \ > kidnapping was unfolded at tne Grand ' l , Jury investigation. An array of wit- '* nesses alleged that Mrs McPherson was in various places in 'California during the five weeks she said she was hela for ransom, after having been taken. •. . - by bandits to Mexico in a motor-car. •: Ormiston was alleged to have accom- 1 : panied her.] *