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Show N.Y. MINISTER WILL DEFEND EVANGELIST Ankles Play Prominent Part In Identification of Ormis-ton's Ormis-ton's Companion at Carmel-by-the-Sea Love Cottage. NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (IT)-The (IT)-The Rev. Dr. John Roach St niton, one of (hi! country's lending ministers, minis-ters, announced today that on Sunday Sun-day morning he would present to his congregation ''the full defense of Aimee Seniple McPherson." Strnton said that Mrs. Straton Would tell how- she received "great physical and spiritual benefit" from Mrs. McPherson's ministrations when the evangelist was conducting meetings in Philadelphia four years ago. Mrs. Winifred Moseley, tutor of Udiue Utley, the child evangelist from Texns now in New York, also will tell of her experience with Mrs. McPherson, Strutou suid. Woman Persecuted "To me it is an amazing and distressing dis-tressing thing that Christians, and some preachers even, will aid in the hue and cry against this poor, persecuted per-secuted woman preacher,' Dr. Strut-on Strut-on commented "Even if she, In human hu-man weakness) has fulleu into sin, true Christians should now try to redeem her nnd lift her back up, instead of joining the devil's crowd out there w'ho are trying to draj; her down." 1 ( ' - i- . LO? ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 3(1 (UP) Aimee Semple McPherson's preliminary hearing on charges ot conspiracy to defeat justice will be resumed today with the state expected ex-pected to put Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman Wise-man Seilaff on the witness stand. : Mrs. Setilaff has -made on affidavit affi-davit that she was hired and coached coach-ed by the evangelist to produce a "Miss X," the mysterious companion compan-ion at- Carmel last summer of Kenneth Ken-neth G. Ormiston, radii! operator at Mrs. McPherson's temple. Mrs. Keiuiedy Collapses i Mrs. McPherson, Mrs. Seilaff, Ormiston, Or-miston, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, the evangelist's mother, aud "John Doe" Martin, an attorney, are charged with criminal conspiracy in connection connec-tion with the kidnaping story Mrs. McPherson told the grand jury up on her return after disappearing from the beach at Venice. The hearing was halted yesterday by the collapse of Mrs. Kennedy. Her recovery, however, assured resumption re-sumption of the hearing today. Mrs. Kennedy, business manager of her daughter's Angelus Temple, burst into tears and sobbed so hysterically hys-terically that she and Mrs. McPherson McPher-son had to be taken from the court room. Mrs. Seilaff, who is expected to be the state's strongest witness in its effort to prove the evangelist hoaxed the public, wns characterized characteriz-ed a fakir by another state witness, wit-ness, Howard C. Benedict, owner of the famous "love cottage" Ormiston Ormis-ton occupied during part of the period per-iod the evangelist was1 missing. t Benedict testified that Mrs. Sei-laffs Sei-laffs ankles in no way resembled those of the woman to whom he was introduced to as Ormistoii's wife. ! Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Taylor, of Ft. Madison. Iowa, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Busard this week. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor had just come from California, aud were making a honeymoon tour of the west. , - Mr. and Mrs. X. Gndmundson of Option, and Mr. and' Mrs. O. S. Gud-inuiidson', Gud-inuiidson', of Salt Lake, spent Thursday Thurs-day with Mrs. P. B. Burt. . '' |