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Show JUDGE TELLS OF $2500 CHECK LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5 (UP) Explaining more fully his acceptance accept-ance of a check for $2500 from Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, superior Judge : Carlos Hardy said today that the transaction resulted from legal services ser-vices rendered before Mrs. McPherson McPher-son became involved in criminal charges in connection with her purported kidnapping in 1926. "Although the money was given to me after prosecution of Mrs. McPherson actually was in, progress it was in recognition of advice I had given prior to the actual kidnapping," kidnap-ping," he said.t "I really see no good of all this excitement about the matter. I frequently gave legal advice to Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. McPherson and the gift was merely a recognition of that service. |