Show WOMAN PASTOR HAD MARKS mm OF ROPE ON ARr ARMS S TRACKER SAY SAYS First Friendly Witness Takes Stand Stand I In hi Her Her Defense Defense BACKS HER TIER STORY Newspaper Gets Letter From Supposed Fake Miss X HALL OF JUSTICE LOS IOS AN- AN ANGELES AN ANGELES GELES Oct O-Dy O 20 By The Th As- As Associated As Associated The Press Press The wrists of ef Aimee Semple McPherson were ere bruised and bore marks of hay hay- haying Ing been bound by ropes when C E B Cross visited the th evangelist In a Douglas hospital a tw fw ow hours after her reappearance June Tune 23 last Cross testified here today In Inthe inthe Inthe the Angelus temple pastors pastor's con- con hearing Cross also declared the evange- evange evangelist evangelist ll list t was not wearing a wrist watch when he saw her at the hospital The prosecution attached con con- considerable considerable con considerable significance to the tle ques ques- ques- ques question tion Ion of or whether hether or not Mrs Irs Mc- Mc McPherson McPherson Mc Pherson had bad the watch in her possession while she asser asserted ed he was wag being conveyed by kidnapers from the beach at Ocean Part Park to toa toa toa a shack on the Mexican desert Miss Iss Emma Schaefer to Mrs Mr McPherson testified the pastor did not have the watch atch while the state tte Is understood to have had a 11 photograph taken at atthe atthe the hospital showing the watch on Mrs Mcphersons Mcpherson's wrist W The picture did not appear during the states state's case UNDER HOT SUN The witness who said ester yester yesterday day he had spent 20 years In the border country testified he lie walked 8 or 10 miles In search of or tra tracks ks on June 23 when the the the- th temperature was 99 degrees decrees as a compared with 97 7 degrees June 22 when Mrs McPherson declared she walked approximately approximately 20 miles mile to Lo Agua Prieta after escaping her kidnapers He lIe did not suffer front the heat he be said nor wO-S wO his shoes scarred scarred from the desert rocks and sand The Th slippers worn by the tho evangelist ev on her walk were Introduced In evidence by the state two weeks ago They bore no marks of ot hard usage Cross elevated his feet to the rail In front of ot the witness box to show how the court the condi condi- condition condition condition tion of o his shoes which ho he said saidI I were ere the same he wore wor on the search earch tor for tracks They did not appear cuffed nor peeled peel d The witness declared that on the day Mrs Irs McPherson trekked without the sun un baked desert water for tor 12 to 14 hours the sun was at her back ABSENCE CE OF OP SUNBURN The prosecution centered much testimony on the purported absence ot of sunburn or other superficial evidences e of or the effects of ot desert wind and sun from the tho evangelists evangelist's face tace when she h was taken to the hospital at Douglas Cross was turned over to the th states state's battery of ot prosecutors prosecutor or cross examination Mrs McPherson who was car car- carried carried ried ned Into court yesterday on a chair because of ot a painfully ab- ab abscessed knee was assisted Into the room this morning by two deputy sheriffs She was limping badly but did not appear to be bo suffering CItO CROSS S EXA EXAMINED C E B Cross Cros under cross examination examination examination could not positively Identity photograph I a ot or moun moun- mountain mountain tain lain and surrounding surround In country near Douglas Aris Ar although he ho prey prey- prevIously previously testified he had spent 20 years In the border country Cross Cros said It looked something like liko the desert de ert country at ot the hills hUls but would not state definitely It was the th mountain and contiguous territory A t few w minutes before he was wa shown the picture which numer numerous ous witnesses have Identified as the lous area from which the th evangelist emerged last June with her kid kid- kid naping story Cross estimated the tho distance from Agua Prieta to the house at yards Th distil distance nee previously was wa set by states tates witnesses at more mor than thana a mile mUe PRINTS ARE ARC FOU FOUND lD The rho witness said be ho found a womans woman's footprints In the sand at ata ata a 0 point more mor than seven even miles from Agua Pieta Pleta on a I road run run- running run run ning sout southeastward eastward from the th bor- bor bordor bor border der dor d town W Ho He H agreed It would have hav been Impossible for tor Mrs Mr McPherson t to have havo entered 1 this area assuming a that the tb kidnapers kidnaper shack was 15 or 20 miles distant from Agus Agua Prieta without having crossed a high fence tence tone or a road PAID rin 10 A DAY D The evangelist declared under oath that She he crossed near there but that she walked about 20 miles Cross Mid iid he expected a 0 salary or of 10 10 per day and ond his expenses for tor coming here her as ns a defense defens witness The Th self celt styled Arizona cowboy was the th object of a n rapid tire cross examination from E B J Dennison assistant prosecutor after acter he h had testified under direct that he thought It possible tor for Mrs McPherson to have hav walked the 20 0 miles of desert without water RECEIVED A letter purporting to have been written by Miss Rachel Wells the woman named by Mrs Lorraine Wiseman as the thc theMis Miss MIss X who signed affidavits In an attempt to clear Aimee Semple McPherson In the tho Car Car- Carmel Carmet mel Car met mel episode of the th evangelists evangelist's disappearance mystery was re- re Continued oa on Iau r so Tho 1 0 00 Ut AIMEE DEFENSE GETS INNING Continued Cont from Page One Ont by the Los Angeles Exam Exam- ExamIner Examiner iner bier Tho The letter was postmarked Oakland California and bitterlY assailed Mrs McPherson It de- de declared de declared dared that Miss Wells was paid for signing the tho th statement It read In part palt Miss Mis Rachel Hachel Wells ells I received to sign slen the th Miss X papers I wish to state that at the tho th time this was waa signed I did not know that that- the the outcome would ho bo such as It Is namely that a great many r respectable people had been bean used and discredited or at- at attempt at attempt tempt made mad to discredit people who no no doubt were doing their duty as a law abiding citizens citizen As Aa to my employment at the Clinton cafeteria I wish Ish to say sayas sayas as Mrs W can tell I worked there thero under a different name namo and Mrs W knows know why this had to tobe tobe tobe be done Mrs Mra Mr Kimball Mrs twin t 1 sister ed begs-ed us u both not to todo todo todo do It but I did not know the th ro- ro result cult re-cult suit sult My object was as to help a woman who had bad erred and end I needed the tho money and saw no harm In It The Th Salinas affidavit sIgned b by bythe byth the Mini JIlin X of or Mrs Mr confessed Carmel hoax was wag made In the th presence of ot two attorneys for the th evangelist They later do- do de dared d the th signer of ot the th state slate statement mont ment was Mrs Irs Vine Viria Kimball ot of Oakland Mrs Mr twin sister TI Tle Th e Miss X swore wore that It wa was she ho h and not lofts MY son Ion on who nho occupied a 0 Carmel Cannel cot cot ta tage with Ith Kenneth Kenn t 0 G Ormiston for tor 10 daYI day Immediately ly toll following owing the evangelists evangelist's disappearance rane |