| Show Letter Having Hav ng Important McPherson Case Tampered With Is Charge Effort Made to Have It Appear Communication C horn from Supposed Abductors Reached Mrs Kennedy After Instead of Before Memorial MemOria Service Held for Missing Evangelist t t 1 Los T OS ANGELES July By 1 B 1 I By The As Associated The Press Press The TheLi II Los Angeles Times on OR the McPherson mys mys- mystery mys- mys mystery tery says it has learned through postal officials l the police and ana the district attorneys attorney's office that stamps on a letter having an important bearing on th the case have been tampered with in an effort to make i it appear that the communication communication communication tion was as received after and t nl nt n t before a large sum suni of money and pledges were received at a memorial service held for the missing evangelist i iThe S The letter addressed S to Mrs Minnie Kennedy the pastors pastor's mother contained what hat Is alleged alleged- allegedly ly ly a k lock of the religious leaders hair and answers In part to ques ques- questions ques- ques questions Lions propounded by Mrs SIrs Kennedy to satisfy herself as to the th truth of a claim that her daughter IQ- IQ instead In Instead stead of having ha been drowned at Ocean Park was In reality being held for ransom by kidnapers STORY STORT or LETTER r The Th Times described ed Herman dine Cline chief of Los Angeles de- de detectives detectives de detectives as liS saying that the letter was turned over to him by Mrs Kennedy June Jun 22 the day before Mrs McPherson staggered Into Agua Prieta Mexico in a state stat of collapse Cline Citric quoted Mrs Ken Ken- Kennedy Kennedy nedy as saying as she gave him the communication that she bad received It the th day before and was reading It over for tor the second time dine Cline In turn took the letter lettel to the postal authorities to lear front them where It was placed in inthe the tho mall mail i Inspector I the new follow facts i pet says discovered th the ing acts LImEn CEO JI of 01 was as placed p board a SO Pacific mall mail car June Tune 18 as a special delivery communication communication tion somewhere between Tucson Aria Ariz and El EI Paso Tex records show how It was delivered the evening of Juno June IS 19 to Mrs Blanche Rice an Angelus temple worker who signed for tor it it Further that when the turned over overto overto overto to Inspectors the special delivery stamp it originally bore had been substituted by a regular cent two cent It was pointed out the that that the com corn communication 1 would not have been de- de delivered de delivered livered until Monday June Juno 21 had hadit hadIt It borne born merely two two cent two stamps Ins Instead tend of or a special dell r stamp and one two-cent two stamp as asIt asit asIt It originally did Ti REPORTED ImpORTED Cline admitted last Jast night ht the Times says roys that postal officials had reported to him the alleged tampering with the stamps I 1 have hav had no opportunity to question Mrs Irs Kennedy about this he said and cannot say just what significance there mayor may or may not be in It Mrs Kennedy and Mrs McPherson McPherson son returned ye yesterday to Douglas Ariz to aid in the search for tor the shack In which the evangelist says she was was held captive e It was In- In Indicated In Indicated at the time timo they left lert that they would be back h hero ro some sonic time tonight BACK n IN IX ARIZONA DOUGLAS Arts Ariz 1 Dy l The Associated Press Aimee Press Semple McPherson Los Angeles evangelist accompanied by her mother Mrs Minnie Kennedy I ar- ar arrived ar Sr arrived rived here early from tho the coast city Mrs McPherson told news news- newspaper newspaper paper men that she had como to as- as assist as assist slat authorities who have been searching for tor a shack from which she said raid sho she escaped last week aft after er or being held captive by three thre kid kid- kid kidnapers A short time later Inter Mrs Mc- Mc McPherson Mc McPherson Pherson In company with Tom Simms United Stat States s deputy mar mar- marshal marshai marshal shai Leslie Douglas po- po police po police lice lieutenant Sam Hayhurst dep- dep deputy dep deputy uty s six sheriff the Rev James How how how- howard Howard ard photographer and ond a newspaper man and pho started east from rom here In Inan inan Inan an effort to locate the th shack |
