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Show NO EVIDENCE OF CRIME FOUND IN CHURCH CASE NEW YuRK, Oec. 14. No evidence! ( erl.-.le ll:i.i l,eon found in the eam- !'i.iti.ii of sixteen witnesses In cbnnoc- tlon with charge n)adc by Campbell 1 McCullouch, former first render of ihe fit"' chnrch of Christ; Scientist, her.-. that certnin papers stolen from bis 'desk wte being used to harm him. ' Assistant Iris'.iicl Attorney R'orJu Stat- ' ed today. McCuJlQCh said he had resigned from thf . hureh In order that he might prcsfts'a" complaint of criminal I Ubel against two of lis trustees and ( sixteen other meinjiera. Sir" ftorlce said he hud r celvsd lm-i portahl documentary data for use in the Investigation, bur added thai It would be several da.vs before he could I determine whether thve mi suffl-i clent legal idence upon whieh to base' action. Regardin?: dismissal ,.f twenty-j six r its members who were reinstalled reinstal-led last week, h court action they in-' "tltuted was countenanced by Churchl counsej, the board of trustees of thi church, in n statement todav. declared. I it has been" the aim of the board! to keep the membership free from i all false te.-nMupps and to maintain the true standard n Christian Science as sei fortlfln the writings of Mary, Harker Kddy. J 'Those who have strayed from the tenets of our church and have adopted other teachings and practices inconals-ten! inconals-ten! with true Christian Science are1 dealt with In accordance with by-laws' which require that it shall be i,, the' matter set forth In the eighteenth Chapti r Of Mattfli w. fifteenth ne cnteenth verses." It had always been a custom statement said, to reinstate dlsmlasod Riembc, when proper and satis-' factory representations were madi I |