Tucson Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • 1

Mrs Kennedy and Party Will Pass Through In a iitg Revivalist into Auto By Aimee Semple McPherson Escapes From Abductors Who Were Holding Her For Money jan On Plea That Baby Was Dying Mr Minnie Kennedy mother of Mm Almee Semple lo Anitelen mayrlM wlio been miwln Mare May 18 lien she was believed to hare been drowned while swimming at Long Beach California will paa throngs Tnmon tomorrow morning at 8:85 o'clock on the Gohien State Limited en route lo Douglas where her daughter to reraperating In a hospital from hardships experienced la her escape from her captor She will be accompanied by llte chief of polled of Lm As grhn and by trader of the An grins Temple who will serve as a body-guard for the evangelist on tlie return trip to Los FEARS ATTEMPT WILL BE HADE TO HER DAUGHTER ASKS OFFICERS FOR ERS CUT BEAUTIFUL HAIR ffl TO MOTHER1 I WHITE 9 Oil By Captors and Rush-lexico Whence She Escapes and 1 on Foot to Border at Douglas Darling Said Missing She Says 1 bbs Mr 5 of her kid lie Associated (eiklbllfrg the burned scar) to mil me tell the easaer to question they said my mother bed asked to pro re that I was alive They threatened to' cut off this finger (the second finger of the right bead whirl has a long Al BE HAS ONLY TINY BUNGALOW FROM $30000 GIFTS MINISTER SAYS flTJEMPT JO Newspaper Men Or-jun ganize Party to Hunt Kidnapers while ms UtttMt so that as sooth vs Pars leach with isofir I want- last prepairg tip'-seicea to deliver tbat aerie tT went LOS ANGELES June 23 Mr Minnie Kennedy shortly before 8 today talked over the long distance telephone with the woman in the Douglas Ariz hospital be-A lieved to be her daughter and as she hung up tbe receiver said is my daughter Aimee Semple McPherson-v -Qjj hei0 my darling mother Yes were the first words of Mrs McPherson this morning as she talked to her mother Airs Minnie Kennedy in Los Angeles home over long distance telephone I am not injured I am not hurt I am so awfully weak mother and I cannot talk very loud Yes I hear you sweetheart "Yes the two men cut off my hair honey they said they were going to send it to you to prove my identity No sweetheart I am not hurt They did not injure th-) er weald know when she received "Tt' that they did bar captive -I refused to talk I did answer tf) flrvj Dint Aft 1 would escape on question but I would not arsrer '-IVCII IU UUU i UICU Th-re I changed th reef slipped on She was asked if ah had been haefer and abused i -iE9 clam chow- "So" she replied woman Ross 1 tried to nice to me I prayed eon- li t-t on to the atantly and talked to them of Tod! Dot LAS Aria I rec-d a little I'll bet they were tired of hearing my my people that the Church of the fe't Ir raimmlng I preaching" Four Square Gospel Is going ahead Bm 1 hall soon hare raised the need-1 th music Hh overhearing contestations of my ab- I fr into th duetors they had planned to make C00009 o'" ho1 tu'iurg After a away wrlth either myself my da ugh- train missionaries snd workers" said Sz Schaefer re- ter Roberta or Mary Bickford the ime Semple McPherson famous Preacher Avers --Ten Walks to Border Then Collapses to Douglas Hospital in Ecn ely piece and: ide Si airs no icrr at car i arou I 1 St yi xii S3? irt im rr ic? is DOUGLAS Aria Jon Chief of Police Percy Bowden of Douglas with officers of th city police force early begs conferences with the 4 tht liken moving picture metres They in4eluti recoerlnc In a hospital LAST DEMAND FOR RANSOM MONEY WAS TO HAVE BEEN MADE FRIDAY the state of Sonora with regard to making a search for th abductor vr of A rree Semple McPherson AIMEE SEMPLE HePHERSOT Aime Semple McPherson famous evangelist who escaped from abductors and walked to Agua Prieta Mex collapsed and was taken to Douglas Arizona Hospital DOUG 3 Aria June Si "From certain portion of th conversation of my abductors which I overheard while they had me In their power I believe that they were to make a fi- oal appeal to my mother for ransom money This was the statement of Mrs Aimee Semple McPherson this mom-searcher "Pleas tell all of these 70 poliee- men and firemen who were In my understood they had been writing my mother letters Ask my mother If aha got let'ers She must have received them for when she was talking to me on the phone her jnst cow she asked me If th men had cat off part of my hair Tea they did cut it off They aabl they were going to send It to my mother" When Mrs McPherson was talking to her mother on the phone she said to her: "Tell th chief to com with yon Tell him be eds a rest I (want him to come" DOUGLAS Ariz- Jun Poaitire Identification of a woman In a hospital here as Aimee Semple McPherson Los Angeles evangelist who was reported drowned there May IS last a as made over th telephone by Mrs Minnie Kennedy th evangelist's mother tn conversation with William McCafferty editor of the Dispatch this morning Identification waa established through a long white scar on th second finger of the woman's hand and also by her giving tha name of a pet pigeon She told the name of her pet pigeon when the was five years of ag Th name was Jennie Sha told that she waa Injured on her second finger of the right hand In Durham township near IngeraolL On tar la Tha mother gave th same information She told of th name of her cousin Mrs Emma Nickerson who died of cancer Her mother told the same story Word received her by th Douglas Daily Dispatch says that Mrs Minnie Kennedy mother of Mrs Aims Semple McPherson in Los Angsies has received tbe strands of hair cut from the head of her daughter Aimee Semple McPherson sow aafe In a hospital here I cam planned to kideep another I There were picture actreaa whoee name Here I was Tn- not said Mr 1 1 had Jjl recently this morning ceremony for "Jfy abductor threatened to give me or sell me to a Mexican called Fe- 'Every dollar that I have klaia Then one day after they had raied except that for my tiny little A number of American and Mexican tj water lust burned with cigar In an attempt bungalow on Sth avenue has gone are now la Mexico making a I Mhie I was to force me to tell my story brought to mr chprch It has gone into steel rcb the area her Mrs Me Ilftri rn one call- great hulking Mexican quit nd concrete No not for a monu- I Wat an- arl1 whom they said was Felipe I mMlt to Aimee Semple McPherspn fel bee- recognised think It was a bluff The man named but for a monument to God and hi i Steve was the one who burned me good work Here She had "They told me this Felipe waa from jf bad been killed my -ork brou eyes and Mexico City 1 bad never aeen have been carried on Those I ietij stollc type before I had never aeen any of niypar strf all made Th only other lbt t-r baby was abductors before property beside my home that I own wanted me to Oreea May Be Cla Jar the lota on the hill that th gyp- it cot want to go "I believe tbat my abductors got sles gave me biiinand had tha the dres that the woman called Rose I have lived a plain life 1 am a I Pi- a coat gave me a dais or so ago to wear worker for God After I built my I -o th car from some part of th country near church my people gave me J900 I at th aide here" believe that the gifts peopl giv to cd I be levs a The mnd-atalned garment worn by evangelist are given without any inelde the car Mrs McPherson when she fell ancon- strings attached to them But whll jfb wag tbs baby la sclous at tha gate of a Mexican rea- tome might put th money into oil idenc In Agua Prleta Sonora waa a wells Into mines Into property I plain cray gingham one Kurae In look that $30060 and gave It to God-jM krew I was push- the hospital her recall that tlww Insulted a that she tn Ia8t pIac (rldenty floor- The was sal of such dress at a ocal In station Inth church the Tour I uu fop Pherson waa believed to have been held prisoner Folsom Moore General manager of th Btsbe Review Georg Speer city editor with Police Officer Patterson of this city headed another group of They left Douglas at 1 I Ura McPherson ha given lucid de- i temple before I was kidnapped to watch my little gtrL I am so afraid they will attempt to kidnap her MAN WHO WROTE BIG STORY VET OF WAR A DOUGLAS EDITOR FIRST TO MAKE IDENTIFICATION OF EVANGELIST about four days Eh believes tbat ca 20fcg DOUGLAS Ariz June II John of frogs beside her bed when rh wss Anderson the American who brought a child ting to and many Mrs Aimee Semple McPherson across othsr intimate things McCafterty th International border this morn- had A A Sudin place a special tele- DOUGLAS Ariz Jun William Fraley McCaffeyty editor of th Douglas Dispatch who earned a place In tbe annals of news-gathering being able to Identify Mrs Semple McPherson missing evangelist and to "break" the story first to Associated Pres neaspapers was born In the south and was educated In schools In Virginia and West Virginia Leaving West Virginia university he went to after escaping she must hav ran and walked a distance of I miles According to a diagram she drew wheB app! the home of Htnt CHOPPED OFF DOUGLAS Ariz- June 23 Aimee Semple McPherson is alive and In Douglas Her beautiful hair chopped off by her abductors two men and phone betide Mrs McPbersonV he in th hot pi tel tbe coaid talk to her mother Square Gospel Angelos Temple so Rw (he Escaped my people everywhere could tg enough The) "Hovrdid I escape? Oh how fool-jhear my voice over me ish of ns to have overlooked that m' a tweet i "I had been In th last place where Scotland to know that I am alive al- (her a they took me for about three or four though here on a bed In a hPitL 0 remark soto days I believe I waa hysterical I Tell tbe peopl of England and Scol- franflc I could not remember day land that I am alive- Glv them my 1 Ut 1 knew until I'l did not know what day It was I blessing White bed ik What day this? Friday? have our school I J'h room with a waa It I waa abdutted? On have worked for my church and my closed th ixth Of Mav What a terribly people God blesa them God bless -y closed I the llth of May What on paper the went a distance of about ten mile through the cacti and sagebrush toward a mountain Police of Douglas and Mexican officers believe tbat th mountain to which she walked waa Nigger Head In Sonora al tha mountain Mrs a Mexican family there for help wa at first skeptical that th woman was the famous evangelist Later she told him who she was and Anderson was later firm In hla belief that she waa Mrs McPherson William Fraley McCafferty editor of tbe Douglas Dispatch was tha ma Hot Off the Bat Xortts- a woman bedraggled muddy tired work In Fairmont West Virginia so fatigued eh 1 shaking and quiv- Later in search of newspaper ex-erlng so frightened eh can hardly perience he worked on a dally paper talk tha famous evangelist Ilea in a I every eity in West Mrginia Later bed In the Calumet and Arisons hos- pltaL here with police guarding her to prevent her re-abduction Dakota California New Mls- Tb famous evangelist of th aotirl and Colorado square gospel" who mysterious He was a member of th American disappearance from th Ocean park expeditionary force In Fran'-- and a California beach on May 13' was on the staff of the second corps I he worked oft papers In Penns) I vania New Tork Maryland Ohio vomiting The terribly horribly long time that has you alL Ross was bean After my captor got me in "I have chosen people gave to me to th work of I God" not know (Continued on Pag TwoJ NATIONAL UArZ Philadelphia at New Tork double-header postponed rain McPherson barely able to drag her self along fell tlm after time from ldentlfld exhaustion She found a fence fol- alkd nto htr hoPUal room lowlnff It towards road Prom road sha followed the glare of lighta to thle city oB recognized aim from previous meeting in Denver fol I 09 waiaea mio ner nmpiiai rwra in company with Chief of Folic Percy! ghta 'Bowden he cried: Is Mrs MePher- I anM anil ah panFn lead i lit fprilTI when day or not I 5 th morning 8 MliUea they wanted of At Boston (First gams) Brooklyn 000 000 Boston 000 000 111 Petty Erhardt and Hargreaves O'Neall Benton and Gibson waa bolding services in that city She talked with him about th time the cured by faith a mas in Chl- Chnrehes Celebrate Chnrehes In Douglas are holding praise services this morning for the school at xde was a member of th first American training Cadre startled th world when tt wa be was drowned tells coherent story of her abduction She escaped from a shack In Mexico about noon on Tuesday so she estimated My Kingdom for a Bid Without Any Takers bT re holding me Ml scape and safe return of Aimee Sem- I patown In Denver recalling that It At Boston Man Sent Up From Pima Escapes Pen pi McPherson Peans of prats are being aung and prayers offered up Hundreds of curious hav gathered about tha hospital where she Is being cared for No one la permitted to enter her room hav talked to mr mother I can have no other telephone calls she said waa the day tRe believed tbat Jack Dempsey won the championship) Mrs McPherson recalled tha ppm of another Denver newspaper writer and talked about the time th Denser Poet entertained her at a picnic nd j(t Cincinnati of how they got paper to her before Chicago 010 OOI 0 they left the picnic grounds carrying Cincinnati 001 00 1 pictures of th event I Hoot and Gorzales Luqu ard Har- Mrs Minn! Kennedy mother grave Aimee Semple McPherson will leave Brooklyn BOO 209 11 Boston 001 200 00 MoWeenev and ONell Goldsmith Graham Smith and Taylor ra ransom I Jer foolish that I money that rhilL Theyre- i-ntr i waa Urto- Later they 1 P'-ana to get remarks I 1 rned that they re'l In San make ar-money ate from th position of the eun and ran as rspldly as her condition would permit for miles and miles Becoming exhausted she dropped tlm after tlm to the ground Fi- i nally sighting a mountain which has been Identified by officers her as the famous Nigger Head mountain about Abrahlra 15 miles from this city south in So- the -tale "eptlary JaM yenr to nora Mexico she headed toward 1L rTe nt-nce dn a burIsiv Reaching the mountain about dusk cbarg from count rzpJ from FIRE LOSS IMMM she located a and struggled I Institution Monday local canned food St' "A plane a plane my kingdom for a wa the cry which came over the Citizen Associated Press wire this morning when the big story of the escape of Mrs Aimee Semple McPherson from the rendezvous of her kidnapers in Mexico "broke The Associated Press bureau correspondent at FUoe-nix desired the airplane to over to Douglas order to be able to personally handle the story Inquiry developed the fact that the only plane in Tucson was out of commission as the result of the accident several weeks ago when itjell while carrying two passengers one of whom was killed Cliff Maus local commercial aviator said that the nearest plane to Tucson was one at Safford too far away to be of im- mCd Tuc sonans'le a med of the big story in record time through a Citizen extra look at a can 11 few 010 ooo Gooch At St Louis-Pittsburgh St Louis Song" and O'Farrell day ago I Haines and fcr along as well arf her meagre strength auf horltf informed todpv would permit falling time after time rrv 1 only to be Immediately revived al member 2 1 1223 u-idr entenj of fear of recapture and pressing on I 15 AVrh Zarate eapd and on towards what she thought to Antnnlo roas eri ortf tur be the west Later she was able tofbrrary In id drHand see great patches of red light as the Jwsu Lorrorjue also -entne night wore on and these were later for burglary Los Angeles today at noon on the Gold-n State Limited over the Southern pacific for Douglas her will come the chief of pollc Los Angeles Mrs Kennedy fold William Fraley SlcCalfeur editor -f tbe Dispatch over long distance tel-phone that the birth mart on her children's bodies as described bv Mrs McPherson Mrs McPherson to(j of having taken a colt Into her borne atomoblles Then should Ima- te Co nc TRINIDAD Colo June Almost a block of buildings on the main street of Trinidad wfs swept by fire earty today The loss is estimated ut between 17300 and 1000uo The blaze is believed to have started in the kitchen of a restaurant at It spread to seven business build Ings destroying or partly damaging1 them Th fire was breght under control later this morning L' Corructlon toss The men (Th AMERICAN LEAGIE At Cleveland 010 000 2 Chicago 101 062 0 Vhle and Mvalt once when a child of having a buiket jCfoufe fc AkS identified by police here as the glare not Th offens tor whi-i Zarat 8ntnr'd hm tl 1m rc 9 horn ouh sr fV tty ad (Continued on Page Two) as the other had finger.