Subject: Kidnappings--California--Santa Monica - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of the affidavit of H. D. Hollenbeck, dual resident of Los Angeles and Welton, Arizona, given in concurrence with Aimee Semple McPherson's disappearance/kidnapping. The document puts forward Hollenbeck's sworn account of his whereabouts from May 18, 1926 through July 10, 1926. The document is dated July 10, 1926 and is signed by both H. D. Hollenbeck and a Notary Public for the County of Los Angeles.
Date:: July 10, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photocopy of the affidavits of Lorraine Wiseman and Miss "X" in regards to Kenneth G. Ormiston's stay in Carmel in the latter part of May, 1926 and in concurrence with Aimee Semple McPherson's kidnapping/disappearance. Both affidavits were sworn to the Notary Public in and for the county of Monterey on August 15, 1926.
Date:: [circa August 15, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Ormiston was the man that was suspected of having a romantic getaway with Aimee McPherson during her alleged kidnapping. In this document, he alleges that it was a different woman he refers to as "Miss X".
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Handwritten draft of Lorraine Wiseman and Miss "X" in regards to Kenneth G. Ormiston's stay in Carmel in the latter part of May, 1926 and in concurrence with Aimee Semple McPherson's kidnapping/disappearance.
Date:: [circa August 15, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Some text from the letter: "Mrs. Wiseman further stated that she could and would bring three witnesses to prove that she was the person in the cottage. Mr. Keyes asked who they were, and she stated that she would bring them. Upon Mr. Keyes' later repeated inquiry as to who the witnesses were, Mrs. Wiseman informed him that one was her son in university, one was a dentist and another was the man who drove her to and fro."
Date:: August 21, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Ormiston was the man that was suspected of having a romantic getaway with Aimee McPherson during her alleged kidnapping.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Lorraine Wiseman was a key witness in the alleged kidnapping case of Aimee McPherson.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Some text from the page: "Mr Keyes said he would have to call me later about that and asked if my sister had come. I told him I had seen my sister and that she saw the condition I was in and thought that he had been very severe with me and she did not think she could stand it. He asked me to go back to the Hotel and remain there until he called me. This was about 11:45. I remained."
Date:: August 21, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Some text from the page: "Mrs. Wiseman and myself called at the office of the District Attorney, Asa Keyes, at about ten minutes after ten on the morning of August 21."
Date:: August 21, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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