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John Knowles and Dan Warren are Yale's first defensive unit, and John Ormiston and Paul Fitzpatrick make up the second team. John Cole will be in the nets...
Police turned up evidence that, during the evangelist's absence, a cottage at Carmel, Calif, had been occupied for ten days by Kenneth Ormiston, the former Temple radioman (who was separated from his wife), and a lady with thick ankles and coils of auburn hair who strongly resembled Aimee. Back home at the Temple, Aimee met the attack of the lawmen by crying that it was simply another battle in "the age-old fight between the children of light and the people of darkness." But the outraged evangelist was formally charged with "conspiracy to com mit acts injurious...
...later, Aimee reappeared in Agua Prieta, Mexico, just across the border from Douglas, Ariz. She had, she said, been kidnapped, but how or by whom nobody could find out. There were suggestions that Sister Aimee was the veiled woman who had been seen at Carmel, Calif, with one Kenneth Ormiston, the radio operator at Angelus Temple. The case was brought to court but dismissed for lack of evidence...
Died. Kenneth G. Ormiston, 41, Los Angeles radio operator who figured in Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson's notorious 1926 "kidnapping"; after an appendectomy; in Los Angeles. Evangelist McPherson's story was that she had been snatched from a beach near Los Angeles, held captive in Mexico six weeks. The State spent $150,000 investigating the story, found five witnesses who testified they had seen her living at Carmel with Radioman Ormiston during the six weeks...
...There were numerous rumors, testimonies, statements and allegations, but there was no identification. Ormiston admitted being at Carmel at the time with a lady friend (not Aimee, he says), but declined to reveal the lady's name...