As the newspapers reported itThe Aimee Semple McPherson kidnapping case

As printed: Is Woman Who Claimed She Was With Ormiston at Carmel-By-Sea.

ContextAimee Semple McPherson, the Los Angeles evangelist, vanished from a beach in May and reappeared in Mexico in June saying she had been kidnapped; prosecutors have been probing reports that she was instead at Carmel-by-the-Sea with Kenneth G. Ormiston, her former radio operator. Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman, who came forward claiming she was the woman mistaken for the evangelist, is now held on bad-check charges, has won a writ of habeas corpus, and says a twin sister will clear her.

As printed: $5,000 FEE OFFERED FOR 'YARN' CLAIM

ContextAimee Semple McPherson, the Los Angeles radio evangelist, vanished from a beach in May and reappeared in Mexico in June saying she had been kidnapped; prosecutors have been probing reports that she was instead at Carmel-by-the-Sea with Kenneth G. Ormiston, her former radio operator. Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman, who came forward claiming that she and a sister, 'Miss X,' were the pair at the cottage, was arrested Friday on bad-check charges — and now swears in an affidavit that she was paid to tell the tale.