Ernest A. Renkert, witness in the Aimee Semple McPherson investigation, Los Angeles, 1926
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Text from negative sleeve: Reukert [sic], Ernest A. McPherson, Case., Text from newspaper caption: Ernest A. Renkert. Carmel coal man [photo standalone page "Interest Runs High as Aimee Semple McPherson Goes Into Court." Los Angeles Times, 28 Sept. 1926:A12]., Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds., Ernest A. Renkert was a delivery driver who testified that he had seen Aimee Semple at a seaside cottage at Carmel-by-the-Sea, contradicting Semple's story that she had been kidnapped and taken to Mexico., Related article "Identifies Evangelist as Companion of Ormiston: Delivery Man Declares She Was at Secluded Bungalow in Carmel; fingerprints Form Clews." Los Angeles Times, 27 Jul. 1926: 1. In this article the Renkert's last name is misspelled as Reinert.