ROAD HEALERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 9

ROAD HEALERS.

THE SEQUAH COMPANY

WHO WAS THE PRINCIPAL? A WOMAN'S EXPLANATION. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) GORE, this day. ■- "My husband only laughed whenever "'he read in the newspapers that Sequah, the travelling healer, had died," re- : marked the widow of Mr. Charles Frederick Rowley, who died at Balfour last week, and who was then claimed to be Sequah, the one-time world-famous healer. Since the death of Mfc Rowley at 70 years of age publicity has been given vto the fact that London newspapers announced the death at Southampton in 1934 of Hannaway Rowe, aged 93, who ..was claimed to be the original Sequah. When this statement was referred to j'-Mrs. Rowley she stated .that she had been acquainted with Rowe when travelling with her husband in England. Rowe, she believed, had been an employee of the Sequah company, of which her hus,band was a principal. Rowe had retired from the employ of'the company and had purchased a small cbeinist's business in Southampton. When the travelling doctor trade was at its most prosperous stage several wagons were on the road in various parts of the world, and several employees were engaged to act as Sequah—to conduct the treatments and demonstrations and to dispose of Sequah remedies'. On more than one occasion in recent years the death of Sequah has been announced and corrected, and during the war a London newspaper became involved in a libel action when it announced the death of Sequah in poverty in South Africa. Mr. Rowley remained a principal of the company throughout its existence, and continued to practise >as Sequah until his retirement a few years ago. Therefore his wife contends that he had a prior claim to the name over other employees of the company.