UNUSUAL CASE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 136, 11 June 1938, Page 7

UNUSUAL CASE.

TELLING OF FORTUNES

CLERICAL COLLAR WORN. URGED TO LEAVE COUNTRY. i il<y To!pprnph.--Own Correspondent.) ! (HRJSTI IfTRCII, Friday. An unuMinl caff en inc before t he Christ - ' lui r «'lj Magistrate's Court when deorj»w >amuel Tli«iniM.n, known as the Rev. (V. S. Thomson and us Jhofessor Thomson. pleaded ]]<i| guilty to two charges of I'oruma telling. I Wonriiiy a clei i>.il collar and dp.«rribitij2 iiiniM-If a< » priest an<l metaphybioian, I hiim>oii said he was an accountant in lJunediu Rome years apo, and twice stoo.l . fur l'nrliumeiit tliorr ar. nn Indoricndent. Hμ said lie \\iis protiidont of the Anti-L'oiiM-riptioii !><'apuo on«-o, and wt»nt to paol then heciiuKr* h e wag unable to pay a line of L r >o. He left for Australia to I >tart ajr.-iin. and in 19H0 he was ordained, and anointed as a priest of llir» Liberal Ciitlmlic Church in M.'lSounio. Thomson was chnrfred with having told th<> fortunes of Police Ma trim Huliv Annnbell and Constable Cyril G«or£o Oadsby. They jrave evidfii.-e that ho had answered questions about their future and offered lu give th«m hoioßconc readings. Thomson told the magistrate, Mr. K. O. Levvey, after the evidence ha 4 been heard, that he realised that he was liable to conviction on the etatement* of th« witnessrrt, mid sn i,i lnu t he was willinj» to undertake to stop this tyj>e of wori, which he described ns -hack" work. H.' complained tiint he had Ixien persecute), whonae anothtr ma;i in th« <-i» v vas allowed to go free. Detect ivo-Sergeant Holmes Jhoinson if he anything to show that he was entitled to wear a clerical collar. Thomson said that his certificate «m in Melbourne, nnd he had eent for it He said that no la* could stop him using a clerical oollar or being called by the title of "r«verend." "I put it to you, it's a false pretence " *aid Detective-Sergeant Holmes. Thomson said it was not. The magistrate told him that if ho m willing to leave Xew Zealand no obstacle would be placed in hU way. He .aid that, provided Thomson left the country w'itljin say, 30 day* ho would not he ■ fined, but would be ordered to come up for sentence if railed on within fw . ' years.