FORTUNE-TELLER FINED
* POSED AS NUMEROLOGIST (fHESS ASSOCIATION TELEGHAM.) PALMERSTON N., August 10.. - Arthur Hill, aged 48, posing as a numerologist, was fined £3 in the Magistrate’s Court for telling fortunes. Police witnesses testified that they visited. defendant, who predicted certain events to happen to them. Defendant gave evidence that the principle of numerology was to take the name and birth date. Each letter had a numerical value. and interpretations gave an understanding whether a person would live constructively, destructively, or negatively through life.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21858, 11 August 1936, Page 17
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