FORTUNES TOLD BY CARDS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 8

FORTUNES TOLD BY CARDS

WARNING FROM MAGISTRATE. Palmerston North, August 2. Through her solicitor, Mr. Merton, Mrs. Ivy Bayliss, of Palmerston North, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, to two charges of fortune-telling. Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., was on the bench. Mr. Merton stated that the defendant was crippled and practically an invalid, and her only means of support was a widow’s pension of £1 per week. She was a lady who had been in a considerably better position in life, and apparently ever since she was a girl at school, she had, more or less as a joke, told fortunes for her friends. Sometimes friends had called around and asked her to shuffle the cards, and sometimes knowing her position they had left something behind. She never asked for anything. . Defendant had been here about eighteen months, said Senior-Detective Quirke, and there was no doubt but that she was for-tune-telling—the usual rubbish about money coining and a man. She never made a definite charge, bnt took what was given her. Considering the circumstances, said the Magistrate, he would Impose a fine of £1 on each charge, but defendant must clearly understand that if she came up again she would probably get the maximum. To a request from Mr. Merton the Magistrate said that he saw no reason why the name should be suppressed.