ALLEGED HUMBUG
ARRIVAL1 AT AUCKLAND
SETTING UP A CHURCH
fl!y Telegraph—Press Association.l
AUCKLAND, This Day.
A man who describes himself as "Professor J. H. Stevens, 8.5.L.V., London," and presides over the "Church of Spiritual Truth" was prosecuted today on charges of undertaking to tell fortunes and was fined £5 on each of The proseqution said that the defendant advertised addresses on spiritual personality and "the golden key to power" and "psychometry meditation for the sick." He told one detective that he was talking to the detectives dead, wife in spirit and that she said she did not commit suicide but fell over a log. Actually the detective married only recently and his wife was alive. Stevens came from Australia, where an allegation was made that he obtained . £150 from a woman by professing to cure her. He was now setting up a church here and drifting into fortune telling. He was only a humbug and lived in one of the best flats in Auckland. Stevens asked for time to pay the fines, and the Magistrate said he could have a few minutes .only. Stevens's wife arrived soon after and paid..
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1935, Page 11
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190ALLEGED HUMBUG Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1935, Page 11
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