FORTUNE-TELLING
A PROFITABLE “JOKE.”
(Per Press. Association.)
PALMERSTON NORTH, August 2. When two charges were preferred against Mrs Ivy Bayliss, in the’ Magistrate’s Court, of fortune-telling, her counsel stated that defendant all her life had told fortunes simply as a joke. Her friends asked her to do so, and, knowing her straitened dircumstances, left some gratuity. Payment was neverrequested. The police stated that defendant, a reputed fortune teller, had been forecasting the future, telling a lot of rubbish. She was fined £1 on each charge.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 August 1929, Page 9
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