“AN ACORN.”
BEAUTIFUL—BUT STILL AN ACORN. ■Auckland, Sept. 22. Two charges of fortune-telling and using subtle craft were preferred against Madame Currie, aged 52 years, at the Magistrate’s Court. Two constables gave c’ idei'ce as to consulting the recused. To one of them she was alleged Io have said, inter alia, “You are an acorn at present, beautiful to • old, but you are only an acorn, ami by exertion you will become a tree to support other acorns. Accoused’s counsel, asked for leniency, stating that the accused hud 15 children. The magistrate pointed out that she had twice previously been convicted and on one occasion had been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for pretctiiding to Maoris that she possessed supernatural powers in case of disease. In June last she was fined £5 for for tune-telling. She would be sentenced to 14 day’s imprisonment.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 241, 25 September 1922, Page 7
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