TALE OF BURIED GOLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18171, 17 August 1922, Page 7

TALE OF BURIED GOLD.

r ■ T™ — '■■ :■:■-;%•■; i '•■ ■t 7. ■ » ~" CLAIRVOYANT'S c CLAIM. I ' A TRANCE 'W">vjmj : J "' '?' 1 [JBO3S " OT»~~OWN "' COBBKT«Nbifer;3 f ,-'. i #''i'c''' ,'V^'SyDN*3.y^A'ua.'' ; ioVV" » Extraordinary evidence reading. boriedr^K 1 gold amoiintiag ,to ; many, ; tliousands;of ? pounds has been given 'iii Ceurt'-iiy, f>, ~,,• 9 widow, Mary Scales; in respect of her title I to certain property. She described hert self as a clairvoyant, and astounded the 7 Court by,gpin'g'off,into a trance;; I i! '.'_.. ; .. 6 Mrs. Scales alleged that wneiv&erihw- ,-! ;-y\ 0 band died « k he. ,i ftsld WPtth e £50,000 Witness saad^-iflas,.-f while; living aE*bhfield, ,and i ; ..-_ business as a clairvoyant,' she- took .- ;; - -.i husband down the?gardeny where sEeiaad *~-$ some money buried, and Av£J£%.W™j*. ground a box containing £12,000.; trf ,goia. She gave she had been arrested. on ;. business -as'la ; ':clairv6yaritr . V'l'-'"".~"i '',*.'' Cross-examined "plam'Jiiff sa*U'she H could.'..-.•. ; .-a - not read or write, and wcrked .- day to make the moneys < Hew hiosb^ndniade^:;:^, F his will while under the influence of two I.W.W. men, and at that timeT she-was ; drugged by her withf whom ;she;r,:'?'*?■ ' had not really lived for 2Q,-tears// as/he * «~". j had two other wives.; .She'loadiifeceivea -:-'-: 1 £6000 for her services as' ai received '■iwo' r ambunts .of '£2509, ; , 5 I being in $13,3M>» would iop^ ;the I man again ' who 7 "brbught 'the moneys';«& -■•■.."••* . '. she , would., his ■■ Irftye?;." *•; '* . amount of was-taken-* to'ifie races., i and lost by her husband, who stopped irif . all one night counting the gold. i Her husband hajdrjmt hereunder, a-iaes-, , meric influence fc* 39 years. . Thejy, hadi found bc : nmnbers' of"bccasioES that r ■ war would begin in 1914j-tih^ [ would 'flow with brbodj, there wooldvbe no peace till 1918, and in 1924 everything would be as it is-now. Whfte ~ mesmeric influence, she had been. ,uni fiv* I worlds, but did not get into the sixths as i; when she was going .thcreacloajk ?waa '< A " thrown over her and she';saw nothing. : (■• She knew the weight/of £12 l ,OoQ"_*in gold because t4io of them tried to carry- the " i bos and failed. ShV-haW carried^•£l2^ooo in notes in, A^de.£4oGO out i of, clairvoyancy ia some' years. i had savedj£lsQ# a year frjosn Vubl)ing~or"'"" "~ massaging. .-' k ~;;:'•.■ <\; s r* • To Qie amajseinient of Judge, barrisiers," ■ ' .. and everyone'hi Court, Mrs. Scales^s'ent • into a psychic trance during the hearing.-': ' She suddenly rose from the solicitors' table, and,:Vfithj,a fixed and vacant stare t in her eyes, her arms extended before . ' her, and her whole body rigid, she walked ! slowly and solemnly out of .the Court. : Before the apparently entranced 'aiedium reached the door of the Court, her women 1 fnends rushed to her and led her , out'' » side, where a' glass of water revived, her. ' She returned to Corart in her normal jcori' : '. ! dition, and the case proceeded. . - - -