SPIRITS WERE REMISS.
"TRUMPET MEDIUM'/ CAUGHT.
BURGLAR AFTER DARK.
- LONDON, Jan. 1. : Frederick Tansley vMunnings, a; well-: known, spiritualist, and "trumpet medium," was sentenced at the Surrey Sessions :to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour for a burglary at Woking. The police captured him at midnight: as he was entering a house, whose lady occupier was staying at a boarding house in 'Hastings kept ;by Mannings' v wife. jl ; Munnings ■ started life as 'a clerk. Subsequently he kept a public house in Poplar, and was for nine years a member of the Poplar Board of Guardians, -of which Ihe was chairman in 1916.-, " • ■ His method as a medium ; in recent years caused much discussion in spiritualist circles. : A spiritualist periodical described him as "a mischievous medium of a low order.'* . _ Uv.VV . . Two previous convictions, for theft and false pretences, ; were proved 'against; Munningfl. ' - ■■. : f'-\. ;■:•■;' •.-'■?,"•■" . ; V : ;.' ... '■-■':■.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18294, 10 January 1923, Page 7
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