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TELLING OF FORTUNES

AUSTRALIAN COMPLAINTS "CAUSING DOMESTIC TROUBLE" At the Police Court at Albury, New South Wales, lately, a man was charged with pretending to tell fortunes to deceive and impose upon a police officer. The police stated that numerous complaints had been received that people were engaged in fortune-telling, leading to domestic trouble. One woman was told that she would be a widow in six months, and another was informed that her hus» band was going out with a dark woman. A police inspector said fortune-telling , had caused considerable trouble in many homes, and, with the "assistance of the . Bqnch,, the police,, were determined to stop it. ... The magistrate said he would give thft defendant the benefit of the provisions of the Crimes Act and, bind him over in his own recognisance of £2O to be 'of good behaviour for 12 months, s•- * •

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 7

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TELLING OF FORTUNES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 7

TELLING OF FORTUNES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 7