WHO IS CARL ZENO?

NZ Truth, Issue 89, 2 March 1907, Page 8

WHO IS CARL ZENO?

Sentenced at Newtown Cenrt,

X)n \ September 3, 05898, two vmen,JPilliam Gorman, 23,. laborer (Amenr pah), and William . Dale, 23, rshowinan.(yactorian) were arrested by Seriibr-constable Mitchell and Constable. John Walker, and charged the following day ait ttie Newbown Police; Court, • Sydney, with ■ IEXPOSING. INDECENT, (PICTURES on the Newtown Bridge. The pictures were. in a penny peep show,! and consisted of a series of stereoscopic or magnified nude pictures, and for this offence they were sentenced to three moKjßhs'- -imprisonment. . In 1901 Norman showed up m HoIbart, where he residetl with a woman named Mrs Butters, better known as Madame O'Grady, lived dt 137 JGollins-street, Hbbatt. She, too, is a ohatlatan, and has teen fined several times for fortune telling. This iwoman taught , Nornian the clairyoyant business, and, m return, Norman, it-is' alleged, cleared! out. owing Her money for his tucker ; and Hobart is to i him, m consequence, as a sealed ibook. He next appeareVi hefore the (public gaze at Strahan, on the West* iCoast of: Tasmania, where he was (financed by a y man named Shrader, and, adopting the ■' sobriquet of' Car.l Seiio, launched out m the business »f>a thoughjb reader/ The two made' a little money. and Zeno, feeling his ifeet financially, , ° GOT RID OF SHRADER, who, -it is; understootl, went to New (Zealand. Zeno exploited the Tasmanian towns for all they were worth, and then went on to Melbourne, ,where he took a shop m Swanstonstreet,. and there met Mrs Raphael, of! whom more anon.