A FORTUNE-TELLER.
FINES IMPOSED ON TWO CHARGES (Peb Unites) Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., August 2. When two charges were preferred against Mrs Ivy Beyliss in the Magistrate s Court, of fortune telling, her counsel stated that the defendant all her life had told fortunes simply as a joke. Her friends asked-her do so, and, knowing her straitened circumstances, left some gratuity. Payment was never'requested. The police stated that the defendant was reputed to be a fortune-, teller, and bad been forecasting the future, telling a lot of rubbish. She' was fined £1 on each charge.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20786, 3 August 1929, Page 16
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95A FORTUNE-TELLER. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20786, 3 August 1929, Page 16
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