VERY MUCH ALIVE.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19346, 1 March 1935, Page 2

VERY MUCH ALIVE.

DETECTIVE'S WIFE. '.) Fortune-Telling Sequel IMPOSTER FINED £lO. ARRIVAL FROM AUSTRALIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association). AUCKLAND, March 1. A man who describes himself as "Professor J. H. Stevens, 8.5.L.V., London," and presides over the "Church of Spiritual Truth," was prosecuted to-day on charges of undertaking to tell fortunes. He was fined £5 on esjch of two charges. The prosecutor said defendant advertised addresses on spiritual personality and "the golden key to power," and psychometry, "meditation for the sick." He told one detective he (Stevens) was talking to the detective's dead wife in spirit and that she said she did not commit suicide but fell over a log. Actually the detective was marired only recently and his wife was alive. The prosecutor said Stevens came from Australia, where the allegation was made that he obtained £l5O from a woman by professing to cure her. He was now setting up a church hero and drifting into fortune-tolln><r. Ho was only a humbug and lived in one of the best flats in Auckland. Stevens, asked for' time to pay and the magistrate said he could have a few. minutes only. His wife arrived soon afterwards and paid the fines.