“ LOOK IN MY EYES.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17575, 27 June 1925, Page 8

“ LOOK IN MY EYES.”

GREEK FORTUNE. TELLER’S RUSE STOLE THE “ATMOSPHERE” i For Press Association. AIASTERTON, June 27. ‘‘These people have abused the hospitality which this country always extends to strangers, and that within a short time of their arrival. If I send them to gaol, the. punishment will be felt by their innocent children, but it is undesirable to have them living in the district ancl I accept counsel's word that they will leave it immediately.” T hus Mr Free, S.M., addressed two foreign women. Rachel Anna Krist and Mary Rosa Krist, when convicting them and ordering them to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months, on a charge of theft, arising out of an incident, which occurred in the Club Hotel, Grevtown, last Monday, when £4O was extracted from a safe. The defendants are members of a family of sixteen Greeks who arrived in New Zealand three weeks ago and since have been leading a gypsy life encamped on the bank of the Waingawa River, three miles from Masterton. and whose principal occupation has been scouting the countryside telling fortunes. The police stated that accused induced the licensee's wife to produce sonic paper money lo create an “atmosphere of the future,” and she disclosed a roll of £OO. One of the accused then commanded the subject to look Iter straight in the face. What happened after that is a mystery, but. some time after the publican found that £4O were missing. The women were waylaid at the Railway Station and almost all of the money was recovered. Accused pleaded guilty and agreed to make full restitution of the missing Tn convicting accused the Magistrate said that they must leave the district at once.