GIRL MIRACLE WORKER

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20786, 22 April 1939, Page 16 (Supplement)

GIRL MIRACLE WORKER

Healer’s Income of £75 a Week .... Sequel in Illegal Practice Charge

Green-eyed, chestnut-haired Andree replied. “And what I have done with Maurel, aged 15, described by scores the money is no one’s business but my of people as a “miracle worker,” own.” stood in the dock at Albi, in the South She was 111 of France, to-day charged with illegally It was stated that she was paid as practising medicine, says the Paris much as £7O a week by persons whom correspondent of the Daily Mail. she claimed to have cured. Maitre Puntous. who entered a In a long statement to the court she claim for £SOO damages on behalf of said that she discovered her healing local doctors, asked her: "Isn’t It power when she herself was taken true that you not only claim to be ill. “At 14 I had nerve trouble. The able to cure people by laying your doctor who attended me told my hands on them, but that you have mother there was some kind of fluid healed people by touching photo- in me which gave me the power to graphs of them?” heal the sick.” “That is perfectly true,” replied A stream of witnesses appeared Andree. throughout to-day, testifying that the “And you accept money for that?” girl had cured them, continued counsel. Judgment was postponed until April “I should be stupid if I didn’t,” she 27. ■ - ■ I