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♦ DESCRIBED AS "ONLY A HUMBUG" (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, March 1. A man who describes himself as "Professor J. H. Stevens, B.S.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 each of two charges. The prosecutor said that the defendant advertised addresses on spiritual personality and "the golden key to power" and "psychometry meditation for the sick." He told one detective that he (Stevens) was talking to the detective's dead wife in spirit and that she said that she did not commit suicide, but fell over a log.. Actually, the detective was married only recently and his wife was alive. The prosecutor said that Stevens came from Australia, where the allegation was made that he had obtained £l5O from a woman by professing to cure her. He was now setting up a church here and was drifting into for-tune-telling. He 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 coula have a few minutes only. His wife arrived soon after and paid the fines.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21412, 2 March 1935, Page 5
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198FORTUNE TELLER FINED Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21412, 2 March 1935, Page 5
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