LONDON PALMISTS.
NEW POLICE MOVE FOE THEIR . SUPPRESSION. The London Commissioner of Police lws decided to tab© vigorous measures against tho host of fortune-tellers, CTystal-gazers, palmist', arid clairvoyants who have for some time past practised openly. in the West End and in the suburbs."
The scandal of the open, advertisements of tho fortune-tellers lias lately become increasingly notorious (says tho "Daily Mail"). Long lines of sandwich-men have paraded tho principal thoroughfares of the West End advertising this or that man or woman, with particulars as to the class of fortune-telling which tho soveral
"professors" practise. Recently detective-inspectors from Scotland Yard have visited all these charlatans, and warned them that if tlicy do not at onco removo tho notices from the windows or the doors of their premises, or if they advertiso in any other way, they will bo immediately proceeded against. The detective officers liavo also visited tho several newspaper and magazine offices which have published these fortunetelJinij advertisements and warned tho proprietors that if any moro advertisements of a similar nature appear they, tco, will be proceeded against.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1585, 31 October 1912, Page 5
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179LONDON PALMISTS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1585, 31 October 1912, Page 5
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