CLAIRVOYANTE SENTENCED.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1651, 18 January 1913, Page 6

CLAIRVOYANTE SENTENCED.

AMAZING' CREDULITY. '/ ~

In his play "Credulities." M. Bonicroj.j ~ brings on thostago a family,'every mem- ..' ■ ber of which, has his or her pet feupersti- y;„ tiori. So extravagant .were thesd!"crcduli;, ties" that they taxed-tho credulity of ,'tho . ; audience; but truth is wilder oven than', the comcdy.,,of M.mßenioresx' .ffhfKCourt''w|j of Appeal at Orleans hasvjust-cendemncd :,\- to : thrce years' imprisonment a clairvoy-:?''■'■'" ante who must-have', possessed at, least an uncanny insight into character,'for''she ■ duped so, many and to such n plausible > . degreo that a young w : oman suffering from an abscess in the arm 1 cheerfully paid down.£3oo for. this delightful prescrip-v .. Hon: "On leaving, my house," , ordained, ~■;-, tho clairvoyarite oracularly,, 'you. 8ha11,,. touchwith your injured, arm the tail of. (l , tho first animal you,encounter, and tho, evil will pass from you into it. ~ , : .'.„-. Her next patient'was a lady whose complaint sho diagnosed as. "tuberculosis of ( tho heart." This'obstinato malady eho-, did riot euro, but her treatment _wns sue-,..- . . cessful' in combating any tendency to . ■ . hypertrophy in the patient's purse; ins 'a tender spot in her heart for lovers, I- ■ -. sho only claimed £i 0 from a full-blown , ,!• matron who desired tho kisses of ,a young., - man. A wretched gardener was frightened | . , out of his wits, and his savings, by tho : , dire assurance that ovil.spirita wero onhH; v . , tracks, aud could be, conjured by,boiwr,,,. . enclosed in the skull-of a dead man. by,.-...-. tho five members of the Council, of tho Laws of NnttirV, whoso august co-opera-tion the clairvoyanto promised, to obtain. Finally thero was b. butoher. who for .« received an exclusive "tip about _-tho price of mutto* jn six months time,- , upon it, and was rmnedrand tho extra-, ordinary thing is.tlmt, with the exception ■■ of the mitchcr,'ail her dupes still remain; devout Ijeliovers, in her powers.—paily. . Tolcitranh." .-■■ --- ;