FORTUNE-TELLING
FRESH HOPE FOR THE "PROFESSION." London, October 25. It is understood that the police will not appeal against the decision in the recent fortune-telling case.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [A decision given by Mr. R. V. Ban Ices, a South-West London Magistrate, upset the traditional attitude of the Courts towards fortune-tellers. A woimm, who had charged four shillings for n consultation, held a bracelet to her forehead and described future happenings which, sho pleaded, spirits predicted. The woman pleaded that she hud studied Spiritualism for twenty years. Mr. Banlies, in dismissing th? charge, said: "I cannot say whether it is possible to foretell the future, but I' am convinced that the accused Relieves she poses°es that power. Therefore there was no intention to deceive.! [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as one who "lias utterly convinced himself of the complete truth of the Spiritualist position," in a foreword to Mr. Allen Clarice's "The Eternal Question: 'Are the Dead Alive?" writes: "I have been told recently of a clairvoyant, who nave 2-1 correct descriptions of Bnirito in one day, all of them recognised In- someone in a crowded Manchester audience, the name and address of tho deceased being given in each case, and the residences covering aV area of 'HI miles. Tin's was a very wonderful and convincing exhibition of clairvoyance, yet. the clairvoyant wis a bargeman by trade and the control an old Irishwoman. Now, i»-. ever, it is the humble who are exalted in the things of the spirit."]
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 28, 28 October 1919, Page 5
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247FORTUNE-TELLING Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 28, 28 October 1919, Page 5
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