Wellington Supreme Court
FORTUNE TELLING AND SPIRITUALISM. (I'EB PBESS ASSOCIATION.) >VKLLUfQTOir, This Day When charging the Grand Jury this morning the Chief Justice in referring to the charges of fortune telling naid it was something extraordinary he should have cases of these kind before the Supreme Court. The statute provided a maximum penalty of a year's imprisonment for everyone who undertook to tell fortunes, but in England these cases were dealt with under the Vagrancy Act. In New Zealand, however, l'ortuue telling was an the indictable offence. In the charge against the alleged spiritualists he said the jury must be satisfied there had beeu conspiracy between the accused, that the sister was a go-con-: spirator with her br-other and not his dupo. It it was found the woman was a dupe, then the charge against the man would have to be altered f om cue of conspiracy to one of false pretences.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 330, 4 June 1894, Page 2
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152Wellington Supreme Court Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 330, 4 June 1894, Page 2
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