RAWSON'S PLAYER-SHOP

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1924, Page 2

RAWSON'S PLAYER-SHOP

NKW YOHK. Oct. 31. Mr Frederick 1.. Hawson, described as si British Spiritual Healer, sician, etc,, died here oil Saturday evening from I‘neumonia. Mr Hawson had a remarkable career. The son of Sir Hawson Hawson, once a secretary of Gladstone, he, with liis two brothers, was at Westminster School. On leaving he entered Lord Brassey’s works ai Birkenhead, learning engineering under Baron Krlanger. Then he went to the City. Daring, handsome, with a remarkably ready tongue, and a winning voice, he opened a financial and company-promoting office in Cannon street. Ho also hern mo a partner in Woodhouse and Hawson, Ltd.. Manchester, and he formed a series oi companies with J'.l- '■^7. more Copper as the main Title. About 1910 he floated a company for the extraction of gold from sea-water. At another time he evolved a plan for the industrial, commercial, and moral development of Iceland, hut Iceland coldly rejected him. He formed also the Magic Hide Syndicate in DDE which was to exploit at fairs a revolving disc upon which people rode, only to la.* flung off. The syndicate went bankrupt. During the war lie established a house of faith-healing in Hegent St. where he prayed to save the relatives of clients from German bullets, using stock phrases, at £7 7s a week. He was reputed to be making £IOOO a week in fees when The Daily Mail exposed him, causing him to go to the titient- and scattering his staff. In^^®’ July 1922 lie had opened a pravershop in Paris. There is one in London now near the Marble Arch, and altogether he claimed to have 30 in existence in Europe and America.