HOW THE PUBLIC ARE DUPED.
“DRUGLESS HEALERS” SENTENCED.,
Palmerston North, July 18. Frederick Huddleston, aged 20, and John Berentson, aged 29, the two principalcs of the Natural Health Institute (Manawatu) Ltd., who were charged before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., on Monday with being deemed to be rogues and vagabonds within the meaning of - the Police Offences Act, 1927, in that they imposed upon Olive Ida Willis by a certain false representation by stating that there was in Australia an “Australian Naturopathic Association,” thereby obtaining from her the sum of £3l 10s for a course of Naturopathy, appeared before the same Magistrate on remand for sentence this morning. In summing up, Mr. Stout, stated that there was no doubt that Huddleston was the ring-leader, and that he had no qualifications or training whatever to carry on the business of drugless healers as he had done in conjunction with Berentson, and had he gone on with this business many deaths might have been laid at his door. Huddleston was convicted and sentenced to reformative detention for a period not exceeding eighteen months, while Berentson was senleneed to reformative detention for a period not exceeding six months.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3820, 19 July 1928, Page 2
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195HOW THE PUBLIC ARE DUPED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3820, 19 July 1928, Page 2
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