GIRL “HEALER" EARNINGS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 201, 30 June 1939, Page 2

GIRL “HEALER" EARNINGS

MANY CURES CLAIMED DOCTORS WANT DAMAGES GIRL ACCEPTS MONEY PARIS. April 10.—Green-eyed, chest-nut-haired Antlreo Alaurel, ngodi 10. described by scores of people as a “miracle worker.” stood in the dock at Albi. in tlie South of France,charged with illegally practising medicine. Maitre Pun tons, who entered a claim hr £d(.)U damages on behalf of local doctors, asked her: “Isn’t it true that you not only claim to be able to cure people by laying your hands on them, hut that you have healed people by touching photographs of them;-'” “That is perfectly true.” replied And ree. “And you accept money for that?” continued counsel. “1 should be stupid if L didn’t,” she replied. “Audi what, I have done with file money is no one’s business Imt my own.” it was stated that she was paid as much as ,£7O a week by persons whom she claimed to have cured. In a long statement to the court she said that she discovered her healing power when she horse I i was taken ill. “At 14 1 had nerve trouble. The doctor who> attended me toJcl my mother there was some kind of fluid in mo which gave me the power to heal the sick. ”

A stream of witnesses appeared testifying that the girl had, cured them, v ' •, .

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