CLAIRVOYANT'S GOLD

Shannon News, 14 May 1926, Page 2

CLAIRVOYANT'S GOLD

li&OlSAX'jr YYIIU'S I'UKTU'JNIa:" LONDON, March 13. A womaiv who could neither read lior write (beyond signing her own name), yet who made 60.000 as a clairvoyant in Now South Vv alt* was an appellant UU'ory the -Judicial .Committee of the Privy Council >e>lorday. , n „„ in( , t Her claim for tins amount against the executors of her lale J^oand had been dismissed by the Supreme Court of New South Wales "The judge then found that me £50,000 had been earned or saved by the woman, but that she had given. it to her husband. The widow,*!** Mary Scales, said the money was held by her husband for trust. Mr G. Lawrence;- K.C tor Mib Scales, said that for seven years husband, wife and three children lived in a rough shed built by her

husband, and "then for" another ten years in a house also built by him. Till IS97' Mrs Scales kept a laundry business, combined with hawking honey and dealing in rags, bones and bottles. / Then she opened a parlour in The Arcade, Sydney. First she was a beauty specialist, but the business soon extended and mainly consisted of clairvoyancy, , coupled -with some kind of faith healing. It was brought to an end in 1918 by police action. She claimed to have foretold the Great War at a seance in December, 1912. Mrs Scales, said counsel, dug up £12,000. in gold, which sh e had hidden in the garden. The hearing was adjourned.