SELLING RUBBISH TO CREDUFOOLS.

Shannon News, 9 July 1929, Page 4

SELLING RUBBISH TO CREDUFOOLS.

“CHARACTER ANALYST” IS SENT TO GAOL. Arthur Herbert Buckley, character -umly-st and entertainer, well known in New Zealand, was on May 22, in Sydney, sentenced to three months’ hard labour for “using a certain subtle graft-, means or device, to wit astrology, • to deceive or impose on Eva Rosser.” Mr MacDougal, S.M., was caustic. ‘'Sidling rubbish, ” -he said, “to pool credulous fools—it's appalling to think such people should be knocking about. They should) bo locked up.” 1 Sergeant Pickard described how in response to an advertisement he dictated certain letters to Special Constable Eva Rosser and later sent then io Buckley. j In reply Miss Rosser received s chart, a book entitled “More Power,’ and an answer to a querry about mar riage. Buckley’s morning mail on one o-c elision contained 300 letters. In his defence Buckley said he w&; an electrical instrument manufacture and an electrical experimenter. He was at one time a floorwalker ii a Chicago store employing 400 hands. After travelling through' U.S.A., th< islands, and nearly every town in Aus tralia with over 3000 population, h . settled in Sydney. “I am not an astrologer,” he de dared, ‘ ‘ and I don’t believe in astrol ogy; but I claim to be able to rea-i character from handwriting, psysi ■ognomy, and other means.” At one time he was employed i; Harold. Lloyd studios to assist in cast ing characters for different parts. . He studied character reading unde McCormack, son of the American hai vester millionaire and received practi cal training in his thoatrical work as telepathic performer with his wife. He denied that he intended to d( ceive or impose on anyone. “The only' connection astrology ha with my work,” said Buckley, “i that I classify- all data I receive bv th signs of the zodiac.’’ H During his career he had receive® over a quarter of a million letter® from which lie was able to study cha® actor in handwriting. H Thousands of letters of appreciate® including GOO in one day, had been sei® to him from his clients. MB After studying Buckley’s charts anJH book, the magistrate said: “It’s palling to think people would bu® such rubbish. H| “The police,” he added, “give thfl| man a good character, but his whoMH life is a fraud. . JH Here is a man who collected 3(H| one and sixpences on one day fro|® poor credulous fools. It’s appalling.J® Mr. Beale intimated that his clieijl® would appeal against the conviction. |H