A SWINDLER SENTENCED.
CINEMATOGRAPH AS AN AID TO DECEPTION. PRETENDED APPARITIONS OP DEAD RELATIVES. By Cable—Press Associatiou-y-Copyright ; Received 3, 5.5 p.m. j Rome, May 2. ! Rosa Artu, charged with victimising Sand robbing villagers, was fined £2BO and sentenced to five years' imprisonment at Sassari. Five female accomplices were semtenced to lesser punishment. Tie evidence showed that the cinematograph, previously unknown at St. rßri, was* used in a dark cave for swind[ling the villagers, who paid hundreds of pounds for pretended apparitions of I their dead relatives. Others parted with ■ money ito avert calamities by means of Rosa's prayers.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 284, 4 May 1914, Page 5
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98A SWINDLER SENTENCED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 284, 4 May 1914, Page 5
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