SPIRITUALIST CHARGED.
ALLEGED FORTUNE.TELLING. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, April 8. Jonathan Page, a well-known Spiritualist, was charged on six counts with ’ having undertaken to tell fortunes and three counts of using “Certain subtle means, to wit, simulated spiritualism,” .. to deceive and impose upon persons. • Mr. Sievwright, for the defence, applied that the case be taken as an indictible offence and sent forward to the •Supreme Court for trial by a jury. His client, as head of the Spiritualist Church in Wellington, looked on the case as an attack on him as pastor and on the church he presided over. The Magistrate, Mr. Hunt, said that as the evidence proceeded he might think it worth while to send the case to the Supreme Court. If so, time would be given to prepare the defence. After hearing the evidence of two police witnesses, describing visits to the gatherings presided over by Mr. Page, also to his house, where he told them certain thine* and they each paid him five shillim The case was adjourned till Monday afternoon.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1922, Page 3
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