A FORTUNE-TELLER’S DUPE.
At the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court, before Mr 11. Boetham, S.M., Enrly Weaver, a respectable-looking middleaged woman, charged her husband, George Weiver, with having failed to provide her with emails of subsistence. Mr McConnol appeared for the defendant. Mrs Weaver stated that they had been married twentythree years and had seven children. Her husband had for a long time illusod her,
aud a fortnight ago had beaten her. On account of this she left him, and now asked that he should be ordered to contribute to her maintenance. In answer to Mr McConnel, she said it was true that she had been in the habit of consulting fortune-tellers, who told her certain things concerning her husband which aroused her jealousy. About fourteen months ago she dressed up a doll and served it up to him at 'breakfast. He then struck her. She brought him up before the court, and he was bound over in Es own recognisance of £lO to keep the peace. Since then she found that what the fortune-tellers had told her had come true, and her life had been very unhappy ever since. The women she consulted were named McCallum and Noble. The last-named lived in Victoria street. Mrs Weaver made other serious statements concerning her husband. For the defence, Mrs McConnel called George Weaver, aged twenty-two, son of the parties, who stated that he was present at the time of the alleged assault, which was wholly imaginary. His father was steady, gave his wife all his earnings, aud did not illuse his wife. They might live very comfortably but for the jealousy of his mother, who occasionally left her home on that account. The defendant gave a good deal of evidence as to the peculiarities of his wife : her suspicions were totally unfounded. Mr Beetham said it appeared to him that the woman, who seemed weak mentally, had had her mind unhinged by the persons who called themselves fortune-tellers, who fostered her delusions. He would make no order and recommended that the circumstances should be laid before Inspector Broham, who could see his (Mr Beetham’s) notes.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2696, 9 August 1894, Page 3
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352A FORTUNE-TELLER’S DUPE. Temuka Leader, Issue 2696, 9 August 1894, Page 3
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