THE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER

Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland

23 May 1917

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FORTUNE-TELLER FINED.

Remarkable London Case.

At Marlborough Street Police Court, London, yesterday, Mary Davies, aged 50, described as an authoress preacher, of Regent Street, London, was fined £20 in each of two cases and ten guineas costs on charges of having pretended to tell fortunes. At the previous hearing evidence was given that the defendant was found seated on a kind of throne, wearing regalia similar to that of a Worshipful Master of Freemasons. It was stated that a society called the Order of the Temple of the Orient was carried on. Defendant yesterday gave evidence denying that she had ever told fortunes for money. She had given spiritual comfort to people for the past twenty years, and made about £3 10s per week.