THE MIDLAND DAILY TELEGRAPH

Coventry, Warwickshire, England

23 May 1917

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FINED FOR FORTUNE TELLING.

At the Marlborough Street Police Court, London, Mary Davies, aged fifty, described as an authoress and preacher, of 93, Regent Street, London, was fined 20 in each of two cases, and ten guineas costs, on a charge of pretending to tell fortunes. At a previous hearing evidence was given that the defendant was found seated on a throne wearing the Regalia of a Worshipful Master of Freemasons, a society called the Order of the Temple of the Orient was carried on. The defendant on Tuesday gave evidence denying that she had ever told fortunes for money. She had given spiritual comfort to people for the past twenty years. She made about £3 10s. a week.