Fortune Telling: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Judiciary...on H.R. 8989 |
Common terms and phrases
ABBATICCHIO amended asked astrology believe Benninghofen bill BLOOM Chairman claim clairvoyant Clara Barton COATES committee County court depose and say District of Columbia Doctor Hubbell Doctor Slade Doctor STRACK fact Fletcher fortune telling fraud fraudulent gentlemen GILBERT give Glen Echo HAMMER Harry Houdini hear heard HIAWATHA HOUDINI HOUSTON Hyrons investigator Judge Gould Julian lady lawyer license Lily Dale lost or stolen Mabelle Rawson Hirons MACDOWELL Madame MARCIA McLAREN MCLEOD means medium mediumship minister minutes Miss KEELEY Miss MACKENBERG Miss SAWYER National Spiritualists never Notary Public ordination PALMER palmistry person pretending police practice pretending to tell prophecy psychic question RATHBONE REID interposing religion SCHARBAU seance SEARS sell charms Senate slate slate writing spirit Spiritualist Church statement sworn talking tell fortunes teller TERRY things told trick trumpet WARNEKE Washington WEISS witness woman York
Popular passages
Page 43 - Persons pretending to tell fortunes, or where lost or stolen goods may be found ; 4.
Page 107 - three card monte," so called, or any other game, device, sleight of hand, pretensions to fortune telling, trick or other means whatever, by use of cards or other implements or instruments...
Page 153 - ... or upward, be imprisoned not less than one year nor more than three years ; or, if less than that sum, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
Page 153 - Every person who shall set up or keep any table or gambling device, commonly called ABC, faro bank, EO, roulette, equality, keuo, or any kind of gambling table or gambling device, adapted, devised and designed for the purpose of playing any game of chance for money or property...
Page 153 - Whoever, by any false pretense, with intent to defraud, obtains from any person anything of value, or procures the execution and delivery of any instrument of writing or conveyance of real or personal property, or the signature of any person, as maker, endorser, or guarantor, to or upon any bond, bill, receipt, promissory note, draft or check, or any other evidence of indebtedness, and...
Page 153 - ... or policy ; or shall, for himself or another person, sell or transfer, or have in his possession, for the purpose of sale or transfer, or shall aid in selling, exchanging, negotiating, or transferring a chance or ticket in, or share of a ticket in, any...
Page 4 - Advice, and summoned departed spirits to aid her in answering the complainant's questions, it was held that the evidence was sufficient to justify a finding that the defendant was guilty of telling fortunes, in violation of the statute, thereby constituting her a disorderly person.
Page 74 - ... shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $100 for each and every offense.
Page 74 - ... to find or restore lost or stolen property, to locate oil wells, gold or silver or other ore or metal or natural product, to restore lost love...
Page 153 - ... whoever fraudulently sells, barters, or disposes of any bond, bill, receipt, promissory note, draft, or check, or other evidence of indebtedness, for value, knowing the same to be worthless, or knowing the signature of the maker, indorser, or guarantor thereof to have been obtained by any false pretenses, shall, if the value of the property or the sum or value of the money or property mentioned or described in the instrument so obtained, procured, sold, bartered, or disposed of is thirty-five...