Dupes Woman with Story of Fortune in Next World Charged with defrauding a woman named Mrs. Chu Wong-sze of $6,539 in both cash and jewellery, Ling Mo-sung, a fortune teller, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment yesterday by the First Special District Court.
By broadcasting that he was a fortune teller of world wide fame, Ling attracted the attention of Mrs. Chu, wife of a well-to-do business man. Mrs. Chu who thought that she had been neglected by her husband for sometime went to see Ling at the latter's place in Vu Yuen Road.
She was given some powder which she was advised to give to her husband. Her husband took the medicine but the medicine proved to be a failure. Ling then told her that she had a big fortune left in the "former world" and that if she kept burning joss paper money she could have it back. While asking her to do this he also asked her to give him cash continuously.
She began visiting Ling last June but many months later her husband asked her for cash which fact forced her to tell her the story about the fortune telling business. She finally went to Ling but could no longer find him. Ling was found recently by the police in a Canton Road hotel where he was squandering money on a girl
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