Shanghai, Jan. 12.
A Chinese fortune teller. Ling Mi sen whose obvious nim is fortune~ hunting, appeared in the First Special District Court yesterday charged with defrauding a woman of $6839 by contantly promising to return her the fortune she left in the "former world" andi then disappeared after obtaining Practically all the cash and jewellery she possessed. He pleaded guilty but Judgment! was reserved for a week. fas the police thought that. other women might have been victimized by Ling. similarly.
"he case dates' back 10 June of last year when Mrs, Chu Wong-sze, the Victim, heard a broadcast announcing "Professor Ling" as the best fortune teller in town, Mrs. Chu who blind been neglected by her husband for some time went to Ling's place in Vu Yuan Rond where she obtained some powder from Ling. She was asked to place the powder in a cup of tea and to ask her husband. to rink in order to revive his affection She did but there was no result.
She went to Ling many times but gradually Ling "thought to attract her by his ability to obtain a fortune. Asserting that his customer had left fortune in the "former world" as he was told by' the living Buddha in his house, he" asked the woman to make sacrifices before his god. by burning plenty' of Joss. paper money. While Ling constantly asked her to ay the fortune never came.
Recently, the woman's husband asked her to give him his money and she told him frankly about th fortune= telling business, When she went to Ling's place she found ho had moved to an unknown place. The police were informed but Ling was arrested only fon January 10 ina room in Central Hotel, Canton Road.
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