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Fortune-teller has licensing charge dismissedThe city failed Monday to convict a fortune teller for predicting the future without a licence.The charge against a 29-year-old woman for operating an unlicensed fortune-telling business was dismissed in provincial court partly because the city bylaw wasn’t specific enough.In the bylaw governing home businesses there was nothing that said fortune tellers had to obtain a licence. Judge Allan James said.“It would have been much simpler for the drafters to spell out ‘fortune tellers.’ ”In a statement to police, the fortune teller said she sometimes obtained “donations” from customers. But “I don’t have a set fee . . . and nothing’s free. It’s a service I provide for people. I expect something and lot’s of time I don’t get anything.”The woman told police that sheCOURThad read cards and palms and had done handwriting analysis for many people, “city police included.” She said there were two other women in the city who read fortunes without being licensed to conduct a business in their homes.One witness testified she paid $10 to the fortune teller after having cards and her palm read. The witness, a police employee, was asked by a city detective to respond to an advertisement placed in a newspaper.Judge Allan James said he had a number of doubts about her guilt. One was that there was no evidence that she did not have a licence when she read the witness’s fortune July 6, 1982. She was not interviewed by police until more than a month laterand she told them that she had applied for a licence, but was refused.Also in provincial court, Tressa Anne Baillie. 31, of Wawanesa, was given a one-year suspended sentence for theft of a $3 rubber doll of E.T., the movie extra-terrestrial, and for failing to attend court.Brian Godssen, 23, of Calgary, was sentenced to the time in jail he had already served for stealing $10 worth of gas from a gas station on the Trans-Canada Highway. He was arrested Sunday morning after leaving the North Hill Gulf and Wayfare Service without paying.Vincent John Buddick, 18, of 745 19th St, was fined $200 for misleading police when he lied about who was driving a car which was involved in an accident. Buddick, a passenger in the car, diverted attention away from a juvenile driver who had been involved in a series of other driving infractions.I
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Brandon Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Tue, Feb 08, 1983
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