The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-15
FINE JUST HALTS
SPIRIT REVELATION
Magistrate Corrigan Acts
Promptly When "Fortune
Teller" Starts on His Past.
CALLS HER A "wONDER''
Women Rush to Pay $15
Penalty Imposed Upon
Nine. Won de Lin.


Katie Won do Lin, known to the spirit
world as Nine Katherine Won do Lin,
Is wonder. Magistrate Joseph Corri-
gan told Katie In the West Side Court
yesterday what a wonder she is, using
those very words--"You're a wonder -
and whatever Joe Corrigan or any other
Magistrate says in court goes.
Even Miss Detective Maudo Leslie OF
tho STAFF OF Ellen A. O'Grady. Fifth Dep
uty Police Commissioner. had to admit
10 the Magistrate after arresting Katie
for fortune telling that Katie while
fortune telling had spoken much true
talk. Magistrate Corrigans enthusiastic
exclamation You're u wonder :" was
exclaimed partly because even the COM
planning lady detective had to confess
that Katie while fortune telling had told
tho detective some wonderful things
The admiration which Magistrate Corri-
gan felt for Defendant Katie was further
Increased by. the fact that Katie during
the hearing successfully contradicted
him on a point of legal procedure. Also
when the Mag strate ended the brief ses-
sion by fining Katie SIS he was further
impressed when number OF women
swathed in chinchlla, sable and expen-
sive trimmings OF the sort rushed for
ward and begged permission to pay
Katie's fine.
Read Scripture to Her.
When Katie was arraiEned before
Magistrate Corrigan yesterday Detective
Maude Leslie recited the information
that following some information that ha d
come to Police Headquarters the lady
detective had gone to Katies apartment
Mt 391 Central Park West and had asked
10 have her fortune told. Katie had
answered that she was not a fortune
teller but a Sprituallst, said the lady
detective in court. &c.,
Katie according to the testimony took
Maude into a dark room. and for fifteen
minutes read passages OF Scripture TO the
lady cop Katie felt Maude's pulse and
said Immediately that Maude had been
Suffering from rheumatism.
Il see Bridget. Who is Bridget" CUR
gled Katie, and Detective Maude said she
admitted that she had an aunt named
Bridget. Out of the silence came John"
then and the detective had to allow that
she had u brother named John.
''Yes." said Katie. Your brother John
Is in the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania
Division now in France. and you re-
ceived letter from him three days ago"
court yesterday that she had admitted to
Katie in the Central Park West apart
ment
'Now sec Isabella" Katie continued
according to Detective Maude's court
recital of the spiritualist'c converse
lions In which Katie summoned Maude's
sisters and her cousins and her aunts
You work with Isabella" And the
lady detective had TO admit to Judge
Corrigan as she had admitted 10 Katie
that Isabella Goodwin was her imme-
dlate superior in Mrs. O'Grady's office.
Lawyer Was Convinced.
Counsel for the defendant here broke
In with Information that added still more
IN Katie's laurels. Her lawyer said that
Katie. coming TO his office to engage
him to defend her had told him unknow-
able things about his son and his Law
partner, all of which had astounded him
Magistrate Corrigan was visibly i'm
pressed after these tributes 10 Katie's
fortune telling powers.
II believe you can tell the truth" he
said to the demure defendant. But
the testimony shows that you are guilty
of fortune telling. I must have you
finger printed"
Pardon me, your Honor said Katie
but II it please your Honor a Magis.
trate, according to n decision of the
3 Court OF Appeals, has not the power &c
have finger prints taken"
Magistrate Joe Corr gan thought q
minute and then retired TO his chambers
TO look up the law. Finally he came
out of cloud of cigarette smoke--some-
body had been smoking in his cham,
bers-and remounted the bench He an,
nounced then that Katie was right
Magistrate Corrgan told Katie that
after delvinS into the law. he had found
that he could send her TO an official &c
be finger printed, but that II she OBJ
jected to the process she could not be
compelled to Smudge her thumb.
Katie, with judicial authority backing
her original views, was led away e
have her finger prints taken. She told
the finger print man to go chase him
self, or words to that effect Then sh,
came back into court uningerprinted.
Judge just saves himself.
Judge" she said to young Magstrat,
Corrigan. sweetly. 'let me tell you
few events OF your past life. I shall be
gin with"
stop! Stop Stop stop! Stop CRIED
Magistrate Corrigan. who added after
second, stop"
"Please let me begin. your Honor
insisted Katie. with an incident which
occurred on the"