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HomeMy WebLinkAboutO-08620SRS:tb ORDINANCE NO AN ORDINANCE REPEALING CHAPTER 28(SEC- TIONS 28.1 THRU 28-5) AND SECTION 30440, AND DELETING CERTAIN CLASSIFICATIONS CONTAINED IN CHAPTER 30, ARTICLE III, SEC. 30-28 OP THE COD OF THE CITY OP MIAMI, FLORIDA, AND ENACTING A NEW SEC- TION 30-20 OP SAID CODE PROHIBITING ANY PERSON PROM ENGAGING IN BUSINtSS PRACTICING, PERFORMING OR HOLDING HIMSELF OU1 TO THE PUBLIC FOR A PEE OR COMPENSATION (1) AS A PERSON ABLE TO TELL FORTUNES; OR, (2) AS A PERSON ABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS OR GIVE ADVICE ON PERSONAL MATTERS, OR TO EXORCISE, INPLUENCE OR AFFECT EVIL SPIRITS OR CURSES, BY CLAIMED OR PRETENDED USE OF OCCULT POWERS, FACULTIES OR FORCES, CLAIRVOYANCE MEDIUMSHIP, SPIRITUALISM SEERSHIP, ASTROLOGY, PALMISTRY, NECROMANCY, PHRENOLOGY, NUMEROLOGY, CRYSTAL GAZING, CARD READING, TALISMANS, CHARMS, POTIONS, MAGNETICISM OR MAGNETIZED ARTICLES OR SUBSTANCES, ORIENTAL MYSTERIES OR MAGIC OF ANY KIND OR NATURE, OR BY ANY MEANS OR ANYTHING OF A SIMILAR NATURE; EXCLUDING CERTAIN RELIGIOUS, NEWSPAPER AND AMUSEMENT ACTIVITIES FROM THE APPLICATION HEREOF; PROVIDING A PENALTY; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES, CODE SECTIONS OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT, INSOFAR AS THEY ARE IN CONFLICT; AND CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY PROVISION. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA: Section 1. Section 30-20 of the Code of the City of Miami, Florida, which is quoted, as follows, is hereby repealed: Sec, 30-20. Fortunetellers, palmist, clairvoyants, hypnotists, etc. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of fortuneteller, card reader. palmist, clairvoyant, hypnotist, spiritualist, phrenologist, crystal gazer, psychoanalyst or any other similar business in the city without first having filed an application for a business license on the prescribed form with the director of finance, which shall include the address where the applicant operated such business or a similar business during the past two years, and without first having been photographed and fingerprinted by the police department, No license shall be issued until the applicant has pro= vided the director of finance with the report and recommendation of the record of the applicant by the chief of police, Section 2. A new Section 30-20 of the Code of the City of Miami, Florida is hereby enacted as follows: Sec. 3O-20. Certain NPec4patiot"1g prohilited : It shall be unlawful for any person to 5_ engage in business, practice, perform or hold himself out to the public, for a fee or com- pensation (l) as a person able to tell fortunes (fortune teller), or, (2) as a person able to answer questions or give advice on personal matters, or to exorcise, influence or affect evil spirits or curses; by claimed or pre- tended use of occult powers, faculties or forces, clairvoyance, mediumship, spiritual- ism, seership, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, phrenology, numerology, crystal gazing, card reading► talismans., charms, potions, magneticistn or magnetized articles or substances, oriental mysteries or magic of any kind or nature, or by any means or anything of a similar nature No City of Miami occupational license or permit shall be issued to any person to engage in such •occupations. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to apply to (1) the customary religious activities of churches and ecclesi- astical or denominational organizations or established physical places for worship at which non-profit religious services and activities are regularly conducted or carried on or to individuals functioning under the official jurisdiction thereof, or (2) a person who en- gages in the conductor activities described in the first paragraph of this section as a part of a show or exhibition solely for the purpose of entertainment or amusement, or (3) newspapers or other publications accorded mailing privileges by the United States Government. -2. Section 3. Chapter 28 (Section 28-1 thru 28.5) of the Code of the City of Miami, Florida, are hereby repealed and the following classifications contained in 'Chapter 30, Article M. Schedule of License Taxes, Section 30-28 of said code are hereby deleted: Clairvoyants, fortunetellers, horoscopists, hypnotists, lecturers, minerologists, naturists, palmists, phrenologists, physical correctionists, physical culturists, physical therapists, physicaltopathists, physiotherapists, sun culturists, ostrologists, dietetists, and dietitians. Section 4. Any person violating the provisions of Section 2, of this ordinance shall be fined or imprisoned, or both fined and imprisoned in accordance with Sections 3.(aa) of the Charter of the City of Miami (Chapter 10847, Acts of Florida, 1925, as amended) and Section 1-6 of the Code of the City of Miami, Florida. Section 5. All ordinances, code sections or.parts thereof in conflict herewith, insofar as they are in conflict, are hereby repealed. Section 6 If any section, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this ordinance is for any reason held or declared to be un- constitutional, inoperative or void, such holding or invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of this ordinance; and it shall be construed to have been the intent of The Commission of the City of Miami to pass this ordinance without such unconstitutional, invalid, or inoperative part therein; and the remainder of this ordinance, after the exclusion of such part or parts shall be deemed and held to be valid as if such parts had not been included therein, .3. PANED ON RST RBADTNO BY TtTlit ONLY thin 24th day of Fobruagx, 1977. PASSED AND ADOPTED ON SECOND AND FINAL READING BY TITLE ONLY eh a 16 day of MARCH__ PREPARED AND APPROVED BY: S. R. 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Sunday and Legal Holidays) and het been entered 00 sleond Clete Mail 'flatter et the post office in Mahn, In said Dade COurity..Floikide, tat a period Of one year nett pfeCedint the Mit publication of the attached cagy of adyenlisentent; ano avflant turthio telt* OW the hes neither peld net pfbMited any person, 'WM Or Cotperation any dittount, rebate. commission of Wend jpP the purpose of aeeeting this advettleetrietif TOt Du bade in the ta newipaper. Swo lib!cdbilt! tote thh 2r4i day t44-rgt.1.1,, ..,fr b,) 77 PU N 0. Lame SEAL) My Commission expli. 'tool1/4„5" titt 1fl ntAillt -0AI* tin•titt.ififitiliA itnntipt tto stprtt_tt Alt Infrtraled *fit ink' tinileo flint on ill() it'll) (int i,t Mer41, lett. the City cemimisst,in Plot ?de 114,0P11 tiltoil ntellniinerg: ORTANANCt:0. Pri2t) AN nntlew: Litt:Pp:AtINti tit ttorttt 26 1iki.ICTIOti4 Atit) SIrTIOX 311-20. AND »tti.,tirlmo Vt:IttAIN r-LAssIPIrAtioNS coNt AINki)t '14.krttrt AittIciAt itt St(". 10-2R Tits '05* uP t11t! tit t ATAMI. 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ORDINANC1.114, COON APr•rtoM%nfl PARTS 1i1t11105 i oNPUCT, /NAnt`Att AS ARE IX ritxtri,1(1% AEU coNTAIXINT; SEvir,ItAtItto ITV PttoVidioN. CITY PI.E/Ilt rtoillearnn ,if till. out 1,.0 on slut 23 ony 107t. 312:i 31309913M r r.r r :: pii,., H0tht1RM L1J MEMBERS OF �'EI ITY COI,NISSIOt`i ... i. GEORGL V, 1<i OX, JR. ', City Attorney .. January 19, 1977 Fortune Telling, etc,; Proposed ordinance prohibit t g Lisa Williams v. Cit of Miami, Dat1fe C;out.trjrCzrc. Crt. r; 4-34717 Arthur Drinkwater v. City of Miami.. Dade County Circ t Crt .�r`1-3422 As a result of the ruling in the Drinkwater case, the amount of the City of Miami license fee for an astrologer was reduced from $1,385 to $424. In the Williams case, Williams is demanding that the license amount for a palmist be likewise reduced from $1,385 to $424. Previous to the Drinkwater case, the license amounts for all fortune telling type licenses (fortune telling, palmist, mind reader, astrologer, etc.) were $1,385 each. Palmists, etc. now say they are astrologers and obtain the $424 astrologer license instead of the $1,385 palmist, etc, license. As the Williams case proceeded along its way to final disposition, research revealed that in most .juri_sciictions (including Now York and California) , fortune tellini and similar endeavors are declared illegal by legislative enactment. In addition, while the Williams c a;;c was being litigated, Linda Stanton (also known as "Senora P,entri_z") , licensed as a Palmist by the City_ of: Miami, was arrested for illegally taking $ 2_0,000 :Cromone orier customers, Sgt. Fred Postal of our Police Department worked on this case and obtained a conviction of Stanton for grand larceny involving this incident. The att_achea copies of newspaper articles tell of this occurrence and other incidences involving fortune telling cases. Sgt. Postelstates that there are many more of these incidences, but because of embarrassment or for other reason the victims simply do not: proceed criminally against the fortune teller, etc. involved. The City has stated to the court in the Williams case that a study of this overall situation was iti progress leading to the possible passage of an ordinance correctin" the present: state of the various sections of the Miami Code which relate to this subject (Sections 28-1 thru 5, 30-20 and the applicable 1i.cen .e classification titles in 30- 25) . A hearing is scheduled on I'ricirty, rebruary 4, 1977, before the Hon- orable '1'i;c:,2i i A. Testa, at t•:hic:r it is considered that it: would be l)c`ilrlfAcia to (and, hopefully, c'c`?c.`i ive of) the C ity's case to present. this or+:1inai1.^.C':`. as ha:%1:7!'.S passer! on first, readinq by tho City of Miami City Commission. HONORAttE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION January 19, 1977 Page 2 Based upon our research of the law regarding this type of activity and because of the actual and current: incidences of crime in the Miami area _ involving fortune tellers, etc., it is the recommenda- tion of the Law Department that, instead of continually attempting to justify the amounts charged for these licenses in court, an ordinance be passed snaking it unlawful to engage in the fortune telling, etc: business in the City of Miami. Only 5 or 6 licenses are issued annually for this type of activity. As stated above, now all categories of this type of business purchase the lower priced astrologers license (5424) instead of the higher priced $1,385 fortune tellers, palmist, etc. license, There was a former State Statute which provided for the licensing of fortune tellers, etc , but this statute c•ias repealed in 1967. Thus, there no longer is an impediment to the passage of this pro- hibitory ordinance on conflict grounds (Board of County Commissioners of Dade County v. Boswell, Fla. 1967, 167 So.2d 866.) Accordingly, the accompanying proposed ordinance is respectfully submitted for possible passage. GFK : SRS : eb Attachment • . • • • • 4%4 4 f • • • .• • • t • • I tVt • • • " `'. (.1.* . ."As.;• 4.tte.,,L*14.4. • " - • • ••• 6 cot cu 01 0 *.C1 ..E.7.-....itfp.....„...4.Fr4 1....,. 1..• 4.. -,, '' . • • .4•••••-or...1. - ,,,..• .. . ,.. . ;,- ; • i 4••• A ''' ,146•4:7%,40,1j 0 4..r.p...., • • ,• r",..,r• a " hmei' •• -0 • .`rir. 4"4"5 ' r: Lt. .• • • • • • • • • • • ,a . — 4: .04,40,-.mort•Ar , ,s,r • . ...Z.7.r,..,... .147P411e:MY7 IiL'74-"9:4P01:4,4*.) "rFtwrorer1 • '''?„W,E4'1'"I pleorcialr,t,*e!m--"f3f7"•9 • a . • 'Standing nude in his bathroom. Joe Sanci:t:z iw.ute :the 'names ct . Ns family .on two ,eggs and rubbed Ahem xarcfuliy lover his body. Later, he bought a live white ,thicken, withdrew his $20;000 in . savings and took them and the eggs — to a gypsy palm reader, ;police said. The :paint reader had :told him tits $20,000 tivas —evil" ,and was the cause ,of his health ,and .domestic problems, police said. She :oia him she -would kill the chicken, put The money under its wing, bury :t in an attempt to "cleanse" it and, hopef::lty, make all acts probla s :disappear, police said. - l3ut the only thing that disap- peared was Sanchez' money. And the problem he we: t to cure is ;low overshadowed by the prob- lems that "care" created. For .Jose Sanciwz, that $20,000 was the val.ie of h:s life — a life he had spent NvorLinp, scve.n days a week, 16 hours a day at .a little grocery tic had laboriously saved uP Au buy. Now the 40-year-old Sanchez, who qU t school • fter the third grade to go to work, says he will sell :his small grocery .and try to put his life back torcther. "The money was :for them (his wife and son)," he says. "I will keep on -working. The incident, bizarre yet dcvas- . Rating to Sanchez — has resulted in .the .arrest of the palm reader on a • charge of grand larceny. The 35-year-old palm reader.. Venezuelan -born Linda,Stanton .(.known professionally as Senora Beatriz), could not be reached Jor ,comment. Tier husband.Chuck Stanton. said she would have "no comment" on the charge but added. "No such thing happened." Sanchez says that all he knows is that the last time be saw his $20 000 it was tucked under the wing of a ,dead chicken. • • Jose • S ;it.acui Ntws Staff Photo by KA1.11Y WILLLNS Sanchez feels his trip to palmist was a holdup .As be served custo:grit at his small wood frame grocery. "he tried to explain how it all started. "I had health problems, family problems •and twenty other things," he said. lie said he "was desperate" tivhen, last February, "I found an ad in Diario Las Americas" about Senora Ltca riz and tier -p ::'--s as a healer. adviser and sluices a'ist Sanchez. r re igio• s :ra-:. said he normally wouldn't have ^clieved "in those things," but, acting tout of •_...-._-•• •. frustration and growing dcspera- lion. he called Senora L'eatriz. got an appointment and was told the consultation would cost him $5. At the first meeting. police said. Sanchez told the paint reader about his problems and was told it v.•ould cost him $1.200 to help him solve thne paim reads. police Said. had impressed Sanchez by telling him — correctly — that his son Jose Jr. w s .iv'^.:•c. The following days, Sanchez re- turned and gave the woman. ;600, police said. The palm reader told him he had. been working so hard to carat money that he was neglecting his fancily and health, police said. "She said my money was jinxed. that my problem was not medical but rather a curse from the money.. Sanchez said. At the cnd of the session. he said, the woman "sent me home to, Continuedon 4A, col..4 r'. • • 00 if tit. Of rig lis . W' Q, 'grocer says fon' is ebhtinuetl Inn IA St 1• tub two egos ovrt my burly (after day w;titing his harm niul that elf his r ---- wife and son on them)." Ile added: "She asked the to teturrt with the eggs and a live chicken. She asked Inc to bring my n►orey," .That Was on a Friday. Over the weekend, Sanchez followed the in, structions Closely: He bought the chicken and tubbed the eggs over his body. Then, on Monday, he went to two separate; banks and withdrew S10,000 he had saved up in each account, picked Up the chicken and the eggs and hpadEd back to the palm Leader, police said., • - ' When he got to Senora 13eatriz' office -in a small shopping -office complex at 1756 SW Sth St., he said she took the chicken from him and killed it while twirling it in the air 'over my head." He said the Woman told him "she was going to bury the money tinder a Wing." • Then she cracked open the two eggs and a trace of blood supposed- ly appeared in one of them, police said. Sanchez told police the palm reader said the blood was an indi- Cation that some of the "evil was 'coming out.' The gypsy put the money tinder • the dead chicken's wing and said she would bury it later, Sanchez • told police, . "She said to come back in two - or three days to get the (cleansed) but money and (she woad) tell the was what I had to do with it and where to put it," Sanchez said. an When he returned, he said, the and palm reader told him "it was ton ent soon and if we got it out all Nye atd, would find was dirt and blond." Sanchez :said he finally became lit.. suspicious and told•.pcfice every- crc- thing that had happened.' . Miami (Detective Fred Postel said nod Sanchez had also r;teen told his gym.. money could tioti to asrtes if the urd , curse couldn't,he> lifted. .972 Police said' Mrs. Stanton admit- est., ted recciv`ng S605 from Sanchez, h, a but denied getting the S20,000. At lied a preliminary hearing recently, .eat Judge Richard Hickey bound her over to Circuit Court for trial. ert- Sanchez — who said, "It has ope been difficult for' people to believe" ich — took a lie detector test which sed showed he was telling the truth. vid Police verified that the S20,000 had been withdrawn from his savings. see In a soft voice, the small, slight- m}, lyebuilt man described how his !Tay .problems may be only beginning. the First, it means divorce because and my Wife thinks 1 took the money out to hide it in order to get a di- d„ vorce," he said, adding; that he ,Ar. hasn't been able to get her to 1111' Live derstand that he was trying to live solve his problems, that he did it t. all for her. , , m• "The money was for them (his of wife and son)," added Sanchez, ad who has been married for l0 yeas. keh Sanchez has not had an easy nd life- At the age of 12, he went to le. Work for his uncle, who operated a fruit market, For the first six years nt he worked he didn't draw any ri- 'I elt years ugo, he left his native It Cuba, went to Spain and later ,,'i n- l;retect to the Upited States. tic r- Canto to Miami, worked in restau. Cants i!rld sawed his mon,�y, Ile t,truggird And saved $ ,Oar►, which he used as a down payment r,rl his grocery store, in the central p.:;t of the city. iv v.'nr -.'•rt 34 .t',,1 lt,'bou s 4 ti,ty, t•,t•rpitt{; the stile• ;Veil f'Vf ry .d :y t,f the \',9•e4. In Zit :months, he said, lap v:as ghle to raycift the :rem:.;tint .-,ea,G! inor tf.ake on the ,troc(,ry, store ;And the #': c'ilr1-t;v. i • Fte returned that same money and the eggs. Alter rabbit over his back, site put therm la a h zing and broke ti er,.. Boehmke said.. "She then said to give her the money{ Geehtnke said. "She put it ino the middle° f the handkerchief), then took: another SW from her pocketbook and threw that ire. "She said she had to bury this quid the cemetery. She said tax come' baek. wit my wife left." When he and his wire returned the pat reader "handed us a jar with rose! pet3f5`il Water,- i.oe`.mke said.. "She said when my wire WS% taking shower or bat:' to sprinkle, some off the co tents of the jar over her,. that is wflg maJ my vile sweet." They tried it for a couple*; -a day Doe hi ;.. said. Gut suddenly he Si.' '',M.WI ttt1 hi Tr.. "1 can't Cake this. Idsgene1 far." A bit later he said, she went toil ue wl her parents. She has since filedt for divot, tic added. ' r haven't slept (much.)• ' he said.: "The nervous wreck. I had to borrow 400`fcon loan compar..yto pay bills." honest her, Mrs. Stanton. reached by p fice', said she did .'t recall Boehmke,. • sy rose By BILL GJ£BRE Wain' News Repar:R Following the instructions• of the gypsy palm reader to the letter. ohs Bochmke. trying to save his _marriage, faithfully ?oared the water and rose petals over his wife as she showered. He die so for several nights in a row. It didn't work. His five-year marriage s about to break up. and Uocltmkc, 27, au op- tical technican, is in debt alter paying the palm reader $450. Bochmke's story is the second unusua! tale involving the palm reader. Senora Be- triz, whose real name is Linda Stanton. Recently Miami police accused her of grand larceny after a 43 ar-old grocer. Jose Sanchez, charged the he lost $20:200 following her advice. That charge has notpre:cnted Mrs. Stan- ton from c rt,auing to operate her busiress. hough L. Bill Ansley. head of the count_: police department's license bureau: sad he will recommend that the county commission suspend her license until the grand lareery charges settled. Mrs. Stanton. who has an office on .. c second floor o' a small 'com- plex at 1755 SW 8th St.. needs both_ county and city licenses to operate ' 'The palm reader $350 to?n wke my the curse. MNy °wife :'roper ui expression worth it. I love my said it would take -' wife happy and lift looked at me with a I figured it would be wife.' EY y i ' BochrrAior. pre •much police are row inveat•ga..nb began in mid -February when his ll ante and his sister-in-law went to .. _ _-a i:en"67... • When his %vire returned. foch,nkc said. • the to!d H:-" that p :m reader said there was "an e I curs en her fa fly. \n arg r,t folfo•.ced and Soci:mice's wife ever.tuaily left to stay with her par- errs. The 'a'ov: to week she asked him to aceomT . •~r to S 'ra i.eatriz The' pa:nt reader„ :ed about the evil curse on his wife s family and said' it would take 8350 'n make my wife' happy and Iift the curse,'`-+eehtax_ said. "My wife looked at me"' with a hopeful expression. Boehmke said. adding. ' t figured it would be worth it. I love my wile:' i?oehm a said he returned alone the next day with a check for $150 arid Mrs St nth:. • told him she would "have to make some- thing special from the peals or some dying ' roses:' liochmke said the paint reader 'asked me haw much money t had in the bank. add- ing. " I said $400. She said she needed $900 in $50 bills and two eggs froth my refrgera- lloehmke said he couldn't get $900' but agreed to bring back $300. 1#y Et)i4'A 1115CFTAtiAN Nnt.Nd Sr.'', The maigiic of rr onev tnuttipi+in;.gro«ing.and turning into stacks of St0O hills -•- dazzled two lonely South Beach widows into eagerly taking their $ i1,11D11 life savings to a gypsy fortune teller who has Mani ished, police said Saturday. • • • • - - • "One word, greed, explains it ate" Miami. Beach Detective Sgt. Robert Bishop said Saturday. "They are not stupid woo ten. When they came to their senses, they realizedthat tnnney doesn't grow that way. But they got caught up in the mumbo jumbo gypsy jargon." . • . , Annie Wilson, 48, k;nocvn as Rev. Witsori, is being sought ort a grand larceneetvarrant. She operated a le- Bally licensed bisirrezis hnti •tie: for l months, epeee eatd : iiifCSO:V• ;} POLICE believethere, are other ictims, • • • 1 ' "There could be two or 52," Sgt .emaye ;• t•: 4, • 1 ttJ-er• • ¢,,,_ FROM PAGE 1 D .y Bishop said, "I, know there are 'sewed shut, the victim said, w 35 more.' . • $1 hills. "1 saw poor people come up and The victim has a. heart condition• dump hundreds on her table," one "I will die," she said, "i1 rely of the two known victims said Sat- ' friend!; and my t•clatives find out. t►rday. E I'ttt igft with $500 to my name." "I•tow soul! people be that watt- { She talc.! police she also € ave ble?" Miami Bach Cuuttcilmaa Rev. 1Vileon $5,400 to help her Leonard Weinstein said. with "probletns of n perso:,al na• Rev. Wilson and her family van- • - tires.. !shed during the early muroing f "She was using hie like. o hours last. Monday --• still Owing ', shrink," Sgt. Bishop explained. Weinstein, their landlord, two months rent. -- • THE SECOND vlciirn cashed in THEY were always delinquent. certificates of deposit totaling SO, - "THEY , 000. "That represents lifetime 5'V- Several times I sent them t'lrce•day fine l," Bistro!+ :old. notices sod I had to file a couple at The money, hi S10'•3 n',0s, was to lawsuits but they always seemed to . double, Those Lilts too, shalt% to get current at the last minute," • sin^les instead. said Weinstein who collects .rents She threatens suicide if neigh - for the out-of-town owner. , .. • bars in the 400-unit apartment Fortune telling, Weinstein said, • house where she lives find' out. should be banned or more. tightly • "She thinks she'll be a laughing controlled. One of. Rev., Wilson's sictiraa`�• sixty years old, a college graduate'' and a widow for 20 years — said'• Saturday: "I'm not so bright. I'm quite stupid. I've haven't eater. or slept ha two days." Two days ago Sgt. kiishop'es- corted her to her safety deposit box at Vashington Federal Savings and Loan, after warning her. what she would find. HER $3,500 In $100 bills was to grow to $35,000, s he Said. Instead it shrank — MI they found In the cloth bag the gypsy tram Tore to Page 58 Co,t stock,' Bishop said. Both victims initially visited Rev. Wilson for $5 palm readings. police said. Rev. Wilson advertised, dis- tributed leaflets and posted two large shuns on the building reading 'Palen Reader" and "Rev. Wilson." She multiplied money for both to demonstrate her magical powers, police said. "I GAVE her $20 and $100 and size made them doebte," the first victim said. The gypsy told her, she ssid, not to open the handkerchief in which the"magical" $20 was wrapped. But on a trip to visit rela- tives in New York, she wanted to spend the $«0. She unwrapped it, "There were two $,Os," she said, She hurried back to 1tliami Beach 3vhere the magic was later repeat- t% ,! with a $1u0 bill. Rev. 'Nilson her to keep hoth, she said. Tend, it R'as her savInga. The second woman was told to e.-fir itev. %V lson a $50 ;bill wrap, ttr nand a tomato, police said, T,he gypsy wrapped the S50 .in a hrldiserchief and .gave it to the woman, To prove !tar tragic, she rtjsh4f� he tornat, under" her fo' t and displayed a dead crab she said • was inside, police said. THE WOMAN later unwrappd; the handkerchief and found rive $50 bills. She began casting ie. sav- ings certificates. After pacing a cloth bag sup- posedly containing her $43,000 in t 'her safety deposit box to -"grow, ,; she became worried. "She suddenly realized .something wasn't light,' l3ishup said, and called police. The money had shrunk and Rev, Wilson's iipstairs apartment was, empty. The gypsy, her husband Ar- chie, two sons, Jaughter,in►-law find I0-year-old daughter had VIM* fished. There were signs of hasty packing, police said, The other victims found the a,partrnent empty. Neighbors told tier the gypsies were gone, police had been there and a woman ha01 been swindled ct t cof . io4 -Of money, With growing horror, ehe #, f;..ed she too had beei3 biikl,. . - Ar.c% 16/ kk Ill 1 - StAl ttAGUNt ititj Socret Sic k Ithhert Now., Wand 13 main* Offer; of bigger jobs in Washington and York. ile'd illiS3 Sritalt Horida's golf courses That gypiy Nithist accused tttipping off ttvo tvidows for' more than Sai,001? had A $1,000-a-S-ear fortune telling. licety,o the city of Miami teach, and an arrest record dating lack 20 l'ears• The MettO tottittiission had refused liPr a county licim,f! Atter checking her background „ Mario Petit, Miami i'.Iayor Mfttlrie0 reer64% secretary at Mule industries and recently Stk itetted to the city payrolls was placed on that payruU start- ing Oct, 1 — 19 day before the City C01711T111M1 a ppro‘ erl her appointMent. Confronted with the conflicting,date... ['erre tid he'd pay Ms. Petit for that time out of his tw.ri pot kr.t The U.S. attorney's office and the state attorn,.$y's oftice are investigating a local police department v:ltere it's p.portrct that a top official is involved in a tar theft ring and that another mentber of the department belongs to a Mafia family ,.. Woman shopper tried to pay for a few trinkets in Flagler Street 'Woolworth's with a S100 bill bill. The Clerk said it looked phony and went to call police, The Woman, who'd said she bought them in Chile, hurriedly departed, leaving three bogus bills behind By tDNA tteCliANAN • "r1 LH ortune 3y EDNA BUCHANAN • HOrata Staff writto The gypsy fortune teller whose Money .magic •e-- S100 bills and growing into crisp green stacks — dazzled two lonely r1iarni Beach widows into eagerly turning over their 851,900 He sav- ings, has been jailod in Montreal Nlerribers of the Mortreal fraud detail arrested Annie 'Wilson. -V:), Thursday. based on twin grand tar= ceny warrants obtained 11.• 13each police. "It's just a matter ryl extradition now," 1iamiIleach Detective Sgt. Robert Hishr.‘p said. -We're looking forward to ha•.'ing her back — to stand trial." MRS. 1, VILSON, also known as ReV. 'Wilson. operated a city li- censed business, as a palm reader for several years at 220S Ave. She had a record of arrests dating back 20 years. She and her family vanished in darkness last month — still owing Miarai Beach Councilman I.r.tonard Weinstein, their landlord, two months rent. • Ikr tea -I. if-V".'Nemi, 111 1-;1 r Two rip-offs of widows, who originally visited Mrs. Wilson for a S5 palm reading and quickly be- came convinced the gypsy could make S100 bills multiply with her magic raurnbo jumbo. quickly came to light. One gave the gypsy S3.500 which was to grow to S:15,000 white se%vect inside a cloth hair in a sefety depo.it hox. Si!S' dgave S5.1r,l) 10 help her •vith personal pro'n!enrs, sle_, said. The other cashed in certificates of deposit totaling S13,000. It to4). tV3S into a bag which was switched, police said, before tieing placed into a safety clepo..it box. INSTEAD of the money growne — it shrank. Whea opened, the bags contair.ed $1 bills instead of SIOUs. Sgt. Nihon believed there mOit be many more victims. One has been found so far. a woman who admitted giving Mrs. Wilson $4100 in the hopes it would grow. She is reluctant to prosecute, police said. One of the victims said that dur- ing her many Visits to the gypsy she saw "poor people corne up and dump hundreds of dollars on her table." Sgt. Bishop's investigation led him to believe the family might head to New York, Orlando, New Orleans or Montreal. He sent pho- tos, fin and summaries of the swindles to !ice in all four The family vanisIied, police said. in an overdue rental car. The rental car saes found al,Nitt.cloned in New York state just across a bridge from the Canadian border. Mrs. Wilson arlesIvc1 a short time lit cr. Mrs. Wilson's husband. Archie, wanted on auto charges, eluded po- lice. XSgt. Ilishop notified the victims , riday that Mrs. Wilson is in custo.47 dy. "They were surprised and happy," Bishop said. "They sound- ed excited.** They also asked about recovering their money xvhich, po- lice told them from the start, is doubtful.