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| Detroit Free Press, August 3, 1929 |
If you know nothing of the mystic frenzy which encompassed Detroit in the first quarter of the 20th century then you've been cheated. Anyway...here's one of the least successful fortune tellers to hit the scene.
Silva Synci arrived in Detroit from Houston in late July of 1929 and quickly got to work. Just as quickly the police department were on to his trade. Police woman Victoria Wasney paid an undercover visit to Synci to get her fortune read.
He told her that she'd get married the next year. Then he asked if she had a steady boyfriend. When she said no he informed her that a mystical man would soon make love to her. That man was him. Then proceeded to put his arms around her and attempt a purloined kiss.
Instead he was arrested and ordered to leave town by Judge W. McKay Skillman or face jail with the former part mandatory, calling Synci's business a high class call girl racket. It was a brief 3 day stay in the city of the straits.
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