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MEDIUM WEEPS AND SHOUTS AT VERDICT Found guilty under the Witchcraft Act

... under the Witchcraft Act News Chronicle Reporter WEEPING, and shouting This is all lies; why do they do this to me? Mrs. Helen Duncan, 46-year-old medium, walked from the dock to the cells at the Old Bailey last night, after the jury had declared her ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1944
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 525 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A\ i MOST IN CONFIDENCE

... topical, so let us see how far we get with saying a little about each of them. I spent a day in the Old Bailey, where Mrs. Helen Duncan and three others were convicted under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. Fortunately, in my various incursions into psychic i ...

Published: Sunday 02 April 1944
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1422 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Medium's 'Oh, 0 at prisfl

... HAIR awry, her brown felt hat fallen to the floor of the dock, and with a sobbing moan, Oh, isn't there a God? Mrs. Helen Duncan, who had collapsed when the Recorder, Sir Gerald Dodson, passed sentence of nine months' imprisonment on her, left the ...

Published: Tuesday 04 April 1944
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 485 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Mrs. Duncan gets nine months but appeals at once

... Mrs. Duncan gets nine months but appeals at once THE Recorder, Sir Gerald Dodson, at the Old Bailey yesterday sent Mrs. Helen Duncan (46), spiritualist medium, to prison for nine months under the Witchcraft Act. Sentenced with Mrs. Duncan, after a seven ...

Published: Tuesday 04 April 1944
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 623 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Helen Duncan's Wealth

... Helen Duncan's Wealth v I JONES rom oeances ,Tf dis.in per ilur if she had hoot. .-rut a —tic* into l.fr-aftrr- I trie woman. she was taken down Jth .. hospital ! Uw tvll> ,>,llcc un ' yd jail. .J/'V'v f . IM ' Brums tnateiiaU.-ation w >-s I nu' ...

Published: Tuesday 04 April 1944
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1085 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... helped a farm tractor driver get dead members the crew out. MRS. DUNCAN MAY APPEAL TO-DAY Formalities the appeal .Mrs. Helen Duncan, tiie medium the Witchcraft Act case, were not completed rx;«f*' that will I finished time for a notice lodged to-day. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1944
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 610 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

REFUSED BAIL

... REFUSED BAIL An application before a judge in chambers tor bail lor Mrs. Helen Duncan, the medium the witchcraft case at the Old Bailey, was refused yesterday. An application for leave to appeal has been lodged on behalf Mrs. Duncan and Mrs. Francis Brown ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1944
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 53 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... m• O•mms IMagm, ••••= m Nim. •••••IM.••• m5..11 An application before • judge in chambers for for Mrs. Helen Duncan. the medium in the Witchcraft Act case at the Old Bailey. pending the result of an application for leave to appeal. refused ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1944
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 868 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OTOR 10, ST. 6°,

... connected with the prosecution, which was in no w 0 an attack on spiritualists as a sect. Spiritualists, however, see in Mrs. Helen Duncan, the principal defendant, the St. Joan of Spiritualism. The Chief Constable of Portsmouth took a different view. He said ...

Published: Friday 07 April 1944
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3555 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MRS. DUNCAN: SPIRITUALISTS’ DEFENCE FUND

... CROWDED meeting spiritualists Klngsway Hall, London, was told last night by Mr. J. B. Mclndoc that they must ensure that Mrs. Helen Duncan, the medium convicted recently at the Old Bailey on a charge of fraud, had all the facilities for an adequate defence. ...

Published: Sunday 23 April 1944
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 394 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TAXIMEN DENY

... meeting of spiritualists at Kingsway Hall London, was told last night by Mr. J. B. Mclndoe, that they must ensure that Mrs. Helen Duncan, the medium who was convicted recently at the Old Bailey on a charge of fraud, had all the facilities for an adequate defence ...

Published: Sunday 23 April 1944
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2318 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Mosquito.s Out

... ists in London last night. -!cf and miles within the out 1 He said they must ensure that soviet-Estonian border. !Mrs. Helen Duncan, the medium They were blasted more than 100 , ow radio last night sent out who was convicted recently at the , 0 the German ...

Published: Sunday 23 April 1944
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 548 | Page: 1 | Tags: none