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WITCHCRAFT TRIAL

... Centre over a Portsmouth drug store. Police-Inspector F. D. Ford said that the plan had been to catch the medium, Mrs. Helen Duncan, red-handed and have her arretted in front of the curtain. The hearing was adjourned until Monday, HITLER’S SUPPER Soup ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1944
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

JUDGE’S REFUSAL

... going to be reduced to the level of an exhibition. Mr. Swaffer was giving evidence for the defence in the case of Mrs. Helen Duncan, a medium, and three others, accused in connection with seances in the Master Temple Psychic Centro Church at Portsmouth ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1944
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE WITCHCRAFT

... THE WITCHCRAFT TRIAL. SENTENCES PASSED. MEDIUM COLLAPSES. Mrs. Helen Duncan. known throughout Britain as a spiritualist medium, collapsed moaning in the Old Bailey dock to-day when the Recorder (Sir Gerald Dodson) sentenced her to nine months' imprisonment ...

Published: Monday 03 April 1944
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WITCHCRAFT TRIAL

... WITCHCRAFT TRIAL The Sentences Mrs. Helen Duncan (46), described of Kirkhill Drive, Edinbutgh, and Milton Road, Portsmouth, collapsed moaning in the Old Bailey yesterday when the Recorder, Sir Gerald Dodson, sentenced her to nine months’ imprisonment ...

Published: Tuesday 04 April 1944
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SPIRIT USED LIPSTICK

... conjuration contrary to the Act. causing money to paid by false pretences and creating a public mischief.'' They were Mrs. Helen Duncan (46). a medium, giving addresses at Kirkhiil Drive, Edinburgh, and Milton Road, Portsmouth; Ernest Edward Hartland Homer ...

Published: Friday 24 March 1944
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WITCHCRAFT TRIAL

... Bailey yesterday, Mr. C. E. Loseby, defending counsel, Invited the to ask the Recorder. Sir Gerald Dodson, to allow Mrs. Helen Duncan, a medium, to give them demonstration of her powers. Mrs. Duncan, with three others, is pleading not guilty to conspiring ...

Published: Tuesday 28 March 1944
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Swaffer’s evidence in seance trial Mr. Hannon Swaffor. spiritualise and journalist, off o red from the witness ..

... hands if it is to be a question of any experiments.’’ Mr. Swaffer was giving evidence for the defence in the case of Mrs. Helen Duncan, the medium, and three others accused in connexion with seances in the Master Temple Psychic Centre Chnrch Portsmouth. ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1944
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 329 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WITCHCRAFT TRIAL

... Arthur Conan Doyle, the author and spiritualist, appeared unannounced and stayed ior a few seconds at a .- eance held Mrs. Helen Duncan, accused medium. Mr, James William Herries, an Edinburgh journalist, who has teen investigator of psychic phenomena for ...

Published: Friday 31 March 1944
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 349 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CONSPIRACY CHARGE

... APPEALS DISMISSED. The Court of Criminal Appeal, London, in a considered judgment to-day, dismissed the appeals of Mrs. Helen Duncan, Mrs. Frances Brown, of Newbottle, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham; Ernest Edward Hartoland Homer, and Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Jones ...

Published: Monday 19 June 1944
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 579 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TRIAL OF MEDIUM

... continued their case under the 200 year old Witchcraft Act against a medium, two other women, and a man. Accused are Mrs. Helen Duncan (46), Ernest Edward Hartland Homer, druggist, Elizabeth Jones, and Mrs. Frances Brown. They all plead not guilty to conspiring ...

Published: Friday 24 March 1944
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 509 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE 'WITCHCRAFT'

... THE 'WITCHCRAFT' TRIAL. APPEALS NEXT WEEK. The appeal of Mrs. Helen Duncan, the medium. who was sentenced at the Old Bailey to nine months' imprisonment for conspiring to contravene the WitchcrUft Act of 1733 will come before the Court of Criminal Appeal ...

Published: Friday 19 May 1944
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 583 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DRAPED FIGURE, AT WAS A WOMAN

... were among incidents alleged to have taken place at 6d. a seat seances Portsmouth, described to the magistrates yesterday. Helen Duncan, giving addresses at Edinburgh and Portsmouth, was committed for trial the Old Bailey charged with conspiring to cheat ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1944
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 686 | Page: 3 | Tags: none