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SEANCE FRAUD CHARGES 44 COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD” 4 MEDIUM FOR TRIAL Helen Duncan, aged 46, giving addresses ..

... SEANCE FRAUD CHARGES 44 COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD” 4 MEDIUM FOR TRIAL Helen Duncan, aged 46, giving addresses at Kirkhill Drive, Edinburgh, and Milton Road, Portsmouth, was committed for trial at the Old Bailey yesterday by the Portsmouth magistrates ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1944
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 135 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WITCHCRAFT ACT TRIAL MEDIUM OFFERS TEST IN COURT There was a tense moment in the Witchcraft Act trial at the

... Loseby, defending counsel, threw down a challenge by inviting the jury to ask the Recorder. Sir Gerald Dodson, to allow Mrs. Helen Duncan, the medium in the case, to give them a demonstration of her powers. “If Mrs. Duncan has a guide.” said Mr. Xioseby to ...

Published: Tuesday 28 March 1944
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 121 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

200-YEAROLD ACT CHARGES

... 200-YEAROLD ACT CHARGES under the Witchcraft Act of 1739 were heard at the Old Bailey to-day. Before the court were Mrs. Helen Duncan, aged 46, medium, giving addresses at Kirkhill Drive, Edinburgh, and Milton Road, Portsmouth; Ernest Edward Hartland Homer ...

Published: Thursday 23 March 1944
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 117 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PREMIER’S NEXT STATEMENT

... WITCHCRAFT ALLEGATION Appeal Fails The Court of Criminal Appeal in considered judgment today dismissed the appeals of Mrs. Helen Duncan, Mrs. F. Brown, of Newbottle, Houghton -le - Spring, Durham; Ernest Edward fiartoland Homer and Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Jones ...

Published: Monday 19 June 1944
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 156 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Doctors Differ

... investigation. Dr. Colin Grant who examined her Novembw 14th, said he formed tS opinion idle had been ill tor some time. Dr. Helen Duncan, who examined Davies on behalf of the Mlnlstry of Labour, on November 18th. said she could find nothing wrong with her ...

Published: Tuesday 21 November 1944
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TARSIT FOR TO-MORROW

... which fully depicts the strength in which 'we are Masting Hitler’s West Wall and the NaMs behind It The appeals of Mrs. Helen Duncan and other persons convicted the witchcraft trial at the Old Bailey, are to heard on Thursday. A baby girl weighing gglb ...

Published: Tuesday 06 June 1944
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 143 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

STUDENT SA W ‘CORPULENT GRANDPA THER ’

... THER Manchester Sitting Revelation VIDENCE about the appear- ance to a student of psychic phenomena at a sitting with Mrs. Helen Duncan (the accused medium) in Manchester 12 years ago of the living form of his six-fobt-one corpulent grandfather was given ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1944
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 436 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NO MISDIRECTION

... WITCHCRAFT APPEAL DISMISSED The Court of Criminal Appeal, in considered judgment, to-day dismissed the appeals of Mrs. Helen Duncan. Mrs. Frances Brown, of Newbottle, Houghtonle-Spring, Durham, Ernest Edward Hartoland Homer, and Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Jones ...

Published: Monday 19 June 1944
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 189 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Seance Trial

... he was alive and being eared (or patriots in Holland. Later, however, they found that had passed over. Accused are Mrs. Helen Duncan (46). giving an address Kirk Hill-drive, Edinburgh and Miltonroad, Portsmouth; Ernest Edward Hartland Homer, druggist, ...

Published: Friday 24 March 1944
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 172 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

V JUCT DItAFFCARCD *

... complained that someone was laughing her. The Recorder (Sir Gerald Dodson); Mo one is laughing at you. The defendants are: Mrs. Helen Duncan (44). medium, giving addresses at Klrkhlll-drlve. Edinburgh, and Mllton-road, Portamouth; krnest Edward Hartland Homer ...

Published: Tuesday 28 March 1944
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SONGS AT A SEANCE Witchcraft Act Charges CHARGES under the Witchcraft Act of 1735 were heard at the Old Bailey,

... Charges CHARGES under the Witchcraft Act of 1735 were heard at the Old Bailey, London, today, when before the court were Mrs. Helen Duncan (46), a medium, giving addresses at Kirkhill - drive, Edinburgh, and Milton-road, Portsmouth; Ernest Edward Hartland Homer ...

Published: Thursday 23 March 1944
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 180 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... separate courts at the same time 1 Senior counsel in the Witchcraft case, says the Daily Mail, he secured the conviction of Helen Duncan, and in the sixday trial for murder of a widow Licensee Portsmouth, secured the acquittal ofthe accused, Harold Loughans ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1944
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 258 | Page: 2 | Tags: none