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WAR RESERVE CONSTABLE DIVED FOR SPIRIT AT SEANCE, AND CAUGHT 11011 OF MEDIUM

... peared on a screen, and found it was a spiritualist medium. This was alleged at Portsmouth Police Court yesterday when rs. Helen Duncan, 45, of Kirkhill-drive, Edinburgh, and Miln-road, Portsmouth, was remanded charged under the agrancy Act with pretending ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1944
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 381 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CAN WE COMMUNICATE WITH THE DEAD ?

... the opening session 'questioned his earlier comments ; of Hayes Round Table at the New Inn on Thursday last week, on the Helen Duncan case Mr ' • introduced by Mr. H. Swatter said: For three case. 1 He was t . witnesses testified to the honesty ' Messenger ...

Published: Friday 20 October 1944
Newspaper: Bromley & West Kent Mercury
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 753 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CLASP

... trial at the Old Bailey yesterday said that at seances with Mrs. Duncan had seen his dead grandfather and sweetheart. I Mrs Helen Duncan medium, of Edinburgh and Portsmouth, one four people accused con p.rmg contravene the Act. 1733. pretend jig > exercise ...

Published: Friday 31 March 1944
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 378 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Daily Herald * SATURDAY,

... crowded round the dock she disappeared from sight—a massive, weeping woman in an expensive fur coat. Had Been For Seven Days Helen Duncan had never opened her mouth from start to finish of the seven-day trial—until the jury came back after 23-minutc retirement ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1944
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 420 | Page: 1 | 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

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

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

Medium defied sashcord and handcuffi 7aistechecvii:fetice

... 7aistechecvii:fetice News Chronicle Reporter MAGICIANS, equipped with sashcord, thread and handcuffs, once tested Mrs. Helen Duncan, 48-year-old medium, who with three others is being tried under the Witchcraft Act at the Old Bailey. The magicians were ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1944
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 428 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FIRST WOMAN

... causing a public mischief at services In a Psychic Centre above a drug store in Copnor-road, Portsmouth, are: — Mrs. Helen Duncan, 46, a medium; Ernest Edward Hartland Homer, druggist; Elisabeth Anne Jones, said to be known as Mrs. Homer; and Mrs. Frances ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1944
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 535 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Trap At Sean THE VANISHING CLOTH MYSTERY

... the same Act. to exercise conjuration: causing money paid by false pretences: and creating a public mischief, were: Mr*. Helen Duncan. 46. a medium. Riving addresses at Klrkhtll_ drive, Edinburgh, and Milton-road. Portsmouth; Ernest Edward llartland Homer ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1944
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 552 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

at seance

... at the end of yesterday's hearing the defence announced that they were going to call forty or fifty more witnesses. Mrs. Helen Duncan. a medium. Ernest Edward Hartland Homer, a Portsmouth druggist, Elizabeth Anne Jones, said to be known as Mrs. Homer. floor ...

Published: Wednesday 29 March 1944
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 585 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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