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... MRS. HELEN DUNCAN A.R.P. woman spent £5,000 without check FINAL speeches will be made today in the Newcastle Home Office inquiry, which has now lasted 29 days. _ Yesterday • written statement was read from the Chief Constable and A.R.P. Controller. Mr ...
... Mrs. Duncan loses witchcraft appeal The appeals of Mrs. Helen Duncan, spiritualist medium, and others against convictions under the Witchcraft Act foUowing seances at Portsmouth were dismissed in the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday. In reply to counsel ...
... 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 ...
... WITCHCRAFT CASE APPEALS Mrs. Helen Duncan, the medium, sentenced to nine months' imprisonment in the Witchcraft Act trial at the Old Bailey, is appealing before three Judges in the Court of Criminal Appeal on Tuesday. Her appeal is against conviction ...
... Raymond Worth, told the court. There was a muttered conversation between the two, and I caught the words: B-- twister.' M= Helen Duncan, 46, a They grabbed the ghost at the seance. Lieutenant S. 11. Worth, left, and P.C. T. C. Cross, of the Portsmouth City ...
... TO SIGN ON Men born between April 1, 1926, and June 30, 1926, register under the National Service Acts on Saturday. Helen Duncan . was invited to shake hands with his dead sister Sally. He took hold of fat, clammy hand which was undoubtedly human At another ...
... attended a spiritualist meeting in Portsmouth, dived on a figure which appeared on a screen and found that it was Mrs. Helen Duncan (45), of Milton Road. Portsmouth, it was alleged at Portsmouth yesterday. Described as a spiritualist medium, she was accused ...
... for trial at. the Old Bailey Fake seances to cheat be- reaved people. including war bereaved were alleged. The medium, Helen Duncan, 46, giving addresses in Edinburgh and Portsmouth, was accused of conspiring to cheat and defraud for the average price ...
... never falter or withdraw their hands from the task they have undertaken. WITCHCRAFT CASE APPEALS DISMISSED Appeals of Mrs. Helen Duncan, Mrs. Frances Brown, Ernest Ed w a r d Hartland Homer and Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Jones against their conviction at the Old ...
... Witchcraft Act was in the Court of Appeal yesterday by Lam Caldecote, the Lord cS. Justice. 1 He ruled that the sentence. M»s. Helen Duncan, a Spiritual* medium, and three other the Old Bailey - must stand. PWned PWUCIIIIOII (jus |i . the seances were pretence ...
... for trial, charged with conspiring to cheat and defraud people by pretending that, at seances promoted by them, a medium, Helen Duncan, aged 46, of Milton Road, Portsmouth, was capable of communication with deceased persons. Those charged with Duncan were ...
... , went into the witness-box at the Old Bailey yesterday to describe experiments carried out to test the powers of Mrs. Helen Duncan, spiritualist medium. Mrs. Duncan, Ernest Edward Hartland Horn e r, druggist, Elizabeth Anne Jones, and Mrs. Frances Brown ...