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... spiritualists Both defend the name of Helen Duncan “The seance was so long ago that the people who really know about it are either too old to remember or have died” said Shirley She and her husband insist that Helen Duncan would not have been capable of a ...
... SPIRITUALIST CONVICTED FINE OF £10 ON FRAUD CHARGE Mrs. Victoria Helen Duncan, a well-known Spiritualist medium, of Niddrie Mains. Edinburgh, was found guilty of fraud, and fined £10, with the alternative of one month'fi imprisonment, the Edinburgh Sheriff ...
... WEDNESDAY The Last Witchcraft Trial (R 4 7.45 pm) The last witcheraft trial in Britain took place only 35 years ago when Helen Duncan, a spiritualist medium who claimed to materialise the spirits of the dead, was said to be a security risk. June Knox- Mawer ...
... displays bring to the people of Nottingham Sound case for a ‘witchcraft’ pardon NOTTS occupies just a footnote in the story of Helen Duncan The police raid on the medium’s seance in West Bridgford in 1956 happened years after the events for which she was tried ...
... lasting- seven* days, had been found “Guilty” of conspiring to contravene Section 4 of the Witchcraft Act (1735)/ Mrs. Helen Duncan (40), medium, described of Klrkhiil-drive, Edinburgh. and MUton-road, Portsmouth, was sentenced to nine months imprisonment ...
... Old Bailey yesterday, when witnesses spoke to seeing materialisation of relatives. The defendants in the case ar \lrs. Helen Duncan HP), medium, giving addresses at St. T Portsmouth; Elizabeth A”* Jones, giving the same address Homer, and said by the ...
... was laughing at her. The Recorder (Sir Gerald Dodson) : one is laughing at you. COMMOTION AT A SEANCE. defendants are: Helen Duncan, 46, a medium, of Edinburgh and Portsmouth Ernest Edward Hartland Homer, druegist, Portsmouth. Elizabeth Anne Jones, the ...
... Mrs. Duncan's Appeal Fails The Court of Criminal Appeal, in considered judgment, to-day, dismissed the appeals of Mrs. Helen Duncan (at the time of the trial described as of Kirkhalldrive, Edinburgh, and Miltonroad, Portsmouth) ; Mrs. Frances Brown, of ...
... MEDIUM IN COURT Sequel To Seance Scene ALBERT & PEGGY THE SPIRITS Helen Duncan, 46, of Edinburgh and Portsmouth, described as a Spiritualist medium, was charged as Portsmouth to-day with using certain subtle means by pretending tc hold communications ...
... HUT BULLETIN The Wendy Hut FIRST place in this week's new 6 comes something cheering. One of our members, Mary Helen Duncan, has for some time been knitting for soldiers. Now she tells us that she has received three letters from men in France, saying ...
... endangered the body of woman described as spiritualist medium, was alleged by the defence at Portsmouth to-day. The woman, Mrs. Helen Duncan, 45, of Edinburgh and Portsmouth, was charged under the Vagrancy Act, with using certain subtle means by pretending to ...
... Ocean. 8.35—525. Lester Pirate, Gele Nant, Barton Ataxy. Loafer's Lawyer, Corona tion. Medium's Appeal The appeal of Mrs. Helen Duncan, the medium, who was sentenced at the Old Bailey to nine months' imprison for conspiring to contravene the Witchcraft Act ...