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Witchcraft Trial Sentences: Mrs. Duncan's Dramatic Cry

... found guilty of conspiring to contra vene Section 4 of the Witchcraft Act, 1735, WU passed today as follows :-- hIRS. HELEN DUNCAN (46), medium, of Kirkhill-drive, Edinburgh, and Milton-road, Portsmouth—NlNE MON THS' IMPRISONMENT. MRS. FRANCES BROWN ...

Published: Monday 03 April 1944
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
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MEDIUM IN COURT

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 29 February 1944
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 493 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

look at what’s going on in Guides lend helping hand

... track of the plot as the Slave of the Ring. The Emperor and Empress were played with pomp and ceremony by Bill Maher and Helen Duncan respectively, backed up by the lugubrious Grand Vizier, played by David Blayney. Jane Rowe and Kathryn Baines played the ...

HUT BULLETIN

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 503 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Family Announcements

... Rock Rd, Oundle, the beloved husband of Alice and loving father of Margaret, Kathleen and Bernard, a very dear grandad to Helen, Duncan and Lisa. Funeral service at St Peters Church, Oundle on Tuesday 24th November at 12.30 pm, followed bé cremation at Kettering ...

Published: Thursday 19 November 1987
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 489 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

our communit

... on Saturday in the grounds of the school from 6pm onwards. Tickets, costing £2.50 (£1.50 children), are available from Helen Duncan or: 01327 341340 or Julie Piercy on 01327 340342. A licensed bar will be available. The Friends do a wonderful job in raising ...

POWERSTOWN

... of Stanfort-road, West Derby, studied psychic who told the court that he had phenomena ACCUSED IN CASE CCUSED are Mrs. Helen- Duncan (46), giving a address Kirkhill- Edin- burgh. and Milton-road. Ports- mouth: Ernest Edward Hart- land Homer, druggist. ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1944
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 515 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POLICE AND MEDIUM

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 25 January 1944
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 598 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GREYHOUND RACING

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 19 May 1944
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 511 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CHARGE AGAINST MEDIUM

... said of Mrs. Duncan, the medium, Isn't she wonderful? She makes you think. He replied, I am thinking. Accused are : Mrs. Helen Duncan. 46, addresses in Edinburgh and Portsmouth; Erne t Edward Hartlaixl Honi.r, druggi-t, of Portsmouth; Elizaleih Jones, stated ...

Published: Friday 24 March 1944
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 624 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SWAPPER INBOX

... going to be reduced to the level of exhibition. _ Mr. Swaffer was giving evidence for the defence fa toe case of Mrs. Helen Duncan, toe medium, and three others accused in with seances in the Master Temple, Psychic Centre Church, at p°itomouto.th, himself ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1944
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 657 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GAINSBOROUGH STANDARD – Friday, December 6th, 2002 Recent books offer glimpse of area’s past and present

... Mystery. The books recounts local stories of murder about the supernatural such as the curious death of the famous medium Helen Duncan after a séance at West Bridgford; the haunted orchards at Norwood Park on the outskirts of Southwell and the conviction ...