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Didn’t Want Pity

... Organiser, thanked Madame Helene. The meeting was presided over by Mrs. G. H. Banwell. MRS. DUNCAN’S APPEAL The appeal of Mrs. Helen Duncan, the medium, who was sentenced at the Old Bailey to nine months' imprisonment for conspiring to contravene the Witchcraft ...

Published: Friday 19 May 1944
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 254 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Constable’s Dive At ‘‘Spirit” Figure A WAR RESERVE constable, one of a number of police officers who attended a ..

... officers who attended a Spiritualist meeting in Portsmouth, dived on a figure which appeared on a screen and found that it was Helen Duncan, of Kirkhill-drive,, Edinburgh; and Milton-road, Portsmouth, It was alleged at Portsmouth to-day. Duncan, 40-year-old married ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 1944
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 264 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Mrs. Duncan’s Appeal TH E Court of Criminal Appeal, in a considered judg> ment to-day, dismissed the appeals of ..

... Mrs. Duncan’s Appeal TH E Court of Criminal Appeal, in a considered judg> ment to-day, dismissed the appeals of Mrs. Helen Duncan, Mrs. Frances Brown, of Newbottle, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham; Ernest Edward Hartland Homer and Mrs. Elizabeth Ann JoneSj ...

Published: Monday 19 June 1944
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 270 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LATEST MEWS OCCUPlED.—Fojmigny' on main from Dayeux to has been occupied. Allied war reporters accom- forward ..

... was heard for second day in Court of Criminal Appeal today. Judgment was reserved until Monday week. Mr. Loseby, for Mrs, Helen Duncan, the medium, and other appellants, said that where person was accused of being Imposter that person should given opportunity ...

Published: Friday 09 June 1944
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 345 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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

Spiritualists Welcome Case:

... “It is not a public mischiet if it acn be scientifically proved that the ancient philo- ACCUSED IN CASE ACCUSED are Mrs. Helen Duncan (46), giving an address at Kirkhill-drive, Edinburgh, and Milton-road, Portsmouth; Ernest Edward Hartland Homer, druggist ...

Published: Monday 27 March 1944
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 741 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

K.C.’s Ghost Story At Seance Trial Medium’s Alleged Fraud By “Towel” Conjuring THREE WOMEN, one medium, and man ..

... counsel for the prosecution alleged that a ghost was produced by a bogus conjuring trick TJEFORE the- court Were Mrs. ■ L Helen Duncan (46), a medium, giving addresses at Kirkhili-drive, Edinburgh, and Milton - road. Portsmouth: Ernest Edward Hartland Homer ...

Published: Thursday 23 March 1944
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 780 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

4 LINCOLNSHIRE ECHO HfjrtniUlfi 7 1ST To I Lincoln 26101 Echo-Ads 32339 LINCS MAN LEFT £61136 Hire purchase ..

... and Mr Stephen Roy Deacon of Dogsthorpe Peterborough who were married at Barnbygate Methodist Church Newark Centre Miss Helen Duncan of Granary Close Waddington and Mr Jim Atwell of the officers mess RAF Stafford after their wedding at Methodist Church ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1978
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 764 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MEDIUM SENT TO PRISON FOR 9 MONTHS

... back, but had been informed that that could not be done. Cries “Oh, Cod”: Old Bailey Scene At Seance Trial Sentences MRS. HELEN DUNCAN, KNOWN THROUGH. OUT BRITAIN AS A SPIRITUALIST MEDIUM, COLLAPSED MOANING IN THE OLD BAILEY DOCK TO-DAY, WHEN THE RECORDER ...

Published: Monday 03 April 1944
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 1951 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MONTGOMERY’S SECOND FRONT BATTLE CRY

... He had a cigarette and matches ready. She had “quite a staring look” about her eyes. ACCUSED IN CASE ACCL'SED are Mrs. Helen Duncan (i(i), giving an addres- at Kirkhlll-diive, Edinhurgli, and Millon-road, Portsmouth, Ernest Edward Hartland Homer, drnggist ...

Published: Friday 24 March 1944
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 2186 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Lincolnshire Echo INTERNET - wwwthisislincolnshirecouk ECHO ADS 804444 Saturday October 23 1999 15 Brought to ..

... power has shifted over the past 12 months (T) 800 THE LAST WITCH TRIAL A bizarre trial of 1944 which saw 45-year-old medium Helen Duncan accused of revealing wartime secrets after she predicted various events before they became public knowledge (R) (T) 900 ...

Published: Saturday 23 October 1999
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 1957 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

8 LINCOLNSHIRE ECHO Saturday August 23 1980 Tel Lincoln 26101 Echo-Ad 32333 PROGRAMMES SUBJECT TO ALTERATION ..

... 30: The English Novel Abroad i2i Chinua Achebe 8 00: The Last Witchcraft Trial or An Interrupted Seance The 1944 trial of Helen Duncan 900: News 9 05- With Great Pleasure iSi iseriesi The Rt Hon Edward Heath MP presents personal choice of poetry and prose ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1980
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 3836 | Page: 8 | Tags: none