The Archive · 1903

The Planchette

Next we have an action brought by Mr. H. S. H. Cavendish, head of a jw lis of the Devonshire family, band of Miss Isabel Jay the Major and Mrs. Strutt and others aside a voluntary settlement. your of Major Strutt and his wife. allegation is that the settlement: was made under undue influence exerted upon him. by means of pretended messages from the spirit of his dead mother and other inhabitants of the invisible world. The defence, which we have not yet heard, will evidently be that Mr. Cavendish was a

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