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On her release in 1945, Duncan promised to stop conducting séances, but she was arrested during another one in 1956. She died at her home in Edinburgh a short time later. [5] Duncan's trial almost certainly contributed to the repeal of the Witchcraft Act 1735, which was contained in the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 (14 & 15 Geo. 6. c.
Yorke's case demonstrated that, following the earlier trial of Helen Duncan, the Director of Public Prosecutions had decided that the Witchcraft Act 1735 was still useful in dealing with cases involving mediums. Although the Act was used as a threat in several subsequent cases, the last in 1950, this was the last in which someone was actually ...
Helen Duncan: The last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735, in April 1944. Her conviction led to the repeal of the Act and the introduction of the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 . Jane Rebecca Yorke , the last person convicted under the Witchcraft Act 1735, in September 1944.
About eighty people were accused of practicing witchcraft in a witch-hunt that lasted throughout New England from 1647 to 1663. Thirteen women and two men were executed. [4] The Salem witch trials followed in 1692–93, culminating in the executions of 20 people. Five others died in jail.
Long title: An Act to repeal the statute made in the first year of the reign of King James the First, intitutled, An Act against conjuration, witchcraft, and dealing with evil and wicked spirits, except so much thereof as repeals an Act of the fifth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Against conjurations, inchantments and witchcrafts, and to repeal, an Act passed in the parliament of ...
Helen Duncan (1897–1956), medium and last person imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735; Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742–1811), Home Secretary and Tory politician; John Ritchie Findlay (1824–1898), owner of The Scotsman newspaper, philanthropist and donor of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
[1] [2] [3] In 2008, DNA evidence implicated Bruce Allen Smith, an original prime suspect in the murder who had died in 1992, and all of the Beatrice Six were exonerated the following year. [4] [5] Most of the defendants were persuaded by the police psychologist, Wayne Price, that they had repressed memories of the crime. [5]
On 27 August 1645, no fewer than 18 people were executed by hanging at Bury St Edmunds. 16 of the 18 people executed that day were women. [11] The executed were: Anne Alderman, Rebecca Morris and Mary Bacon of Chattisham; Mary Clowes of Yoxford; Sarah Spindler, Jane Linstead, Thomas Everard and his wife Mary Everard of Halesworth