"SPIRITUALISM'S CURSE."
SUICIDE "URGED BY THE UNSEEN . WORLD." , Strange letters were read at an inquest held at Manchester recently concerning tho death of Jolm Houghton, aged thirty-nine, a school teacher, of Whalley Range, who shot himself. Km letter . . to a friel "l he wrote: lhe spiritualism I Ihought such a blessing has turned out a curse to me. I have been urged into this for tho last twelro months by the unseen world, which I wish I had never found out," he wrote to his wifo. To his sisters he wrote: 'This would nover have happened it I had not bothered with spiritualism. Mrs, Houghton 6aid her husband took up spiritualism three years ago, and it seemed to upset him a pat deal. He had often threatened to take his own life and hers. "He had suggested that wo should both take poison or both go into the river and drown ourselves. The jury found that Houghton committed suicide while his mind was unhinged. /
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 449, 6 March 1909, Page 15
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