BEQUEST INVALID

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 24, 29 January 1923, Page 7

BEQUEST INVALID

COLLEGE TO TRAIN MEDIUMS.

(UNHID PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTfUGHT.I (AUSTRALIAN ■ NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, 27th January. The Court ruled that the Spiritualist bequest was invalid. A bequest to be good must be shown to, be fpr the public benefit. The Spiritualistio Alliance failed to supply evidence on this point worthy of the name, but merely offered vague expressions of opinion. The validity of a be.quest of £3000 to the London Spiritualistic Alliance to establish a training college for mediums was challenged in the Chancery Court by the residuary legatees under the will of a denationalised German, who left money to various hospitals and charitable 1 institutions. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle filed an affidavit showing from experience that, when normal methods failed, psychic treatment'succeeded. Medical affidavits on similar lines were a}§o submitted. Counsel for the legatees also thought that mediums were born, not rnada. A request for the training of conjurors would be a good charitable gift, enabling certain persons to earn an honest living, while a bequest to train people to perform the three-card trick would not be a good charitable gift.