CAVEAT WITHDRAWN
LADY CAILLARD'S WILL'
PSYCHIC PHENOMENON
LONDON,; February 8
The "Daily Mail" states that Commander Guy- Maund has ' withdrawn the caveat against the • will of v his mother. Lady Caillard, who. left £2.5,000.
Lord Molesworth, describing a seance at which Lady.Caillard's ashes were placed on a chair, said: "Lady Caillard came through and reminded us, that we had" not carried out her instructions before she died .that chamagne should be drunk at her funeral."
A cable dated January 20 stated that relatives of Lady Caillard were were contemplating taking action to prevent the granting of, probate of her will leaving a fortune to the Society of Progressive^Souls, Ltd.
Sir Vincent Caillard died in- 1930, after which his widow became interested iri spiritualism and founded the Society of Progressive Souls, of which Viscount Molesworth is president. The society published a book, allegedly written by Sir Vincent's spirit.
Commander Guy Maund, son of Lady Caillard by her first husband, told the "Daily. Mail": "I am taking legal action because I have reliable information of strange doings at seances."
Before her. death on January 16 Lady Caillard arranged a seance on January 18. Listeners included Viscount and Viscountess Molesworth, Mr. Barbanell, editor of the "Psychic News," and; a Red Indian chief, Oske-nori-toni Mr. Barbanell declares that Lady Caillard addressed everybody by their Christian names. Her voice was weak but easily recognisable. "When the lights were turned up the spirit had left behind a'red tulip, a symbol of love from the-other world.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1935, Page 9
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