A GULLIBLE EXPLORER.
AMUSING LONDON SOCIETY
CASE.
(Naw York Herald Correspondent). London, March 7.
One of the most amusing court cases in which society is interested has developed this week. Mr Henry S. H. Cavendish, sa well known explorer, who at one time paid ardent court to Miss Edna May, and gave her magniffcent jewels, and then married Miss Isabel Jay, of the Savoy Theatre, alleges that he has lost some thousands of pounds through trusting to the spirits of the dead in the direction of his fortunes. Mr Cavendish, in an action sues a certain Major Strutt, Mrs Strutt, Dr Ranger, and others, seeking to set aside a voluntary settlement of his property, on the'grounds that he did not know the contents of the document when he signed it, and that undue influence was exercised over his mind by Mrs Strutt, who, by the aid of a planchette, made him believe the spirit of his dead mother was conveying to him, through her, advice as to what he should do.
Mr Cavendish, in giving his testimony, displayed such amazing faith in the powers of these persons to commune with spirits by means of a planchette that the Judge frequently showed considerable surprise, and oven irritation, that any man could have been so credulous. He trusted himself to Major and Mrs Strutt in everything he did, believing that his dead mother was consulted by them by means of a planchette, and was advising him how to use the immense fortune left to him.
His fortune originally was about 2,000,000 dollars. That was fonr years ago. Now he ha 3 only about 200,000 dollars. It was only when he had gone off on an Abyssinian expedition and found himself unable to commune by means of a planohette with the spirit of his mother that he began to grow suspicious.
A curious effect of the case, according to Messrs Jacques, principal manufacturers of the planchotte, is that its sale has risen to an extraordinary exteat, orders coming in from London aud the provinces and from Ireland and France as well.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 88, 16 April 1903, Page 2
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348A GULLIBLE EXPLORER. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 88, 16 April 1903, Page 2
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