SPIRITUALIST'S WILL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22030, 9 February 1935, Page 13

SPIRITUALIST'S WILL

LAWSUIT WITHDRAWN

CASE OF LADY CAILLARD SEANCE AFTER HER DEATH ALLEGED SPIRIT TALK By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received February 8, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 8 The Daily Mail states that Commander Guy Maund has withdrawn his application for a caveat against the late Lady Caillard's £25,000 will. Viscount Molesworth, in describing a seance at which Lady Caillard's ashes were placed on a chair, said: " Lady Caillard ' came through.' She reminded us that we had not carried out her ante-mortem instructions that champagne should be drunk at her funeral."

A cablegram from London on January 20 stated: The relatives of the late Lady Caillard, who died on January l<b, contemplate taking action to prevent probate of her will, which leaves her fortune to the Society of Progressive Souls, Limited. Sir Vincent Caillard died in 1930, after which his widow became interested in spiritualism and founded the Society of Progressive Souls. Viscount Molesworth, president of the society, published a book alleged to have been written by Sir Vincent's spirit. Lady Caillard believed that immediately the book was finished, in August, 1934, she would die. She asked Mr. Arthur Ford, a highly reputed United States spiritualist, to come to England and speak at her funeral. Mr. Ford came and waited until November, but Lady Caillard surprised herself by surviving. Under her husband's alleged spirit instructions, Lady Caillard told Mr. Ford she was deeding her town house, " The Belfry," to the Society of Progressive Souls for carrying on spiritualistic activities. Mr. Maurice Barbanell, editor of the Psychic News, says: " Mr. Ford is one of the world's leading mediums, but I attended the seances at the ' Belfry, and have no reason to doubt the genuineness of the manifestations." Commander Guy Maund, son of Lady Caillard, bv her first marriage, stated to the Daily Mail: "I am taking legal action because I have reliable information that there were strange doings at these seances. Once the communigraph was smeared with lipstick, _ after which the fingers of a person sitting near the communigraph were found to be smeared with red. " The spirits attending these seances were supposed to bring a sweet aroma, from the other world, but at one sitting a friend of mine grabbed, m the darkness, in the direction from which he heard a sound, and seized scent spray, which he still possesses.