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...Died. Mina Stinson Crandon, 53, better known as "Margery" the medium whose claims of psychic communication with the dead raised serious controversy from 1924 to 1935; in Boston. Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed in her; Harry Houdini offered $5,000 to charity if she produced any "manifestations" which he could not duplicate. Charity never got the money. Before Houdini died in 1926 he said he would communicate with the living after his death if he could, and Magician Joseph M. Dunninger awaited a "message" on every anniversary of his death. "Margery" died the day after the 15th...
...Charlie Ouyerack said that another Eskimo had told him that he (Charlie) also was Christ and he believed it. Sala and Ouyerack together, with their disciples murdered three Eskimos who doubted that they were Messiahs. Two women and four children died two months later when a woman called Mina drove a whole village out on the ice of the Bay in a blizzard to wait for a visit from "Jesus...
...jails, the verdicts were satisfactory. The two Messiahs, Sala and Ouyerack, were convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to two years apiece. One disciple was sentenced to a year's hard labor, three others were released. With the prisoners when the schooner sailed back to Moose Factory was Mina. The jury had decided that she was insane...
...months ago swart, dynamic, 70-year-old Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, Director-General of Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., one of the world's largest producers of crude petroleum, married his third wife, Charlotte Mina Knack, a German (TIME, June...
Married. Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, 70, general managing director of potent Royal Dutch-Shell, divorced last month by Lydia Pavlovna Koudoyarov, Lady Deterding, on grounds of misconduct: and Charlotte Mina Knack, 38; in Amsterdam...