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SPIRIT OVERSEES HUNT FOR A WILL.

after many years

Down in the heart of Lancashire, a little old world village is in a flutter. A woman from London is there hunting, with the aid of local volunteers, for a will which was hidden over 250 years ago, and which she believes, when found, will prove her to be the heir to a fortune of several hundred thousand dollars, which is now in chancery.

She is doing this, she says, at the request of a ghost—a restless ghost —which got into communication with her at the first Spiritualistic seance she ever attended iu her life, and told her that it knew where the loug-lost will of old John Bradley, a rich farmer of Cromwell’s tiurp. whose lineal descendant she claims to be, is buried.

This woman is Mrs James Anderson, whose home is in Gunnersbury, one of the suburbs of London. The spirit who claimedto know of the whereabouts of the missing will, described itself as that of John Bradley's wife, the only person he told where he bad hidden his last testaro'ent. Mrs And ers Q n * s nqt a Spiritualist. §he attended the seance at the invitation of a friend. This was in August last, and hardly was the seance in full swing before the tßedimh announced that a spirit wanted to communicate with Mrs Anderson, as it could get no rest until a great wrong bad put right. Tbep it

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1065, 18 February 1913, Page 4

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SPIRIT OVERSEES HUNT FOR A WILL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1065, 18 February 1913, Page 4

SPIRIT OVERSEES HUNT FOR A WILL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1065, 18 February 1913, Page 4

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