But after hearing many days of evidence about the ladies' way of life, about crystal-gazing and premonitions of death, the court found Miss Mountstephen innocent.
The Chief Justice, in delivering his verdict, remarked that the true circumstances of Miss Garnett-Orme's death would probably never be known.
Burkitt) turned down Miss Mountstephen's application on grounds of 'fraud and undue influence in connection with spiritualism and crystal gazing'.
Mr Charles Jackson, a painter friend of many of those involved, had died suddenly, apparendy of cholera, two months after Miss Garnett-Orme's mysterious death.
The case managed to reach the occult community in London, with the following appeal appearing in Light – A Journal of Psychical, Occult, and Mystical Research:[10]"Immediately after the funeral of Miss Orme, Miss Stephens succumbed to a severe and prolonged illness.
We understand that the correspondent who sent the foregoing story from India to Germany gave his name and address, and was regarded as a trustworthy writer.
Evidence showed that Miss Garnett-Orme had been initiated into crystal-gazing and that she had believed in her approaching death, for which she had made elaborate preparations.
We wonder if any ·readers of ' LIGHT' in India can supply us with fuller particulars of this case, especially of the alleged spiritualistic part of it.
Rudyard Kipling wrote to Arthur Conan Doyle, urging him to write a story about a "murder by suggestion".
Although Conan Doyle never visited to investigate, he mentioned it to Agatha Christie and her debut The Mysterious Affair at Styles was the result.
They lived in Kenfield House, Nainital (now part of Kumaun University) and had two daughters, Patricia and Catherine.
His first wife remarried in Dehradun to Sir Herbert Mullaly,[25][26][27] who accepted the surrender for the British in the Second Boer War.