According to LIFE magazine, the party featured “a dressmaker’s dummy, a Nazi uniform, nails, axes, tom-toms and plenty of Jamaica rum,” and was inspired by a book by occultist and writer ...

Renee Slater, 64, had gone on trial after putting forward dressmaker’s dummy Helena Torry as a candidate. As Helena’s election agent, Slater put her name on the nomination papers and hand ...