THE DRUCE CASE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2045, 23 November 1907, Page 3

THE DRUCE CASE

MISS 'ROBINSON’S EVIDENCE.

GAVE NAME AS MADAME TUS'SARD,

ADMITS RECEIVING £250 TO COME TO ENGLAND.

United Pross Association —Copyright (Received Nov. 22, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 22.

(Miss Robinson was closely crossexamined regarding dates with which, she associated Dickens. She stated she would bo much deceived if Avory was correct. S'lio did not think the Lion Hotel at Worksop, where she stayed for a few days with her mother, was kept by a man named Pearce. She went to- lodgings kept by Mrs. Pearce, a- lone woman; her mother took lodgings. “I gave my name as Miidamo Tusstiud,” she added.

She was further questioned in a •direction to test her 10-cal knowledge of Welbeclc. Answering a final question slio admitted that £250 was cabled to her at Christchurch (N.Z.) last January to come to England. Tho hearing was adjourned to Wednesday if possible, otherwise Friday.

A CHI! LSTOH U'ltGH CLAIMANT. Press Association. CHHiISTCH U'KGH, Nov. 22. . Another ..possible claimant to the Portland estates has .appeared. Itccent- cables said that Cnllvin claims to bo a descendant of the firsttluke’s oldest son. who settled 'in America at the ibcginning of last century. Residing .in Christchurch is Percy C. Calkin, who, when shown ithe newspaper report by a- friend, said tlio anan was ibis uncle. Calkin does not know in what position hestands, but has taken steps to ascertain if tlio family has .any right to rank with other claimants. Ho lias written to his father, Samuel liicliard Calkin, Cameron street, Whangarei, asking what steps aro to ho rtuken to have the family represented in tlio investigations. .Samuel Calkin, the oldest living member of the family, is 04 years old. Ho came to New Zealand m/any years ago, whal-' inig. Ho settled in Auckland district, going to Whangarei, where •lie resided for some years, and has a family of five sons and three daughters. 'He took part- in the last American war, i’pr which ho has a pension. He was a teacher in New Zealand for fourteen years. All tlio members of the family .are musical, and Samuel ihas been a teacher of the violin, ibut is now proprietor of a coffee palace at Whangarei. . He is older than Mellville, a merchant, and William, hut the two men are only half-brothers. Percy has no knowledge of his father’s 'father, and cannot say whether it isthrou'gh him 'th.it William Calkin claims, hut one of his father’s brothers was the late John Baltist Calkin, a wellknown composer of sacred music.