CABLE NEWS
THE PORTLAND ESTATES.
A FRENCH CLAIMANT
CIRCUMSTANTIAL STORY TOLD
United Press Association —Copyright (lloceivod Nov. 25, 11.30 p.an.) PARIS, Nov. 25. Madame Vialotte, an olderiy woman living in Paris, claims to be a daughter of T. C. Druce’e natural son by a French woman. She asserts that Druce sent her father to Australia on a mission to discover her lialf-brotlier. Ho was away for .a yoar. On returning to Baris footpads fatally stabbed her father, stealing his birth certificate and other documents. Druce came to Paris terribly distressed, and gave her a sealed envelope, bidding her guard it carefully. After hearing of Druce’s death she was amazed at his entering her tobacconist shop four years after the FrancoBrussian war. On her expressing astonishment ho replied, “Yes, Druce is dead, but Portland is still living.” She never opened the envelope, and now proposes to send it to Hollamby Druce.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2047, 26 November 1907, Page 2
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150CABLE NEWS THE PORTLAND ESTATES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2047, 26 November 1907, Page 2
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