ALLEGED PERJURY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 29

ALLEGED PERJURY.

CASE AGAIXST MRS ROBINSON,

LONDON, February 20. The prosecution of Mrs Robinson for alleged perjury in connection with the Druce case was continued to-day. Sir Charles Matthews submitted further evidence confirming the cablegrams as to Mrs Robinson's antecedents. Documents showed that she received £500 from two insurance companies in settlement of losses, which were stated at £2300, through the burning of her residence at New Brighton, New Zealand. Correspondence and cablegrams produced showed that the Druce Company accepted her overtures to be a witness, and paid her passage money to London, and also promised her remuneration in the event of success. Publications were seized at Mrs Robinson's lodgings relating to Druce, + ,he Duke of Portland, Welbeck, Charles Dickens, and the history of the Druce case, certain passages being marked. Copies of letters purporting to be from the Duke of Portland to Mrs Robinson, indicating that 6he was his much-beloved mistress, were also seized.

Inspector Drew stated that he found a draft of Mrs Robinson's evidence, stating that the Duke of Portland gave her £5000 in notes in 1876, and also other money. She had since confessed that the Portland letters were her concoctions, and tha... the evidence given by her in the box wa6 false. She claimed to have received another letter purporting to be from Charles Dickens, and written to warn her to be tight-fisted and hard as a grindstone in order to save a resurrection of trouble.

The case has been adjourned till Monday.