THE DRUCE CASE.
JHHFT OF MISS ROBINSON'S DIARY KE POSSIBILITY PROVIDED FOR. Received Nov. 3, 4.3 p.m. London, November 2. In connection with the Druce ease, Jlisa Robinson, the witness from New Zealand, informed the police that while •he wm gazing in a shop window a thief •matched her handbag containing her diary. fortunately she had mad* extracts from the diary, and has copies of them. George HolUmhy Drace, interviewed, aaU that every page of Miss Robinson's diary had been copied, and was amply Mrtaeatkated.
Ikt theft was no doubt committed in the hope of destroying some of the ■Mteria! evidence to be brought by the tUimant (George Hollamby Druce) to the Dukedom of Portland. Miss Rohin•ob, who recently went from New Zealand to London to give evidence, acted aa teeretary to the late Duke, both it Baker-street Pazaar and at Welbeck 'Abbey (a scat of the Dukedom of Portland), and knew Thomas Charles Drace and the Duke to be the same person.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 4 November 1907, Page 3
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163THE DRUCE CASE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 4 November 1907, Page 3
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