THE DRUCE CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 20 November 1907, Page 3

THE DRUCE CASE.

London, November 18. A thousand people inspected the ' grave of the late T. C- Druce at lligagate cemetery. The grave is closely guarded. Many ladies of title have engaged scab} on the bench at Clrkenwell Court to which the hearing of the Druce case has been transfrred. Robert Caldwell, iu his evidence In the Druce case stoutly denied identity with his brother, who had been accused of embezzlement. He was positive he had passed through a partly made tunnel between Welheck and the workshop in 1864. He oenied that he had ever been defendant in a police court. He swore positively that he had never lived at Londonderry with his wife. CALDWELL'S EXAMINATION CLOSKS MISS ROBINSON'S EVIDENCE. THE MISSIMf DIARY. WAS IT I'ITU'OSKLV LOSTr ReeiveJ I'.ltli. 10.22 p.m. London, November 11).

Caldwell denied that he and his brother held a leasehold property in Londonderry in ISOB. lfe denied assigning to Christy in iH7I the insurance policy of Robert Caldwell's life. His brother might have told him he made the assignment. Mr Plowden, the magistrate, put a series of searching qustions. He remarked that some people believed Druce was the real person who died. Did any of these people ask to see the corpse before burial? Caldwell: No. They were, unaware that he was dead until the iuneral was over. Mr Plowden did not permit of the production of the copy of Miss RobinRon's diary on the ground that it was made by a third party. Miss Robinson stated she also copied it. to which Mr PI owed n replied that possibly the copy would be unnecessary.

Miss Robinson {from New Zealand) testified that she knew T)ruee in isfil and again a* Dnme at Walbeck in ISfis' when she was introduced bv Charles Dickens. whom she met at Boston, in Amenei. and at whose instigation she became engaged. She received at the ri 8 0p 'l ?ers for Dr,,(,c - the name I of Madame Tussard. '^ Tor J * remarks, in objecting to &tfl C of' V th d "" 7 ' > show " d tha t the date of the manufacture of the naner ,i h ° origina ' was written was questioned during its custody in ton-