ANOTHER PORTLAND CLAIMANT
a FRENCH WOMAN'S GENEALOGY. ' A REMARKABLE STORY. Rleeived Nov. 25, 11.30 p.m. Paris, November 25. _ Madame Yaiette, an elderly woman living in Paris, claims to lie a daughter of T. C. Druee's natural son by a French woman. She asserts that Drucc sent her father to Australia on a mission to discover his half-brother. He w*fts away a year, and on returning to Pari*, footpads fatally stabbed her father. stealing his birth certificate and other documents. Drure came to Paris terribly distressed, and gave her a scaled envelope, bidding her to guard it carefully. After hearing of Druee's death. hhe was amazed at his entering her tobacconist shop four yeans after the Franco-Prussian war. On her expressing astonishment, he replied: "Yes, Druce is dead, but Portland m still living." She never opened the envelope, and now proposes to send it to Hollamby Dntee.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 26 November 1907, Page 3
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146ANOTHER PORTLAND CLAIMANT Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 26 November 1907, Page 3
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