THE DRUCE CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 58, 27 February 1908, Page 3

THE DRUCE CASE.

"MISS" lUmiXSOX'S ALLKC.AHoXS SOME SKlilUl'S IHAUtiKS London, Kebnury '25. Jn her confession of having committed perjury in the Druee case "Miss" Robinson, the witness from Xew Zealand, alleges that in WOfl a man calling himself l)ruce, whom Hollaml.y Unite afterwards declared to 1» his brother William, visited her at Christclmreli and offered her C4OIKI at first for wiitinz an attractive book telling all she knew nlioiit the late Duke of Portland. Then he tried to induce her to say that the , Diuce of the bazair was identical with j the Duke.

The object of the l>ook. lie said, was to rai-c money to defray legal cx|>enses. The visitor then urged her to -ay she came from America.

She received |wni|4ilets—sli t . believed from llollamby Driu-e—and from these she concocted her diarv. Then -lie leveled C 250-

she canic to Kuglaiid. and Mr. Knu-l»-r, her conn-cl, met her when she landed and inquired about the diary. Mr. Kiniber urged her to stick to her tale. "Stick to your guns:" he said. Mr. Kiniber endeavored to compel her to nuke statements based on the diary. She replied that she had not come to England to sweir falsely, but only to raise money on the diary. Mr Coburn, counsel for Druce. wanted tier to -wear about lead being in the coffin, but she refused. Her story of the lo«s oi the diary was true. She had had no letters from the Duke, but two from Dickens, which she had lost. J Mr. Kimber and Mr- Holloway, >be | added, had tried to dissuade her from confession, saying she would get Seven years. j

The case has been adjourned lor a week.

" MISS " ROBINSON'S STATEMENTS CONTRADICTED. Received 27th, 1.12 a.m. Ignition, February 26. Mr. Kimher, K.C., intervieweil. indignantly specifically contradicted "-\li-a" Robinson's statement*.