DRUCE CASE AFTERMATH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 67, 9 March 1908, Page 3

DRUCE CASE AFTERMATH.

ANOTHER WIT.Ni.SS ARRESTED. CHARGED Willi PERJURY. Received March '.I, 0.35 a.m. Ijoiuloii, .March 7. Mrs. Margaret Hamilton, a witness iu the Unite case, lias been arrested o'l a charge of perjury in connection with the ease. She has been remanded.

In tlie course 01 her evidence Mrs. Hamilton said that in 1800 she met Thomas Charles Druee at Eustun, and remarked: "1 thought you were dead aud buried." He replied: "Well, 1 am myself again." He seemed to be annoyed to be addressed as Druee, aud showed her a bundle of handkerchiefs, with a coronet on them, worked by his wife Annie, which had much anuoved him. He used Mrs. Hamilton', scissors to cut the coronets off, and burned most of them. She recovered and kept one for some years, but burned it when toll it would be no use in the Druee ca6e. She hist saw Druee in 1870. He remarked: T am about to die." She I said: "1 hope you have repented of your sins." Cross-examined, Mrs. Hamilton admitted that her baptismal eertilicate described her as the daughter of Robert and Isabella Atkinson. She had benefited under the will of Mrs. Atkinson's mother. Witness left her grandmother when she was fourteen, and came to London alone to seek Iter father. Looking through a window of the Bakerstreet Bazaar, she recognised Druee, whom she had never seen before, by a photograph. He came out, and provided for her until her father returned from the Continent.