THE DRUCE CASE.
STILL ANOTHER CLAIMANT. A SENSATIONAL STORY. Received November 25, 9.50 p.m. PARIS, November 25. Madame Valeite, an elderly woman, living in Paris, claims to be the daughter of D. C. Druce's natural son, by a French woman. She asserts that Druce sent her father to Australia on a mission to discover his half-brother, and was away.a year. On returning to Paris footpads fatally stabbed her father, stealing his birth certificate and other documents. Druce came to Paris terribly distressed, and gave Her a sealed envelope, bidding her guard it carefully. After hearing of Druce's death, she was amazed at his entering her tobacconist shop four years after the Franco-Prussian war. On her expressing astonishment, he replied, "Yes, Druce is dead, but the Duke of Portland is still living." She never opened the envelope, and now proposes to send it to Hollamby Druce.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8989, 26 November 1907, Page 5
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145THE DRUCE CASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8989, 26 November 1907, Page 5
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