THE DRUCE CASE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9032, 20 January 1908, Page 5

THE DRUCE CASE.

/ ' A CRITICISM CONDEMNED. LONDON, January 17. Mr Edmund Kimber, who appeared as one of the prosecuting counsel in the Druce perjury case, condemns Sir Harry Poland's criticism, and justifies the criminal prosecution procedure. *

(Sir H. Poland, K.C., in a letter to "The Times" (London), contends that the prosecution of Herbert Druce for perjury was a most scandalous abuse of the criminal law, since the fact 3 regarding the burial of his father, T. C. Druce, had been overwhelmingly proved before the Probate Court in 1901.) ANOTHER ARREST FOR PERJURY. Received January 19, 5.4 p.m. LONDON, January 18. At the instance of the Director of •Public Prosecutions, Miss Mary Robinson, a witness in the Druce case, has been arrested on a charge of perjury. MISS ROBINSON REMANDED FOR A WEEK. Received January 20, 1.5 a.m. LONDON, January 19. Miss Robinson has been remanded for a week. Sir Albert de Rutzen refused to allow bail. Sir Charles Matthews stated that Miss Robinson's evidence was a tissue of falsehoods. It was difficult to believe that so elaborate a story could be put forward without assistance. He hoped' the inquiry would discover the source. Possibly it may' j be necessary to bring witnesses from New Zealand.