STILL ANOTHER. THE PORTLAND ESTATES.
A FRENCHWOMAN'S CLAIM. £ QUEER TALE. By .T6leera»a.-Pre« AssooUtion.—Copyrißfo*. PARIS, 25th November Madame Valette, an elderly woman* living in Paris, claims to be daughter of T. C. Druce's jia|wal son, by- a French -woman. /She assergTthat Dnice {alleged by the/claimant to the Portland estates to have been the fifth Duke of ! Portland) sent her father to Australia on a mission to discover his halfbrother. Her father was away a year, and\ on returning to Paris footpads fatally stabbed him, stealing his birth certificate, and other documents. Druce came to Paris in a terribly distressed state, and gave her a sealed envelope, bidding her to guard it carefully. .After hearing of Druce's death she was amazed to see him entering her tobacconist shop four years after the Franco-Prussian war. On her express* Ing astonishment, he replied, "Yes, Druce is dead; but Portland is still living !" Madame Valette never opened ths envelope, and now she proposes to send it to George Hollamby Druce, the claimant.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 128, 26 November 1907, Page 7
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167STILL ANOTHER. THE PORTLAND ESTATES. Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 128, 26 November 1907, Page 7
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