ANOTHER MYSTERY.
SEALED ENVELOPE. UNOPENED MISSIVE FOR G. H. DRTJCE. STORY FROM PARIS. DRUCE DEAD BUT PORTLAND LIVING. BY TELEGRAM—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Rco. 'Nov. 25, 11.30 p.m.) i Paris, November 25. Madame Valette, an elderly woman living in Paris claims to bo the daughter of Thomas Charles Druce's natural son by a French woman. She asserts that Thomas Charles Dtom (who was, according to the claimant, G. H. Druce, the fifth Duko of Portland) sent her father to Australia on a mission to discover a half-brother. Hor father was away for a year. On his return to Paris, footpads fatally stabbed her father, stealing bis birtli certiQcato and other documents. Thomas Charles Druco thereupon camo to Paris, was terribly distressed, and gave her a sealed envelope, bidding her to guard it carefully. After hearing of the death of Thomas Charles Druce, she was amazed at Ilia fntering her tobacconist shop four years after tho Franco-Prussian war. On her expressing astonishment, he replied:— "Yos, Druco is dead, but Portland is still :Hng." She never opened tho envelope. Sho now proposes to send it to Georgo Hollambey Druco, tho claimant.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 53, 26 November 1907, Page 5
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187ANOTHER MYSTERY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 53, 26 November 1907, Page 5
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