"SPIDER AND FLY."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 56, 29 November 1907, Page 5

"SPIDER AND FLY."

A FORBIDDEN MARRIAGE. (Rec. Nov. 28, 10 p.m.) . London, November 28. Replying to tho Magistrato, Mr. Plowden, Miss Robinson mado further reference to Charles Dickens, the novelist (who, according to witness, first introduced her to Druce, whom she afterwards found out to be the fifth Duke of Portland).' Diokons, said Miss Robinson, first nicknamed the Duko of Portland "Resurrection," becauso he was ''two men in one body." The workmen at Wolbeck Abbey (tho Duke's seat) applied to him tho same. namo, owing to the Duko's unexpected appearances from tunnels., - Miss Robinson deposed that during a Jccade the lato fifth Duko of Portland paid her £100 a year in notos and cash. She never received any money beyond her salary, excopt ono £5 note. Sho had nevor been inside Welbcck, though [the Duke had invited her. She was a littlo afraid to go. The Magistrate suggested that it might be a case of "tho spider and the fly." Witness/ agroed. < , Sho admitted posting for Druco a letter addressed "Pero Lachaiso Cemetery, Paris." When asked the namo of tho corpso ! tho letter was for, she replied tha tit might havo been addressed to tho manager of the comotery. Mrs. Hamilton, aged 77 years, a sprightly and agile witness, deposed that her father was Robert Lonnox Stewart, and hor godfathor was tho fourth Duko of Portland. His son, Scott Portland', alias Draco, was her father's great friend, and called hor "little cousin." He wanted to marry her, only her fathor refused. When shown a pho'tograph of Druce, wearing a beard, witness exclaimed, "That's dear old Scott."