A MOVABLE BEARD.

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

A MOVABLE BEARD.

ARRANGING OF MOCK BURIAL. \ SONS IN AUSTRALIA. (Rco. Nov. 28, 11.45 p.m.) London, November 28. Mrs. Hamilton continued that Druco always carried his board in his pocket. Druce told her: " 1 am always Druce whon 1 am woiiring.;a,;bcard.''.!|.. . ■ .' When she asked why ho kept the Baker Street Bazaar, he replied: "It's a very good thing. It makes lots of money," \Vitness visited Welbeck in 1849, and saw Druce there. When she addressed him as Druce, ho told her, "I am always Scott Portland to you." He spoko about his sons George and Herbert, and told her that George' was in Australia, and that ho meant to leave George a thousand pounds. tier father said: "That is not much." Druce replied: "It is quite enough for him." Sho and her father met Druce in London in 1864. He said: "Madge, I am going to die." She replied: "You don't look like it." ' ■ Her father said that Druce was going to cease to be Druco, and was going to havp a mock funeral. Druco suggestod gotting a corpse from a hospital or a workhouse. Her father suggested that he should use bricks or lead. Her father attended tho funoral of Druco. The former witness, Caldwell, swore positively that he passed through a P"rtly r made tunnel at Welbecf Abbey, in 186 J. Welbeck Mboy, the seat of the ]suke o Portland in Notts.! ifi three miles south of Worksop, where Miss Hobinson has said she was staying.