DRUCE CASE SEQUEL

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 99, 20 January 1908, Page 7

DRUCE CASE SEQUEL

ANOTHER ARREST.' MISS ROBINSON; CHARGED WITH ■; 1 PERJURY. or IKr.EOBiPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGnj. (Rec. Jan. 19, C.2 p.m.) London, January 18. At tho iustauce .of the Director .of Public Prosecution's, Miss Mary Robinson, a witness in tho Druco case, has bec-n arrested on .a charge of perjury, . ' ' "A TISSUE OF FALSEHOODS." ■>.' ASSISTANCE HINTED AT. EVIDENCE FROM NEW ZEALAND. (Rec.. Jan.: 20, 1.5 a.m.) . ." . .London, ,January 19. Miss .Robinson has 'been;, rqmand'ed- 'for; a week. Sir Albert Do Rutaen refused bail. Sir Charles Matthews .stated f .t)iat,/;Miss Robinson's evidence was a .•tissue of falsehoods.;- Ifc was, ib said,; difficult;.to' believe, that so elaborate a utory had 'beeu put forward without, assistance. v ■ - He hoped that inquiry y'oulddisoover. the source ,of this assistance. It was possible that it would be necessary to bring/Vituesses from New Zealand. . ' - WAS THE CRIMINAL LAW ABUSED? ' London, January 17. Mr. Edmund Kimbor, who appeared as one of the prosecuting counsel in the Druco perjury. case, condemns' Sir Harry Poland's assertion that the prosecution' of.Herbert Druco was a scandalous ami.se of the criminal law, and justifies the criminal prosecution procedure. - ', Miss Robinson was the' New Zealand witness who stopped far some time in Christchurch, I'.and who stated that, after hor'-arrival-in .London to give ovidthce on behalf, of tho'claimont, George Hollamty- Druco, a bag 'containing her uiary was sDatcucd. from her grasp as sbts was standing _in a London: street. She said she had previously made copies of ' portion's of the diary; these the Magistrate' (Mr: Plou<lcn), wueii- hearing the charge of perjury,"against Herbert' Druco (since acquitted) 1 declined to admit as evidence. The inain - importance to claimant of Miss /lfcobinson's * on\f testimony given in courthvas that' it sought'to show that some years after tin? alleged burial of T. C. Druco in 1861. Miss Eobin'son knew the latter both as Druee and. n3 the' late'fifth-Dulco fcf Portland. She stntsd that the novelist, Charles Dickens, introduced her to Druce, and from Dickens she Jlrst learned of. the dual personality. Publication, prior to her, giving evidence, of. alleged extracts from the diarv of Miss Robinson incensed the Dickens-family.