MRS. ROBINSON.
, CONFESSION BRIHFUL OF CHARGES.
ALLEGED INDUCEMENTS. ■ PORTLAND AND DICKENS LETTERS. -• oi' TEi.Edtirn—rnEss association—coriinoirr. r '..■■■; i . j. London, February 25. -Tho confession o£ Mrs. Robmson, a witness > in the Druce ease who is charged with porjury,; alleges that ; in 1906 a man calling, himself Druce, whom George Hollamby Druce i ':'(the. claimant to;thd.'Pbrtland. Estate) afterwards declared to, Mosihis brother William, ''Visitcd. ; -her : , : in/Chri&ji:liurch,[ New'. Zealand; and offered her £40QQ, in the first case, to , ./.write ail iattractivoippiik, about ■ all sho .knew , about tho Duko of Portland: , THE "DUAL,PERSONALITY »
,Ho also, tried to-.induce .her to say that r; C!.' Druce, of tho/.-Bakcr- Street Bazaar, vas. identical, with thd Duko. The object of, : ; ihebook; was, to. raise* money, for legal ox- - jjpnsosl-" : : ■<.;, .continues, urged 1 ae'r, to; sjiy ith'at'.'she: caTnolfrom;'America./Sho : - had received' paraphldtls, which she 'believed jamo.from George liollamby Druce, and con- . cocted her diary. . Sh'e/rMeived; ; £2sd,''and 'Cariio,: to' England. Mr. Kimberf' (solicitor; for G. H. Druce) met . hor on , landing,'., and; enquired'regarding her diary. He urged 'her to stick to her tale, to. '-'stick to her guns." • '. y CONCERNING THE "DIARY" Mr. ICimber endeavoured to compel her to on, the diary. She. ;. Mver .camd^to-England to swear falsely,but;' only to' raise monfeV' on the diary. ' ; ; - ~ Mr. . Cobuin; thei Australian 'solicitor who
,■ noted as G. H. Dhice's adviser, wanted, her. - to swear abqnt'a Icjad cofOn, but sho refused. :: loss of tlio diary' .was ! rv. She had no letters .written- by the Dnl>o, ant ;had had tro.- from Charles Dickens, /j^tvliicli : shihad lost., j While she had been in Holloway Gaol Mri' Kimber had tried Wdissuade. her; from, mating a confession, 1 saying S' get seven years' , 1 ' The further, .hearing of the ease' n'as ad--1 ourned for a vweh. , v MR .KIMBER'S DENIAL. : ■; ;,-.w (Rec. "IM>. 27, 0.27 - f a.jm.) . "■ • 1 1 London, 'February 26. •;« ' Mr.'Kimber, iintorviewed, indignantly and . specifically.-. coniriidicted -Mrs, 1 ' Robinson's ■ Btateiiienti. i . iv'/ ''•
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 132, 27 February 1908, Page 7
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