SELF-CONVINCTED. A CONFESSION OF PERJURY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1908, Page 7

SELF-CONVINCTED. A CONFESSION OF PERJURY.

THE DRUOE CASE. "MISS ROBINSON'S" LITTLE STORY. By Telegraph.— Pr«3 Association.— Copyright. (Received February 5, 9.43 a.m.) LONDON, 4th February. "Miss Robinson" has made a full confession that she committed perjury in the recent perjury charge against Herbert Druce. AN ACTION BY G. F. DRUCE. DISMISSED BY MASTER OF SUPREME COURT. AN APPEAL. (Received February 5, 8.53 a.m.) LONDON, 4th February. The Daily Mail reports that Judge G. A. Bonner, Master of tho Supreme Court, in Chambers, dismissed a civil action brought by George Hollamby Druce against Lord Howard de Walden claiming estates which he (Lord de Walden) obtained from the Portland Estate. Mr. Arnold Statham, who appeared for Druce, gays notice of appeal. "Miss Robinson" swore that she was a friend of Charles Dickens, 1 the noveli't, that sh» was on intimate terms with the late T. C. Druce, whom she knew also as the tifth Duke of Portland, that her father was an American planter, and many other things. Under eross-cxamimtion, sho stuck to her story in its esssntial points, and, ganerally, cariicd through her part with considerable skill. According to the prosecution, "Miss Robinson" was the wife of a bulchar, who worked as a shepherd at Worksop in 1870. Both sailed for New Zealand in 1874, and were residing at Wnimate, in South Cantsibury, " in 1875. "Miss Robinson" was thn mother of seveial children, in.-ludmg Mrmd», born in 1831, who, ai Maud O'Neill, appeared an a- witness before Mr. Plowden, in the perjury charts against Herbert Druce, but who 'had not stated her relationship or real name. Aft-i- her husband>, death, which occurred in 1884, "Mi*s Robinson" kept boardinghouses, including ons at New Brighton, and another in Palsgravo-ntreet, Christchurch, until 1906. Sb-3 had been paid £3 17s weekly since her arrival in England. The claim against Lord Howard de Walden rested on the alleged fact that tho fifth Duk? of Portland, ostensibly a, bichelor, was in reality married twice, and that G. H. Druce is descendant ofj one ,of those marriages. On the Duke's death tho title passed to his cousin, but ths C3l3lcs of the barony of Ogle went to his sifjtrr Lucy, who rnarritd Lord Howard do Walden.