DRUCE-PORTLAND CLAIMS

Evening Star, Issue 12819, 9 December 1907, Page 6

DRUCE-PORTLAND CLAIMS

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. A XIAN WHO SAW THE COFFIN. LONDON, December 7. In the Druce ficrjury case at Clerkcnwell lolrco Court the witness -Murks testified Drat he last saw Dnrce on the afternoon prior to seeing the coffin. He heard that Druco died suddenly, but ho liad never heard of i»ny my«?tor\’ conjiccted witii his death. Be tw Herbert Druco at the bazaar constantly after the funeral. He saw a, hearse and t;vo empty OOHChCB lettVC tire Baker street bnzasir *vith a coffin. Charles ikdt, a toiler, identified a coat produced by J. H. Druce as one made bv witness’s father for the fifth Duke of Portland. He also deposed that the lapels on the. coat in the Druce portrait were like those on the Duke of Portland’s coat. Tho Duke’s coato were always- made in sets of three, enabling him t-o wear one over another. AGAINST THE DUAL PERSONALITY THEORY. LONDON, December 8. Edmund Shaw, a Southport doctor, has Informed tbe ‘Daily News’ that he was a personal friend and neighbor of Druce at Mihill. Ho medically attended him throughout 1864 for dyspepsia. Druce underwent a serious operation in September, and Dr Shaw saw him twice daily until tbe night of Deccmlxvr 27. when Druce was left dying. Very early on the 28th the doctor was .summoned to the bedside, and found that Druce had just died. Dr Shaw gave a certificate of death, and assisted a nurse to lay out tho body. He attended the rimeml .at II icrh.gtito, at -which there wore u dozen mourning oo.uhep. I)r Kim- said ho mover- saw anv sigrus of elcin <3itoC-a&o on Drill'll 6 {(ICO. Druco vvoie a ua.tup.il dark beard, with side whiskciK Dr Shi'iw went to New Zealand, and (lien lo Tasmania, settling at Southport in 1867. THE RIVAL SYNDICATES. LONDON, December 7. Mr Justice Joyce dealt with an application of the new Druce-Porthmd Company for an injunction to restrain X!r Rlakestoite and C-aptairr Hall, ex-directors, from parting with .my money-. The- Judge made an r.roer directing the company not to pa-rt without the Court’s p- rnfi‘aion with any portion of the £3 000 or £4,000 subscribed. He Raid he thought- it would he found that John Sheridan’s eon-muasion rotes gave no claim on the estate or on George- Dollamhy Dmen's share of the estate even if his riglit were proved, an<3, priina. fn-cie. tho whol« thine appeared to L* jlfiiwry, ‘-T'h-o* <3cf»»ncWnts? st-nt-e?i thart thry Yverr? imablo in comrldo tho purobato 'of commission notes until they had invostigat(*d Charier: Edgar Druoe's alleged prior rights to those of George Hollnmhy Dnrceand that perhaps it would bc : necessary to take tneir snhsenherr.’ views. [G. H. Druce is the claimant now before tlm public, hut- the new Druce-Port-land Company contend, through counsel, that bo cannot succeed in any cae*. .because, even should the argument he siKst-ainod that the fifth Duke of Portland arid the grandfather of C. H. Druce were one and the same j«rson. C. E. Druce. bring tbe grandson of an older brother of tho claimant’s father, stands in closer relationship t-o the Duk<*. G. E. Druce i.s in An-. trrrlia.] AN OLD ANTAGONTfiT. LONDON, December c. (Koreivc-i TtcconV.-r 9, at 8 oS a..ml The Dr S haw who grained an interview to the 'Daily News' gave evidence in the wdl suit, brought by Mit> Druce against tho executors of T. Dnnv in 1901. THE AMERICAN XMTNFMK T.ONDON, De.cc.mL’.r 8. (Rec- ived DeecmbcT 9, at, 8.57 a.m.) Juft ires Buckley and Kenneilv granted t.hc \Va.lden a]qn-ai ugaiinsl the (iecisii-n jiennitting Galdwell’s (ihe .New Ye.-;k accountant) evden.e in ihe ctmiing civil action to be taken on c(;nrTiii;.,-:fiin. The I»1 <I tljiit Ho xvtr.s a cnicfnl avh rAicss, illfil tlfiil d \v;t-i <”'.se;ili;|l Ills ;jt(iiv siiould 1 bo tcGtc«d "btr-fN/rc a pirv. [Caldwell was e.i.liad in support oi t lie U. 31. iJriiCD diiinis in llio jjorjurv i*;iko. His evidence was sensational an*l remarkable.]