THE EXHUMATION PROCEEDINGS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 6, 8 January 1908, Page 5

THE EXHUMATION PROCEEDINGS.

HOLLAMBY DRUCE'S COUNSEL

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(Received Jan. 7, 10.59 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 7

Mr Plowden, the magistrate, asked Mr Atherley Jones, counsel for Hollamby Druce, what impression Dr. Pepper's very remarkable evidence had produced in hi« mind?

Mr Jones said that it was impossible to press the case further. He complained that be did not deserve the obloquy cast upon the prosecution, considering that, except in regard to one witness, their large body of evidence was unshaken by strenuous and prolonged cross-examination.

After the exhumation, continued Mr Jones, it was impossible> to deny that it had been clearly demonstrated that Druce.died in London'and was buried at Highgatfe, and that the body exhumed was the same body as that buried. There was also strong evidence to show that the body was Druce's. While Herbert Druce was right in refusing to 'open the grave under menace of prosecution, Mr Jones added, ho had shown wise judgment in yield-, ing to the moral pressure of public1 , opinion. , . •„;-/, >