THE DRUCE CASE.
ABUSE OF CRIMINAL LAW. By Telegraph. Association.Copyright London, January 15. Sir Harry B. Poland, K.C., a wellknown lawyer, who has now retired from practice, declares, in a letter to the. Times, that the prosecution of Herbert Druce for perjury in deposing that T. C. Druce and the Duke of Portland were, separate entities, was a most scandalous abuse of criminal law, since the facts of the burial of Druce were overwhelmingly proved before the Probate Court in 1901.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13649, 17 January 1908, Page 5
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