THE DRUCE CASE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13463, 9 December 1907, Page 5

THE DRUCE CASE.

THE COFFIN AND CLOTHING. DETAILS OF THE FUNERAL. DOCTOR SAW DRUCE DEAD-. _____ . ' Press AissociatioD-By Teleeraph-Copvng_.« Received 4.10 p.m.. December Btli. LONDON, December 7. Henry Mark;, testified that -'lie **w Henry 'Viiteer, carpenter, making a coffin m 1864 with four rolls of lend busidu it. The coffin was afterwards taken to the TUker Hieefc baiwar. Marks .slid 'that hp last saw Diucfc on the afternoon prior to peeing th£ coffin. He heard that Drue© died suddenly, but never heard that there xn\& ntty myfetery connected with Ins death. Witness isuw Herbert Druce at the bazaar constantly" after the funVr.il.' Witness f saw the hearse and empty'coaches leaVe tlio b&zu'or with the coffin. ' ■'

Charles Bull. a\ tailor, identified a coat produced by J.. H. j Druce »aa one- .made by- 'witness's father for jtlio fifth Duke of Portland. Witness deponed that tlw lapels of, the coal, in the portrait of Druoe were like thosei on the ■ Duke of Port-' land's coat. The Duke's coat's wer© always made in sets of {hree-," enabling him to wear one coat over another. > Edmund Shaw, a. Southport doctor, has informed the " Daily News "' that he was a personal friend and neighbour of Druce afc Mihill, and medically, 'attended ,him throughout 1864 for dyspepsia. ' Druco underwent a serious operation l in September, afld the-doctor saw him thrice:.daily until the night of December'27th, when he left, dying very e&rjly ,'on the 28th./ ■' 'the doctor was (summoned to the, bed* side and found that Druco lias just died. He gave a- certificate Of death. ' He ai>-(•-isted the nurse to lay oub the body, and attended the funeral at Highgate, there being a dozen mourning couches. The doctor newr taw feigns of skin direaise on Druco's face. Druce- 'wore a natural dark bturd and side whiekeiii., Dr Hha!w went from New Zealand to Tasmania, settling in Southport in 1867.

THE NEW COMPANY. AN ORDER OF THE COURT.' ' Received. 5.13 p.m., December BUi. LONDON, Deoemtyir, 7. . Ju&lioc Joycfe, dealt with an application of the new Druce-Portland Company ■for an injunction to restrain Mr Blak-e----stori and Captain Hall, ex-ddicctois, from parting with any moneys. His Honour made an order directing the company not to part without the Court's permission with any portion of the £3OOO or £4OOO subscribed. Ho said, that he thought it would- .be found that John , Sheridan's comminwion notes gave no claim on the estate or oh .George Hollamby Druce's share of the estate, even, if his right were proved,'arid prima facie • the, whole thing- appeared to> be illusory. Defendants staLed that they. were unable to complete the purchase of the commission notes until, they had investigated Charles Edgar Druce's alleged prior-rights to thoire of George, Hollamby Druce, and that, perhaps, it would be nccesftury to take their subscribers' views, " f