THE DRUCE CASE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8995, 4 December 1907, Page 5

THE DRUCE CASE.

CALDWELL RECALLED. A QUESTION OF AN INSCRIPTION. Received Decembe- 3, 10.58 a.m. LONDON, December 2. In the Druce perjury case Robert Caldwell, cr.iss-examined, said he was unaware that there was a tombstone in the Londonderry cemetery to the memory of his daughter Caroline. If there was, it must have been erected by his brother William, since Caroline was buried at Aghavea (?). If the Highgate grave were opened, and the coffin showed an inscription to the effect that Druce was buried there, it would not affect his testimony, as the inscription must have been placed on since the coffin was deposited there. A gardener who was employed by the fifth Duke deposed that Druce's photograph did n«t resemble the Duke. FURTHER WITNESSES. DRUCE ALIVE AFTER FUNERAL. Received December 3, 10.3 p.m. LONDON, December 3. Naylor, a photographer, identified Druce's photogaphs, which he took in 1861 and 1862. Druce wore a false beard. Witness saw Druce in the Baker street Bazaar in 1865. George PhilHp«, a draper, testified that he saw Druce there between 1865 and 1868 or later. It was common knowledge in the Baker street Bazaar after the mock funeral that Druce was alive and could be seen walking about and entering the bazaar. Caldwell, in reply to Mr Plowden (the Magistrate), said that his brother, having assumed his name, he was obliged to live up to it. Hence the inscription on the tombstone.