Show THE FIE WE STORY STUB PROVED PROVID TO BE 01 FALSE ras grave of thomas charles druce Is opened and hu nan body found e W aness sa d rested a roll of lead london the body of thomas charles druce in high gate cemetery wag was exhumed monday morning just forty three years to a day after ita its burial the coffin v as found to contain the remains of a human body thus exi loding the romantic tale told by rob robert C caldwell and others who swore during the recent hearing ol 01 the druc perjury case that it con ta ned tied a t roll of lead the druce vault has thus given up its secret after ten years of 0 legal proceedings ce which have cost all told a I 1 considerable fortune A large part ot of this mone money was obtained from servant girls and other workers who were in deuced to buy shares in a company formed to prosecute the claims ol 01 george hollamby druce against the estate af the dule dul e of portland the charge of perjury against her bert druce is effectively disposed of 0 so far as the public Is concerned the entire long drawn out druce duke of portland controversy is at an end and the case of the claimant george hollamby druce has fallen to the ground despite the finding of the body george H druce says that he Is deter mined to continue to push his claim for the estate and title of the portland dukedom in substance the story of robert C caldwell whose testimony as a witness in the so called druce case led to the opening of the grave and upon which the claim of the druce heirs for the great fortune and the title of the duke of portland was based was to the effect that the duke of portland and T C druce a london store keeper were one and the same he had known the duke of 0 portland under both names he said and at t the he request of the dul e he had arranged a pretended death and mock funeral of druce so that his dual personality could be buried |