Show LAYS GLAI CLAM n TO DUGAL George Druce to Oust His Grace of Portland MYSTERY SURROUNDS CASE SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY OF A Ap PHYSICIAN p H CI AN London Nov 8 Hundreds of people vainly fought for admittance to the police court today when the hearing of the famous Druce mys mystery mystery mystery tery case was resumed Herbert Druce son of the late lato Thomas Charles Druce Is In the present proceedings charged with perjury by his nephew George Hollan by Druce in connection with the Druce claim to the estates of the duke of ot Portland which claim dates back to 1893 This claim which has been vigorously contested by tho the pres present present present ent duke of ot Portland centers about the theold theold theold old question whether Thomas Charles Druce at one time the owner of ot the famous Baker street bazar who is said to have died yea years ears s ago was not the tho same person as the eccentric fifth duke of Portland who died in Alleged Theft of Diary Interest today was wall heightened by the alleged theft since the previous session of the diary of Miss Robinson daugh daughter k ter of a southern tobacco planter who was employed as an amanuensis in the Baker street bazar and who says she frequently went to abbey the Portland seat where she saw the late lateT T C Druce father Cather pf the late George Druce who vho in turn was father of or George Druce the the claimant to the estates as the duke of Portland whose identity with T C Druce she claimed to be able to establish Robert Caldwell of ot Staten Island N Ni NY i Y testified that he knew the late duke of Portland both as the duke and as asT asT asT T C C Druce at t abbey and at atthe atthe atthe the Baker street bazar and that he treated the duke at both places for a disease of the nose Caldwell swore that he arranged with the duke the death and mock funeral of Druce Bruce so that his dual personality could finally be buried Funeral Really Occurred He declared that at the dukes re request request request quest he employed a carpenter to make a coffin purchased pounds of lead and put it in the coffin himself The funeral occurred the following day Mr Caldwell Caidwell added he saw the duke on the morning of the funeral at the Baker street bazar He lie identified two photographs as pictures of the duke of ot Portland In the character of T C Druce Asked to account for the beard shown in one of the photographs wit witness witness witness ness replied he be had seen the duke yar yara ar ara a false beard After the funeral wit witness witness ness said ho he asked the duke if Druce had lad left lert a will The duke then thanked him for reminding him of such an im important Important important point and said he must have one made Caldwell aldwell told of his introduction to the duke In 1864 1861 by the famous physician physician cian dan Sir Morell McKenzie to his In Intimacy Intimacy intimacy with the duke and his hig cure cur of the dukes nasal trouble He testified that he be received presents from the duke aggregating about besides for curing the nasal trouble Witness Had a Past Witness said he remained in England six years after the funeral went to America in 1871 saw the Druce case mentioned in the New York papers pa rs in February of or that year rear and communicated communicated with Druces lawyer by b Mr Avery AYer Cald Caldwell Caldwell Caldwell well admitted he had been described as a athe s the great American but he added that it was not justified Mr Avery questioned Caldwell close closely closely ly I on the subject of his alleged offer to ti t sell a New York newspaper a story stor about the forged will Uland and the robbery of A T Stewart the dry goods mer merchant merchant merchant chant of or New York City The witness admitted that he had corresponded with Albert Hilton son I of tho the late Judge Hilton about the matter and he also admitted that he had suggested that Judge Hilton had I forged Mr Stewarts will and dug up the body bod Pressed Jed to explain why If tr not to ex extort extort extort tort money he had written to Albert I Hilton the witness said he desired to return him some letters which had passed between Mr Hilton and Mrs Stewart which were securely secure I locked up In a safe specially built to hold them and which cost Caldwell Caidwell refused to say where the safe sage was kept but asserted that he I had a key and an that another man had hada 1 a key to the th room in which the safe was kept Continuing the witness asserted that he be had pledged himself not to divulge the contents of ot the letters during Judge Hiltons life but said he be had offered to sell the story to a New York news newspaper newspaper newspaper I paper Caldwell Caidwell added that he be believed believed the letters to be genuine Counsel then read letters which pur purported pUrported purported ported to have havo passed between Judge Hilton and Mrs Stewart Steart in which Mrs Stewart said iid that an accusation Continued on Page 2 0 LAY CLAIMS TO TOTO TOTO TOTO TO DUCAL DU AL ESTATES I Continued From Page 1 V had been made against Judge Hilton as trustee of her husbands will The Tho correspondence which was lengthy went through the alleged dif dlf differences differences between Mrs Irs Stewart and Judge Hilton finally leading to a re reconciliation reconciliation conciliation of them Story Not Published Explaining why his story was not published Caldwell said tho the paper in question refused to pay the price which he demanded for tor It The witness was then asked whether after the story had been b en rejected he lie took it back and with a few embel embellishments embellishments embellishments including a Incident again offered it il to a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York newspaper Caldwell admitted that he had again offered the story to a New York news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper and complained that the paper not only broke Its Ita provision to not say anything about the story if 1 It was not used but provided an affidavit for use useIn useIn useIn In the present case and also printed editorials on the subject Mr Caldwell Caidwell was still under exam examination examInation examination when the case was adjourned for a week Underground Passage One of the strangest features of the caso case is that about the middle of June 1906 1900 workmen who were tearing down Harcourt house on Cavendish square London previously one of the residences of the Portland discovered an underground passage leading from the tho house to the Baker street structure m In which the famous bazar had previously been and which was wa conducted by Thomas Charles Druce The claimant declares that the duke while living his double life used the underground passage referred to totor for tor the purpose of ot getting from Harcourt house to the place of ot business of DUce The suit of the tue claimant is pressed press d db by b a 0 limited liability company com pan organized for the purpose The directors are tho Urn claimant himself and George and John Crickmer A Mrs Margaret Hamilton has testified that she knew the fifth duke both as 08 Mr Druce and as the Duke of Portland and that she was aware that he had married Elizabeth grandmother of the present claimant George Druce says he was born in fri 1811 2841 and went to Australia in 1865 returning to England four years later About this time he adds facts which came into his possession showed that the Duke of Port land owned the bazaar referred to In tho the case and he decided to claim the estates and for that purpose formed the limited liability company Present Holder of Title The rhe original action In tho the case was brought to eject Lord Howard DeWalden from the London property which his hla father inherited from tram the fifth Duke of ot Portland through h the supposed failure of at the direct line The contention has been that if this suit was vas au successful the establishing of ot the tra claimants title to tho the other estates e tu es held by the nuke Duke of ot Portland would follow as a natural con within a campara tte y t time |