| Show DRUCE GIVES UP SECRET Opened Today and Coffin Found To Contain Remains of ot a n Humin Body I j i DISPOSES OF CALDWELL MYTH Jt J t i Ji Statement Says That TiUI Th j J Plate on Coffin Bore Name of Thomas Charles Druce 11 Wit ns Orent till In Gate J j t J lt rj Xo Ono d I I C n l 0 t i Thomas London Dee Dec SO The Mf J nt 4 i j F Charles Charle Drue t In high H t l e ommey wan WO exhumed mei 1 Jut jail 4 u 43 year tar ars to a day cI neT after tt Mg to if i H Tle e coffin wa was U found to IS ut J I romaine remains maIn of or a human hu bod i body thus thud Jt t j the Ih t hr romantic tl tale l r Tt i C Caldwell and others othes wk re 3 1 during dIring th the recant hearing of ot the r GH i J perjury case that thai It contained n a raft of eC i f 1 load lead I Th orrl given ott ot 0 kf b representative r r of the th horn hones office aUtos others oIlier 01 henl who were officially present at atthe atthe t the th exhumation not rn 0 definitely p of the lead 14 myth b tn effectively to prove roe that th the buried In 1844 wa was w actually actual that thai of T c I Druce l ruce The authorised State rn nt follows f lIow S OFFICIAL TIll The coma coffin wa was opened O ened and al found to t contain the of or an aged bar beard l leil eil Pt man the on the coffin bore bolo tb Ih name lIam Charles Charle Drue Druce The seen weno ent at High Oat Gate cemetery this morn morning In a when the th vault wa wee open ei 1 t was wall remarkable Constables seen ni nl nied ed ad to spring from everywhere every fery bust bush and very every tree apparently hid an Rn officer of ot the limo Ih law III Ail UI JI the en entrance n trance to the rho cemetery were wr Cur sur surrounded ut rounded hv in b cordons of f t police Only those th one persons Im had hd passes parses front the homo bom office were to the grounds ground George Hollamby who claIms he Is I the th rightful helm hell tu tn t the lit Portland dukedom and to Us its vast at estate eUtte tried twice to get et Into the th c cem m met et ry but wa was met mt with a stern tern re me reo twist rural a AI Ll The Ehe began bepin at It a daybreak with the et at lh tt topmost cot cof fl A flue In th IIi vault containing the bod hod It Ie lea ot of th the wife und and a n of ot T C Druen It j wax as nearly 1110 1130 11 30 before the coffin the u ot of which h have v aroused the curiosity Jt of ot the tho whole world orld was brought up really r for tor opening and In The top was quickly un unscrewed screwed d and the Inner Illner casing cuing of or lead cut open There was WIS vt no tie need for tar the tho of the eminent surgeon Augus Augu Augustus Augusto tit to Pepper who was appointed by b the home horn office to carry car carr the lion tion to tu unsure assure all that human romaine lay In the coffin The Druco Druce vault ault has ha thue given Ien up U lie Its secret cret after arter 10 years year of ot it legal pro proceeding proc c which have havA cost COlt all told 1051 a fortuno fortune A large part are of this money was wall obtained from ser cur servant vant nt girls girl and lAnd other workers who were wern Induced to buy harba In itt u IL company formed to prosecute pro eute the claims claim of t George Hollamby Druce Druco against th the late of at the Duke of If Portland The charge of ot perjury against He bert Draco Druco Is la effectively disposed of or Jl DB LICE Herbort Duce the defendant in the Ibe Lb now famous case ease Is la charged with corn com committing mIning perjury by swearing that Mi hIm hi Thomas Charles Druce of ot the thu Baker Daker Street died Dec Pec so 3 ISM 1664 and that he saw the dead body placed In a coffin and Ind burled buried in High Gate cemetery Ills nephew nhe George Georgo Druc Druce declares d that this must mut be untrue because T C Druce wa wu in fact the fifth nUh Duke Duk of Portland who lived until 1878 1179 That being so 0 Dru e claims that he ha himself being the senior descendant In In the male line Is III now the tho rightful heir hell of ot th the Portland dukedom and to certain rich mith ta the Income of ot f which is I placed red at lit a year now held by lord loni Howard neward de Walden The opening open In of th the grave however will not give conclusive proof of ot the th claim of ot George Geor Drue I The fifth luke Juk of ot Portland and a 3 man known a as Thomas C Druce hive have hll b been n declared d to be one and nd the sain aam person by about a dozen dosen s but particularly by b Robert C Caldwell Caidwell of It Now hew N York who ho testified at length aad su 1 In detail to I this during th the pre pres ant ent nt trial tria Caldwell left London for tor Nw Nea T York rk th the middle of 01 December Ills hIs hi arrival h he wu at the tho r request of ot the UJ British authorities on a chaise of ot penury II JI I us now ill at t hi his hom on Staten Island Should he to to brought ht to trUl trl the tile evidence obtained from opening the coffin would do much to 10 or clear cler him H Herbert rb ert rt DIU e oP the tit Ih opening of tb tIN the grave crave in on n the ground that he lie did dl 1 not with wish to tn U rate crate t his hili fathers father re mains ma eji an n th the whim of or a person ron who chase rhoe to e make mk a claim aim to an n estate he Is III not In lii and anI who tins has put forward a claim he tie declare he knew to be h untrue He n was obliged finally however by iii the tb popular demand t I put i aside sentiment and consent to tl the Ih ex ox x for tor th the purpose as his hi ad I tier say of ot once ono and Uld for r ail II putting Ii xii 4 end nd to th tile the story to for tor which aldI alor aloe seem BM that there v was we n iu 1113 en In lit I the t coffin Ii |
