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Show THE FAKE BURIAL STORK PROVED TO BE FALSE 'J ' Grave of Thomas Charles Druce li Opened and Human Body Found w Where Witness 8ald Rested a Roll of Lead. London. Tho body of Thomas Chnrles Druce, In High Gate cemetery ceme-tery waa exhumed Monday morning, Just forty-threo years to a day after Ita 1mrl.il. Tho coffin was found to contnln tho remains of n human body, thus exploding tho romantic talo told by Itobert C. Cnldwell and others who sworo during tho recent henrlng of tho Druco perjury caso that it contained con-tained a roll of lead. Tho Druco vault has thus given up ita secret nftcr ten years of legal proceedings pro-ceedings which havo cost, all told, a considerable fortune. A largo part of this monoy was obtained from servant girls and othor workers, who were Induced In-duced to buy shares In a company, formed to prosccuto tho claims ol George Hollamby Druco against tho estate of tho Duko of Portland. Tho chargo of perjury against Herbert Her-bert Druco Is effectively disposed of. So far as tho public Is concerned, tho entlro long drnwn out Druce-Duko of Portland controversy la nt nn end, nnd tho case of tho clnimnnt, Georgo Hollnmby Druco, has fallen to the ground. Desplto tho finding of tho body, Georgo H Druco aaya that ho la determined deter-mined to continue to push hla claim for tho nstntc nnd title of tho Portland dukedom. In substnnco tho story of Itobort C. Cnldwell, whoso testimony na n witness In tho so:called Druco enso led to tho opening of tho grave, nnd upon which tho claim of tho Druco heirs for tho great fortune nnd tho title of the Duko of Portland was based, was to tho effect that tho Duko or Portland nnd T. C. Druce, n" London storekeeper, store-keeper, were ono nnd tho same. Ho had known tho Duko of Portland under both names, ho said, and nt tho request of the duke ho had arranged a pretended death and mock funeral of Druce, so that his. dual personality could bo burled. |