THE PORTLAND ESTATES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2051, 30 November 1907, Page 3

THE PORTLAND ESTATES.

MRS. HAMILTON’S EVIDENCE- ' Press Association. I LONDON, Nov. 28 Mrs. Hamilton said that in 1866 sho met Druce at Euston, and r - marked: “I thought you were Head and buried?” He replied: «e > lam myself iagam.” He seemed annoyed to be addressed as Druce. He showed lier -a bundle of handkerchiefs with :a coronet worked on. eacli bv his wife Annie, which had muafi annoyed liim. He used Mrs. Hamilton’s scissors to cu,t the coronets off, and burnt most of them. She recovereil one and kept it for some yea is. She burnt it when told there' would be no Druce case. The last she sail of Druce was in 1876. He remarked : “T am -about to die.” She isaitl, “X hope you have repented your Cross-examined, 'Mrs. Hamilton admitted that her baptism certificate described her as the -daughter ot Robert and Isabella Atkinson. »be benefited under the- will of Mrs. Atkinson’s mother. 'She left her -grandmother when 14, -and came to Lo.ndon alone to seek her father. Looking through -a window in Bakerstreet Bazaar she recognised Dauco, whom .she had never seen before, by a nliotograpli. He came out, anil provided for her until her father returned from the Continent. The case will be resumed on Inday.