The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-11
A Scene in the Marylebone Police Court
During the bruce Perjury Case.


Judge Hilton had caused its removal again to dis
tant spot.
Thus Caldwell He was right in placing his price
at $4,000 There was only one fault with the story
It had its source and it's details in his own fertile
brain. 1t is worthy of note here that product
complete and presented to audience Caldwell
seemed to lose interest in it. He took it to per
IN authority explained, argued defended all with
the most overwhelming show of sincerity Cynical
editors heard him through and caught themselves
wondering If the might not be right But, his
impression made, he let the affair dawdle along for
got his appointment to return, apparently gave 1t
little further consideration. 1t is fact that he tried
to swindle with his lie but it was poorly considered
attempt not worthy of the article he had manu-
featured
sky in this manner, Caldwell again quescent
til the bruce eliminated in litigation involving
title and part OF the enormous estate OF the duke of
Portland, When tis complication approached test
the imagination of this wonderful man sensed such
chance it had dreamed OF.
The bruce trial. the cause celebre of the last so
years. involved indirectly the eccentricities of the
fifth duke ofs Portland, who died without issue 1t
rested upon the assertion that the duke and Thomas
Charles Druce owner of the Baker street bazaar in
London, and the person, in a kind of
DR.. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde existence 1t was said that
when the duke became tired OF playing at bruce the
shopkeeper, he had mock funeral performed for
himself in the capacity bruce married twice, and
George Hollamby bruce, grandson by the first mar
rage, was the claimant. His attempt took the form
of action for perjury against Herbert bruce, a
son OF I. c. bruce by second wife, who swore that
he his fathers body in the coffin. The claimant
declared that the funeral had been held two
hundred pounds of lead in place of body, and that
Herbert bruce knew it.
AT this stage, enter Caldwell Who but Caldwell
should be the conhdant and private intimate friend
of the princes of the earth commercial or titled?
Was the case sufficiently important? If So another
little affidavit was indicted
Caldwells Story
The attorneys for the claimant were completely
taken in They secured Caldwell as witness The
mans testimony affords food for reflection. He de-
scribed himself the of wealthy Irish gentle
and led off in the following promising style
In the year 1855, when | 70 years of age,
had dubious affection of the nose which caused
horrible Disagreement, to relieve which l con-
s suited the eminent surgeons but to pur-
, pose. Among such physicians Sir Dominick
lCorrigan, of Dublin; Sir William Jenner Sir MorEell
Mackenzie and Professor Schweninger, of Berlin, and
all of these gentlemen told that my disease was
incurable.'
Dubious would seem but poor lead
toward the subject of bruce and the duke of Port
land, but Caldwell your catchy spinner of yarns
starting at the picturesque point. He went on tc
describe tour of the world in search of cure for
the trying herbs in New England, lamentations
in China and knives in Germany Finally, it ap-
peared he found the magic ointment paying SIS OOC
for it to his wife's brother Captain Arthur Welles
ley Joyce, who had it from rajAh Having cured
himself, he then heard that the duke of Portland
was afflicted with similar nose, and rushed to thu
rescue with the ointment
Havins made the duke. acquaintance. he soon be