37. ‘The Whitaker Wright Companies’,The Times, 22 January 1902, p. 4.
38. The Whitaker Wright Companies’,The Times, 28 January 1902, p. 13.
39. Ibid.
40. ‘The London and Globe Finance Corporation (Limited)’, The Times, 24 December 1902, p. 10.
41. ‘Rex v. Whitaker Wright’, The Times, 12 January 1904, p. 14.
42. TNA: PRO FO 5/2570, letter from Abrahams and Co., 18 September 1903.
43. ‘The Charge against Mr. Whitaker Wright’, The Times, 6 August 1903, p. 10.
44. The Marquess of Reading, Rufus Isaacs First Marquess of Reading by his Son (London, Hutchinson, 1943), p. 114.
45. ‘Rex v. Whitaker Wright’, The Times, 12 January 1904, p. 14.
46. ‘Rex v. Whitaker Wright’, The Times, 14 January 1904, p. 12.
47. ‘Rex v. Whitaker Wright’, The Times, 19 January 1904, p. 13.
48. ‘Rex v. Whitaker Wright’, The Times, 20 January 1904, p. 3.
49. Ibid.
50. Ibid.
51. Ibid.
52. ‘Rex v. Whitaker Wright’, The Times, 21 January 1904, p. 14.
53. Ibid.
54. ‘Facing the Ordeal’, Daily Mail, 21 January 1904, p. 3.
55. ‘Rex v. Whitaker Wright’, The Times, 22 January 1904, p. 13.
56. Ibid.
Chapter 10: The Double Duke
1. ‘The Druce Case’, Daily Mail, 17 August 1898, p. 4.
2. ‘Alleged Sham Burial’, Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 13 March 1898, p. 13.
3. ‘Druce Mystery’, Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 27 March 1898, p. 1.
4. ‘Druce v. Young’, The Times, 28 November 1901, p. 15.
5. ‘Druce v. Young’, The Times, 5 December 1901, p. 14.
6. TNA: PRO DPP 1/11, Rex v. Robinson, item 3, p. 5.
7. Bernard O’Donnell, The Trials of Mr Justice Avory (London, Rich & Cowan Ltd, 1935), p. 93.
8. TNA: PRO DPP 1/11, Druce v. Lord Howard de Walden. Note of Messrs Baileys Shaw and Gillett’s attendance on Mr Trewinard (sic) on 6th May 1908.
9. TNA: PRO MEPO 3/175, Statement to AC CID, Edward Phillips, 23 June 1908, p. 13.
10. Ibid. p. 6.
11. Thomas K.V. Coburn, The Portland Millions. Was Druce the Duke? (privately printed, c. 1905), pp. 9–10.
12. ‘The Police Courts’, The Times, 9 November 1907, p. 15.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. ‘The Police Courts’, The Times, 16 November 1907, p. 15.
19. Ibid.
20. ‘The Police Courts’, The Times, 20 November 1907, p. 18.
21. ‘The Police Courts’, The Times, 22 November 1907, p. 3.
22. ‘The Police Courts’, The Times, 28 November 1907, p. 13.
23. TNA: PRO MEPO 3/175, Statement of Frederick Hargrave, 15 July 1908.
24. ‘The Police Courts’, The Times, 17 December 1907, p. 3.
25. ‘The Druce Case’, The Times, 23 December 1907, p. 9.
26. ‘The Druce Case’, The Times, 14 January 1911, p. 10.
27. ‘The Police Courts’, The Times, 7 January 1908, p. 12.
28. TNA: PRO MEPO 3/175, Statement of Mrs Wilkinson, Rex v. Mary Anne Robinson, Perjury, 11 January 1908.
29. ‘The Police Courts’, The Times, 25 February 1908, p. 14.
30. 1861 census.
31. TNA: PRO MEPO 3/175, Further statement of Francis George Coles, 30 June 1908.
32. ‘Title Claimant Now in Oakland’, Oakland Tribune, 20 January 1913, p. 12.
33. ‘The Police Courts’, The Times,7 January 1908, p. 12.
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