A SUSPICIOUS DEATH.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 534, 18 January 1913, Page 5

A SUSPICIOUS DEATH.

NEW INQUEST ORDERED,

London, Wednesday,

Giving evidence at the inquiry into the death of Hugh Trevanion, whoa* body was exhumed at H,ove, Mta Trevanion said that doctorß repeatedly warned her son against the drug habit. He lived much apart from his family. Mr Muir, who appeared on behalf of the Crown, said Trevanion waß in the habit of taking a cachet containing seven grains of veronal to induce sleep. He sometimes took a second, but it was impossible that he could have taken twenty-one in error. Examination of the body after exhumation proved the presence of 150 grains.

After a tour of the world by Trevanion, a deep friendship was established between him and a man named A. E. Roe, and they, lived together. At the first inquest Roe 'testified that Trevanion said he had tak«n an overdose of veronal. He was unconBcious before the doctors arrived, and died two days later.

No post-mortem examination of the body was held, though the mother urged that it should be. The High Court subsequently ordered that a second inquest should be held.

TERMS OF THE WILL.

BULK LEFT TO ROE,

London, Thursday

Five caveats have been lodged against Trevanion's will Legacies amounting to £15550 were left to various persons and the residue to Roe or to hospitals in the event of Roe dying before Trevanion. Trevanion and Roe lived in sumptuous apartments at Hove. The former met Roe two years ago on board an ocean liner o? which tlje latter was then an officer.

When Trevanion was seized with a serious illness Roe nursed him and a close friendship sprang up between them.