DEATH BY POISON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20950, 13 August 1931, Page 11

DEATH BY POISON.

OFFICER AT ALDERSHOT.

NO CLUE TO MYSTERY.

(Received August 12, 10.15 p.m.) LONDON. Augusti 12,

The coroner's inquest failed to throw the least light on tlio death of Lieutenant Chevis, who died at Aldershot on June 21, after eating a partridge which had been poisoned. An open verdict was returned, after the widow had described the meal in detail.

The police admitted that they had failed to trace the source of the poison, or the sender of a telegram from Dublin to Sir William Chevis, tho father of the dead man.

A message on July 31 said: The death at Aldershot, on June 21, of Lieutenant Chevis, of tho Royal Artillery, who died after eating a partridge which had been contaminated by poison, is becoming a murder mystery. A baffling clue is a telegram received by his father, Sir William Chevis, from Dublin, on June 24, reading: "Hooray, hooray, hooray !"

Lieutenant Chevis and his wife dined in an army bungalow, when both ate partridge. Sirs. Chevis recovered. The partridge was immediately burnt, lest it might poison a dog, so any clue was lost. The food in the safe outside the bungalow could have been poisoned without anyone knowing. The police are now convinced that the person who sent the mysterious telegram to Sir William Chevis is the person who purchased poison trom a Dublin chemist. His identity is stated to be known, awl early developments are expected. Sir William Chevis was for many years in the Indian Civil Service, and became a Judge of the High Court of the Punjab. He was knighted in 1922.