TREVANION’S DEATH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 15, 16 January 1913, Page 6

TREVANION’S DEATH.

POST-MORTEM INQUIRIES

(Received 9.20 a.m.) • London, January J 5. After Trevanion toured the world a deep friendship was formed with A. E. Roe and they lived together. Roe at the first inquest testified that Trevanion said he had taken an overdose and that he was unconscious before the doctors arrived and died within two days. A post mortem was not held, though the deceased’s mother urged one. The High Court ordered a second inquest. (Received 11.10 a.m.) Mrs Trevanion said the doctors had repeatedly warned her son about the drug, habit. He lived much apart from the family. Mr Muir, on behalf of the Crown, said Trevanion had the habit of taking a casket containing seven grains to induce sleep and sometimes a second dose. It was impossible he could have taken 21 in error. Roe’s statement was only proof that Trevanion took veronal prior to unconsciousness. [A cablegram yesterday read: Hugh Trevanion, who was addicted to the veronal habit, died at Hove last September, and at the inquest a verdict was given that death was due to an overdose taken to Induce sleep. His mother, suspecting murder, had the body exhumed, and found that 150 grams had been taken an hour before death. There was no evidence as to suicide.]