SENSATIONAL INQUEST

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 62, 24 May 1928, Page 6

SENSATIONAL INQUEST

DEATH OF FAEMLER. MQRPHINE IN BODY. '■IP ' —■— ; — ... j ■ -United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. (Received 12.30 p.m.) ■r LONDON, May 23. ' 'Following up the' sensational de- j velopments in he Pace murder case, public interest has centred in the inquest on Hilary RbUgier, aged| seventy-seven years, a bachelor farmer at Woking. The case has taken a remarkable turn owing to tSe examination of Wm. LOrwell, a j •tfell-uressed liian in his early thirties, in whose house Rougier was living when h e died on August 14, 1926. [ The body was exhumed two months ago and an inquiry ordered by the Home Office. Lorwell, in his evidence to-day, admitted that he had had between five and six thousand pounds from Rougier by cheques. Other evi-'j deuce wal to the effect ufat when Jfeugisr* body Was .Mhumed, morphine-; was found:in the body. ' Lor-/ well ■■HimM had no idea how the morphine came to be there. He had a recollection 1 that Rougier had asked Mm to get laudanum for some dogs which" 'were ) ufiering smp\\ eSSema. He admitted many of the cheques were in his handwriting,, fcut the signature was Rougier's. He. did not know Rougier had only £SO; after he had received six thousand? This'was mostly in the form: of gifts as LorWell was in financial difficulties. -

' svir'Hard wick, a solicitor, gave evidence that he personally met Rougier and explained that Lovv/ell was in financial difficulties. Rougier said fc« had ,knp'wn torwell since boyhood and! : . was, willing to' help him to %-Mk bankruptcy. Hardwick added he thought that Rougier must be wealthy'in view of the free manner in which'he gave the money. Australian Press Assn.