SUSPECTED MURDER.
THE TREVANION CASE
SECOND INQUEST ORDERED
Press Association —Electric Telegraph— Copyright. (Received Thursday, at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, Wednesday. After Hugh Trevanion had toured the world he formed a deep friendship Avith A. E. Roe, and they lived together. Roe at the inquest testified that Trevanion said he had taken an overdose, and he became unconscious before the doctors arrived, and died two days later. A post mortem was not held, though his mother urged it should be. The High Court ordered a second inquest. Mrs Trevanion said the doctors had repeatedly warned her son about the drug habit. He lived much apart from his family.
Mr Muir, on behalf of the Crown, said Trevanion had habits of taking a cachet containing seven grains to induce sleep and sometimes he took a second. It was impossible he could have taken twenty-one in error. Roe's (Trevanion's companion) statement was the only proof that Trevanion took veronal prior to his unconsciousness. A message yesterday state that Hugh Trevanion, a confirmed victim of the veronal habit, died at Howe, Sussex, in September last. At the inquest the verdict was that he had taken an overdose of the drug in order to induce sleep. His mother, suspecting morder, had the body exhumed, when it was found that 150 grains had been taken an hour before death. There was no evidence of suicide.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11567, 16 January 1913, Page 5
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