VERONAL MYSTERY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1660, 29 January 1913, Page 7

VERONAL MYSTERY.

' DEATH OF HUGH TREVANION. .FORTUNE WILLED AWAY. ■';./.' By Telegraph—Press/Association-Copyright W.:-*\ ;.' : ; Lonmln, : January 27. ..The'inquest regarding., the death of -Hugh Trevanion, a victim of tho veronal haMt, who was supposed to havo been accidentally lulled by an ovordoso of the drug;'but \vho it is now thought may have, been murdered, was resumed. \: Miss. Geneste, at one timo/Trevanion's .governess, gave evidence . that ■ Roe, to. .whom • Trevanion left most: of. his■.money,. was ah: officer 'on.the Oratava, on which boat' Trevanion travelled to Australia in ',- Juno, 1900. "Trevanion returned : to England iii 1907, and lived at- her house. Roe - irbquehtly,.;visited .there.'- '. ; r.-Miv Lamb,.-a solicitor, stated the circumstances in*which Trevanion had given Rbo !:i£16,000. r The, witness .believed that .Roe'; lluul : Bot been.. told that Trevanion ':. had. willed\him his/residuary estate.. In' June, 1912, Trevniiion.directed :'. that Roe's cremated ashes should be placed '•by. the side of his'own in an urn.. He did • not wish any .of his .family ;to.be buried '...near.■■by':' :■''?'.■ '.'■';■ ''-='•'•" ■' V .;■■''■'-■'.■'. ' , :,ptherMwitnesses,'testifie<i that 'Trevanion. once; confessed ;that liei had;'taken enough ..'veronal, to have, 'killed two-people.' He: decided in 1911' to make-Roe his legatee in- ' stead of his toothers.,:. ■','•'.'■: ,;H'•'">':';■''•• :;?;,; '?= (Rec.; January 28,10.55' p.m.)-.;;;■:. •'. : v '-. -V-yi ! : London,; January 28.- ; '. ;A;doctor/testified to,;Treyahion's\drug- ;'; taking .habits." ; i He": did: not Tielieve that r Treyanion-was'addicted to unnatural vice. Hoe had done' muoh. ,toxwcan the deceased y,\;■- .;r-;.^ ;: ;-':;';-'' -• ' :■ L . ~.■ Hugh Eric;Trevanion,.who was born in ISBi, Vfas-.tlie.'cldcst son of -Florence Eva, ; the,thirddaughter of tho late Sir' Daniel ; Cooper, Uho :; .first' Speaker.'.' of, the-:New. ;'. South,Wales'Legislative,Assembly. She married; in- ISB2' Hugh Arundell Trevan,,ion,ifrom whom, she obtained a'divorce in. 1887.-.She remarried him^three years later but in 1908 she', obtained ; a judicial separation, from him. i Two other sonswere born" of;tho union. '',v ; ■'■-•'.