DEATH OF H. TREVANION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1663, 1 February 1913, Page 5

DEATH OF H. TREVANION.

ROE IN THE WITNESS BOX. - , By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, January 30. The inquest touching the death of Hugh Trevanion, a victim of tho veronal habit, who was at first belioved to have died from an overdose of the drug, and who, it is now supposed, may have teen murdered, has been resumed. ■ .. .

Roe, who was a great friend of - tho dead man, and who has been left the greater portion of Trevanion'a (noney, gave evidence to the clfect that Trevanion's family, including his mother, approached him in- 1907, and asked him to use his influ-, once to keep Trevanion from drugs. . Trevanion fell ill in 1011, and summoned tho witness to Paris. He suggested that Roe should accept ,£2OO a j%ar' as travelling companion. Later, Trevanion transferred to the witness a sum of, .£IO,OOO, as he disliked the idea of people thinking that he (Roe) was in a different position from, himself. The witness had consented to this on Trevanion's solicitors arranging the matter. He denied any impropriety. He had treated Trevanion like a younger brother. Ho slept with him because Trevanion vps nervous. . The witness then -detailed the circumstances that had occurred prior to tho death of Trevanion.