TREVANION'S DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1676, 17 February 1913, Page 7

TREVANION'S DEATH.

CORONER SUMS UP.

THE VERDICT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright v London, February 14. The inquest concerning tIA death of Hugh Trevanion, a victim of tho drug habit, who was at first thought to have died of an overdose of veronal, but who it is since thouglit may have boon murdered, wfts resumed.

Campbell, a Swansea 1 jeweller, admitted that a story he had told the police about Eoe, an intimate friend of tho dc l ceased man, was untruo. Witness said he was drunk at the time tho story was told. '

The Coroner,' in summing up, pointed out that Roe's influence over deceased was in some respects for his good. There was evidence that Eoe had had a powerful motive in desiring Trovanion's death, and his conduct was open to suspicion. Tho Coroner, however, failed to see that there was evidence of foul play; on. the contrary, it was very difficult to see hbw a largo dose of veronal could have been administered without deoeased consenting. A Very likely explanation was Buicide.

The verdict was that deceased had been poisoned, but that there was no evidence how the poison'had been administered.

The jury added a rider that it was of opinion l that Veronal sliould be> placed on tho Eohetlulo of poisons.