TREVANION CASE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1913, Page 7

TREVANION CASE

m INQUEST RESUMED ROE'S EVIDENCE THE MATTER OP £10,000. Bj Telegraph.— -Prees Association.— Copyright (Received January 31, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 30th January. The inquesE touching the death of Hugh Trevanion, n victim of the veronal habit, who was at first believed to have died from an overdose of the drug, and who, it is now supposed, may have been murdered, was resumed. Hoe, who was a great friend of the dead man, and -who has been left the greater portion of Trevanion's money, gave evidence to the effect that Trevanion'e family, including his mother, approached him in 1907, and asked him to rise his influence to keep Trevanion from drugs. Trevanion fell ill in 1911, summoned witness to Paris, and suggested that he accept £200 a year as travelling companion. Later, deceased transferred to witness a sum of £10,000, as he disliked the idea of people thinking that he (Eoe) was in a different position to Witness had consented to this on Trevanion' s solicitors arranging the mattev. He denied any impropriety. He had treated deceased like a younger brother. He slept with him because Trevanion was nervous. Witness then detailed the circumstances that had occurred prior to the dedtfi of Trevanion.