THE VERONAL MYSTERY.
A HARDENED HABITUE. By Telegraph.—Press Anaooi a.tion.—Oopyri&hl London, Monday. At the second inquest ordered in tho case of Hugh Trevanion, who died at H ove, Sussex, under suspicious circumstances, sumo of the witnesses testified that deceased had once confessed that he had taken enough veronal tu kill two people. It was stated that i'revanion decided in 1911 to make his friend Roe hia legatee instead of his brothers. Miss Geneste —Trevanion's governess—gave evidencu to the ed'ect that Roe waß an officer on the Oratava, the steamer on which Trevanion travelled to Australia in 190 S. Trevanion returned to England a year later and lived at witness' house, whore Roo frequently came f.o see deceased. Mr Lamb—solicitor detailed the circumstances under which Trevanion gave Roe £IO,OOO. Ho did not believe that Roe had been told that he had in June, 1912, been made residuary legatee under the will of deceased. Trevanion had asked that when Roo died he should be placed alongside the urn containing his, Trevanion's, own ashes. Trevanion did not wish any of his family to be buried near him.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 537, 29 January 1913, Page 5
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184THE VERONAL MYSTERY. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 537, 29 January 1913, Page 5
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