TREVANION’S DEATH.
“VERONAL TO KILL TWO MEN.” (Received 9.20 a.m.) London, January 27. At the Trevanion inquest, witnesses testified that Trevanion once canfessed that he had taken enough veronal to kill two men. He decided in 1912 to make Roe his legatee instead of his brother. TREVANION’S WISHES. a (Received 12.10 p.m.) London, January 27. Miss Geneste, Trevanion’s governess, gave evidence that Roe was an officer on the Orobava, in which Trevanion went to Australia in June, 1906. He returned in 1907, and lived in her house f where Roe frequently visited him. Lamb, a solicitor, testified to the circumstances under which Trevanion gave Roe £IO,OOO. He believed Roe was not told Trevanion had made him residuary legatee to his estate by will in June, 1912. Trevanion directed that Roe’s cremated ashes should be placed by the side of his own in an (urn, and did not wish his family to bo buried near by.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 25, 28 January 1913, Page 5
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155TREVANION’S DEATH. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 25, 28 January 1913, Page 5
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