THE GLEBE MURDER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 137, 1 December 1911, Page 5

THE GLEBE MURDER.

A BLOODY FINGER PRINT. INQUEST ON TREVASCUS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 30, 0.5 p.m. Sydney, November 30. At tlie inquest on Trevascus the evidence was largely recapitulatory. Miss Levy, employed in the same building in which Trevascus lived, identified Moir as the man who called on the morning of the murder and went upstairs to see Trevascus. She afterwards beard a heavy thud upstairs, like someone falling. Moir came twice and borrowed paper from her, going upstairs again. He appeared excited, and was trembling.

Detective Walker deposed that after tlie arrest, Moir admitted writing the letter found in Trevascus' room, and added that "he was sorry his mother would not live through it. He knew the detectives wanted him, and he could have got away, but decided to face it. Another witness, in whose house at Emu Plains Moir stayed, stated that he missed a plough coultei- after Moir had gone. Evidence was given of Trevascus drawing £SO from the bank on October SO. Inspector Childs, of the. finger prints braneli, gave evidence as to a bloody finger print on the envelope posted on Trevascus door, stating he had gone away. Tlie print was identical with Moir's left index finger. The inquest was adjourned.

MRS. TREVASCI'S' VIVID DREAM. " A LONG, LONG BLADE." A most interesting statement in reference to the Glebe murder camo from Mrs. Trevascus, the widow of the murdered man. It was a statement about a dream she had before she left Melbourne, and before the news; of the tragedv reached her. All the details are not known, but it is understood that she dreamt of her hnshand. of. his business premises, and of a "long, long blade," which she re: garded with a good deal of misgiving. This blade, indeed, became so impressed upon her mind that, in her dream, of course, she asked her husband why he allowed such a dangerous weapon to lie around. He replied carelessly.

There were other detaiK and all came vividly before her mind, affording her, in her opinion, a forewarning o'f th" dreadful news which was shortly afterwards broken to her.

It is not known whether or not the dream will afford the police a possible line of enquiry. Dreams do sometimes come true, and it is not beyond the bounds of probability that 'a dream which goes so far as to provide a warning of the tragedy should lead to the solution of the mystery of that traweilv as well. ' ° "

PREVIOUS TRAGEDY IX SAME ROOM No. 1 Glebe road, the place in which Trevascus. who was murdered at Glebe, Sydney, lived and died, was a house with a history extending back into the beginning of settlement in that part of the metropolis. It is very, very old, two storeys high in front and three in the rear, the ground sloping sharply down from the footpath. The windows are opaque with the dirt, frosted with long accumulations of filth. TJiev are all close fastened. A touch of incongruity with these dil-. aphUted and spider-webbed conditions is presented by the trim little garden at the rear of the premises. It was here that old Trevascus used to obtain the only enjoyment that he knew outside his strange business. And there is n°_ other garden like it anywhere in the neighborhood.

It is the strangest old house you can think of." said the dead man's former tenant, in the course of a chat. "It used to be a mill, and for some reason or other some now forgotten tragedy, T suppose it was known as the 'haunted mill.'

"The old man, in his infrequent moods of amiability, used to tell me strange stories of the old place. After it was a mill, he said, it became an hotel, and then a gambling den. He used to say that there were queer doings in the place in those days. THE PROPHECY OF TREVASCUS. One dav when I was in his room upstairs—the room in which his battered corpe was found festering on Saturday—Trevascus looked round the apartment and said, 'You wouldn't think that a man had died a violent death here, would you?' When I asked him what he meant, he said that in that very room a man had committed suicide in circumstances of a terrible nature.

" Isn't it strange how violent crimps associate themselves with particular places'; I've heard that old man more than once discuss this verv subject, and express wonder as to whether there would ever he any more violent deaths in that little top room. NKCRET ITTnTKG PLACES.

'•?>nt the whole place is stramre and uncanny. There are queer cupboards, where you'd never expect them to be, strange attics that could always conceal a person who wished to commit a crime in the house. There's on eof these attics close to the old man's room. For all we know, the murderer may have hidden in that. LOOPHOLES TO WATCH Till-: POLICE "There arc places in that old building (hat would have concealed half a dozen murderers. "When I first rented part of the premises T spoke to old Trevascus about the extraordinary number of liolcs that were around. T said to liiiu. 'Von seem to have a lot of rats here.'- Tie replied. 'Those are not rat holes. Those are hob's that were made for observation purposes when the. place was run as a gambling hell. He showed me how the holes gave facilities for watching every approach to the house from within."