New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
A London Cause Celebre.

Mrs Hugh Arundel Trevanon, who.
according to the cable dispatches from
London. has secured from the Secretary
of State for the Home Department the
permission requisite for the exhumaton
of her son. Hugh Eric Trevanion. with
the object Of proving her contention that
the overdose of veronal to which he sue
cumbed some weeks ago was not self
administered nor accidental. as alleged by
coroners jury. but was the result OF a
crime, Is one of the daughters of old Sir
Daniel Cooper, who was the first Speaker
of the legislative Assembly of New
South Wales and one of the great ground
landlords OF the Australian city of sgd
ney. deriving a colossal fortune from mis-
property there.
.Irs Trevanion's brother was the second
Sir Daniel Cooper, who was up TO his
death one of the pillars Of the English
turf. steward of the Jockey club and one
OF the most familiar figures at Newman
ket. where the late King Edward was
often his guest.
Mrs. Trevanion has had the most ex-
traordlnary matrimonial experience. She
married Hugh Trevanion, whose mother
Lady Elizabeth. was sister of the th!r-
teenth Earl OF Strathmore, in 1882, and
secured a divorce from him I'm 1851. Then
he married again, and ten years later his
second wife died. Happening to meet his
former wife In society. lie fell in love
with her once more and entreated her to
remarry him, IL not for his sake, at any
rate for the sake OF their boy, Hugh
Eric. She at length consented. hut few
years later was obliged once more 10 APP
peal TO the courts, this time for judicial
separation, on the ground Of his drunken
ness and brutality. as we'll as for his
having passed off a lady OF the name
OF Mrs. Griffiths as his wife at some very
smart seaside towns In England and ther-
nal resorts on the Continent In fact
there were a number OF sensational feat.
ures in connection with this second sp-
plicltion Of Mrs Trevanion to the courts.
which was successful.
Her boy. Hugh Eric, was one Of the
favoritc grandchildren Of old Sir DANIEL
Cooper, and when he died he left him
fortune Of some 10000. II would seem
that young Trevanion had managed to
dl1eIldte dIIUOSt TIC WUOic VI his plVpts1
to a man OF the name Of Roe, who Sss
In no way related TO him, but who shared
his apartments at Hovo, a suburb OF
Brighton. and who was alone with him
at the time OF his death.
The case presents q considerable amount
of analogy to that OF the death or young
Cecil Murray on one OF the American
liners en- route from Southampton TO New
York. He was found dead in his punk
his demise being due TO a dose OF cyanio7
of potassium. Major Frederick Heless1
formerly OF the Welsh F'usiliers. who was
his travelling companion and had inc
connecting cabin, admitted the ownership
of the bottle, and insisted that Mur'd!
had borrowed il from him on the p'e
cedng day In spite OF the suspicious
circumstances no regular lhNesuS"uo"
was made until. some weeks later 'he
major presented for probate In LONDON
will. in which Cecil Murray. who ia"
known him for only few months De-
oueatbed TO him his entire property
The will was not probatcd. sir fefo,
Sanderson. then British Consui ueh.
in New York. made an investgauo"
But owing TO the circumstances uh'',
which young Murray had left bhs'"n.
and the desire to avoid draGSihs
name OF a married woman into the v"as
the latter was not pushed, ana he,o S,
found IT prudent TO compromise MS TO-,
for quite small sum. lie mas IN.
served a term OF penal servitude 'o' |
bling a London jeweller, and al one ',
cut a wide swath of fraud IN '''S ~
try as an alleged military a''a'"'
tho British Embassy az Washington