Evening star., 1947-06-19
By Fronk Acosto, jr.

ne WOrQS OF a Q6aQ mOIIf6T-1u-
law are holding Mrs. Irma Trego
today, charged with murder.
Mrs. Trego steadfastly denies the
dead woman's accusations.
Her strongest supporter, even
after is years of marital trouble
over the mother-in-law, is her hus-
band-the dead woman's son.
Yesterday Mrs. Trego, who is IS,
and her husband, Raymond l..
Trego, Il, a Treasury Department
employe, both voluntarily took the
stand at coroner's inquest into
his mothers death to tell cor
oner's jury the story OF their Is
years of struggle to get along on a
small salary and support mother
in-law as well.
It all led up to Sunday morning,
April 20, when Mr.. Trego came
home to find his mother, "a, with a
broken leg and muttering accusa-
tions that his wife had thrown her
out of the bed.
Died June 8.
The elderly woman was taken to
Gallinger Hospital and died June 8.
An autopsy showed that death was
directly due to infection Of the
bladder and kidney, blood poisoning
and congestive heart failure.
Before she died, however, Mrs.
Annie Trego, allegedly told her other
two children during visits at the hos
pital that her leg had been broken
when she was "choked and pulled
out of bed by Irma Trego."
The other son, Walter Trego, of
Nokesyille, Va, pensioned World
War I veteran, and Mrs. Lillian
Kramer, Of GIG Raleigh place Sc, !,
both reported to ppiice the state
rnertss made by th6tr mother before.
she died and asked for an investf-
cation.
During yesterdays hearing, how
ever Rayonmd Trego indicated
that neither his brother nor sister
had ever liked HIS wife, and be-;
cause of that and the fact that
both were much older than he, he
never felt like talking to them as
brother and sister.
Says Help Refused.
He told the jury that, three
months ago, he had asked his
brother If he could take their
mother to live with him, and on
being turned down, put the same
plea to his sister to no avail.
Later, he said, he even called an
assistant United States attorney
here and asked him if there were
any law to compel children to help
support their mother. There also
he received no help, he said.
Later he inquired of the Little
Sisters Of the Poor and the Sacred
Heart Home to ask if they would
take his mother. Both said she
could come to them but that they
would not be able to give her
nursing care. Neither could his
parish priest offer help on the
problem.
On the night of the accident, Mr..
Trego said, he and his wife visited
friends home about 10 o'clock and
had several cans of beer before
returning about 2 o'clock to their
home at 2235 Prout street Sc.
They got into rather heated
argument and he left the house
as he had done "about three times"
during their married life.
Learned of Broken Leg.
He returned about 6 am, he
related, and shortly after am.
went into his mothers room. She
showed him her leg and he i'm
mediately went to a neighbor's
house to borrow money to call a
doctor.
Mrs. Trego, during her period on
the stand, said that, after the
argument, she went up stairs to bed
and noticed that her mother-in-
laws door was ajar and presumed
that the argument had wakened
her. She said she never went into
that room and did not do so on this
occasion, since the elder Mrs. Trego
looked after her own room.
Testimony also was offered by
Mrs. Annie 'Trego's granddaughter,
Mrs. Julia Robinson, and her hus-
band, Paul Robinson, both of whom
live with Mrs. Kramer. The young