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119 BOTTLES LEFT BY PREVIOUS TENANT.
On examination of this cupboard BELGRADE TRAGEDY did you find It just as you left it? Yes...
Replying to Mr. Frampton, Mis Hope said that she could not exact- ly remember the level of the liquid in the bottle containing tincture of opium. She thought that it was about two divisions more than it was at present.
ONE OF MORPHINE,
Evidence concerning 119 bottica which she had handed to the police was given by the 'spinster owner of
Miss Lillian Margaret Hope said Nuthurst, Lower Knaphill, when the inquest was resumed at Woking that she and her sister were told into the death of Hilary Rougier. the moment they returned home retired that Mr. Rougier had died. "It was Rougier, aged 77; farmer of Guernsey, had lived with in my bed, and I was not quite en Mr. and Mre. Lerwill at Nuthurat. tisfted. I did not know what illness He died in August, 1926, and his Mr. Rougier had." body was exhumed lést March.
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Cerebral hemorrhage and senile decay had been given as the causes of death on the certificate, but at the opening of the inquest it was stated that the post-mortem had not revealed any disease likely to ter- minate fatally.
Nuthurst,
Baid that
KING'S VISIT to VICTIMS AT HOSPITAL
"MUCH WORK TO, DO.”
Belgrade, Yesterday. Immediately the King heard of the Parliament tragedy, he visited the victims in hospital. Paul Raditch died a few moments before the King's arrival, and his body surrounded with lighted
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candles.
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The Croat Pensant Leader, Stefan Raditch, his uncle, The coroner asked if there was stretched on the operating table. any real reason for disatisfaction,,
He opened his eyes and murmur- and witness replied that, the place ed "Long live the King," and raia- was clean, but she noticed the ed the King's hand to his lips. He musty smell which her sister had whispered "Sire, I do not cling to The Lerwills had ar life, but I must live, for. there is spoken of. ranged to pay the rent of the house still much work to do." in instalments. One Instalment was; paid in advance.
instalments?-They
were
Dr. Roche Lynch, Home Office analyst, gave evidence that in or The Coroner: What about the guns of the body submitted to other him he found traces of morphine.not paid.
Miss Mary Hape, the owner of "During the time Mrs. Lerwill come was living at Nuthurat," said wit- of the bottles she had given ness, "I wanted to put a fur coat to the police contained polson, away, and Mrs. Lerwill gave me the her father having been a doctor. key of the cupboard.” · One contained morphine. These Mr. Frampton: We have had all bottles were left in a locked cup this mystery about the scrubbing board when the house was let to of the bed head. I suppose if any the Lerwills, and when witness one died in a room you would ex- and her sister returned in Octo-pect it to be cleaned?—Oh, yes, and ber, 1926, the cupboard and its the room was clean. contents were intact,
She expressed the opinion, in re- ply to the coroner, that there was rather more in the bottle of morphine when last she had seen it. Other witnesses stated that Mr. Rougier had kept bottles of medi- cine in the maid's pantry and was in the habit of mixing them him- self.
"That Awfu! Wheeze."
Mob Disorderly In Belgrade.
Belgrade, Yesterday.
A garbled account of the shoot- ing of the deputies is published in the "Zagreb," which reports that both Paul and Stephen Raditch are dead and that the news
aroused consternation among the populace. Crowde became disorderly and had conflict with the police, bombard- ing them with stones.
The police repeatedly, charged and caverly, were also called out and had to charge before the dis- order was quelled-Reuter.
BRUTAL MURDER.
BODY FOUND IN AN EAST
PRAYA DITCH.
Mise Allee Dayborn, a domestic help at Nuthurst, said Mr. Rougieri used to potter about in the garden most of the day. Aboat three weeks after she went to the house Mrs.
In connection with the brutal Lerwill remarked to her that Mr. murder (reported yesterday) of a Rougier was not looking very well, Chinese whose body was found by and she thought it would be better workmen on the Praya East re to have a doctor. I quite agreed, clamation yesterday morning, a adjourned, as Mr. Rougier was getting on in "China Mail" representative was intimating that years.
Mrs. Lerwill asked if I able to gather some additional in- he would sit from day to day until knew a doctor, and I suggested Dr. formation this morning, the hearing was concluded..
the
The inquest was
coroner
Rougier's Habila
The court was full when Mr. G. Wills Taylor, the West Surrey coroner, resumed his inquiry. Mr.
Brower, who was sent for.
It was, how- pointed. out by our that the disappear- of શ્રી. coolle is seldom
The murdered man, whose age is The day before Mr. Rougler died probably a little over 30 years, had he was later than usual coming the appearance of being of the downstairs. He did not seem at all coolié class, as his feet showed: well. The wheeze on his chest was signe of their never having worn and Mrs. Lerwill again sat next to worse than usual. The couch was shoes. When found, the body was coat and their legal representatives, Mr. drawn up in front of the drawing-clad in a white cotton W. D. Frampton and Mr. Danford reom are because Mr. Rougier trousers. Thomas, the latter appearing for seemed chilly. The previous Fri- Up to this morning the body, Mrs. Lerwill in place of Mr. J. G. day he did not seem well. He had which was removed by the police to the Victoria mortuary, had not Symes.
a cold and "that awful wheeze." Miss Mary Bentrico Hope, of "On the Saturday morning that been identified, nor had the police Queen's-gate, London, the owner of Mr. Rougier died Mrs. Lerwill ask-received any report of any Chinese Nathurst, said that in June, 1926, ed me to take his shaving water up being missing. as she and her sister were going to him. I did so. I knocked on ever, abroad, she let the house furnished, the deer and listened. Mr. Rougier Informant through agents, to Mr. and Mrs. was breathing very heavily. I ance Lerwill, who paid four and a bálf shook him by the shoulder and said reported, and generally not made guineas a week rent.
I had brought his shaving water. much of by friends, as the major- Sho shut up one or two cup-lle made no answer, so I fetchedity of this class of Chinese have They sleep in the boards. In one of the cupboards the nurse and Mrs. Lerwill. Mra abode, she locked were many battics. Two Lerwill said she thought she had streets, seldom at regular places, and are constantly on the move to of the bottles. belonged to her better send for П doctor. Dr. father, who had been a doctor, and Brewer, was sent for, and he said various parts of the island as work
becomes available. had been there for years.
that Mr. Rougier had not long to The Coroner: Did the 119 bottles live. The nurse and myself took it you have handed to Superintendent in turns to watch Mr. Rougier, who Boshier come from this cupboard, died at four o'clock in the after which you left locked?
The body discovered yesterday Miss Hope: Yes, all came from In reply to Mr. Frampton, Miss was found in a trench on the Praya that cupboard. There were several | Dayborn said that Mr. Rougler did East reclamation, some distance to bottles in the cupboard containing not say anything to her at any time the west of the Bowrington-canal, poison. There was a bottle of mor- about seeing a doctor. She Was phine..
very happy with the Lerwills. Rougier And Old Age.
A bottle was produced and fden- tified by Miss Hope.
sä
mixturó
noon."
In these circumstances, the ab- sence of a man for many days would not cause any alarm amongst his friends..
SNATCHING.
Whilst Miss R. Ault, one of the
Marjorie. Helen Aldridge, a train- IN MIDDLE OF QUEEN'S-ROAD The Coroner: Can you remem-ed children's nurse, of Sandy, Bed-
AT NOON. ber the condition, when you last fordshire, suid Mr. Rougier was the bottle?-There was more with Mr. and Mrs. Lerwill when in it than there is now. I don't re- she first went into their service at sistors at the Government Civil member the label "poison" being on Suffolk in 1923, and he was, with Hospital, was walking in Queen's- the bottle. Neither do I remember the family during the whole of the road, near St. Francis Hotel, at a floating cork which is in the bot-three and a half years, except for 12.30 p.m., yesterday, a thief ap
behind and tle now.
Among the bottles was a few weeks when he was on holi-proached her from one containing the remains of some day. At Knaphill his daily wants snatched her handbag containing cough
labelled
other things to the money and The became.shorter and shorter, and he Linetus."
did not spend so much time in the value of $24. The thief got away Was there anything else of a garden. He was a paying guest pollonous nature that you remem- the house. Witness never. Baw ber?--No..
him write anything, but had seen Miss Hope said that she returned him sign documents, and she had to Nuthurst about October, 1926, been called upon to witness his As the outcome of the conference! and the Lerwills were the only signature..
between the Chinese Chamber of people who had occupied the house Mr. Rougier left off gardening Commerce and the Fllature Work- in the interval. There was a nurse very suddenly and became very era, the latter have agreed to re- belonging to the Lerwill family who feeble. He used to speak about sume work to-morrow-Reuter.' had lived with them. The Lerwills it himself and say it was due to old
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down a side lane.
RESUMING WORK.
Shanghai, To-day.
were not present when she return-age, but he never complained of New York, Yesterday.-Two of ed, and had left the key either with anything. The last few days of his the greatest steel producing organ- the agent or with a neighbour. We life he ate hardly anything, though|isations In América, namely the heard that somebody had died in they tried to tempt him to do so. United States Steel Corporation the house during our absences and She did not think he took his medi and the Bethlehem Steel Corpora went round to look at the rooms. cine during that time.
tion, have combined their export The Coroners Can you explain
supreme She told Mrs. Lerwill that she sales department in a more closely the cause of your dis- thought Mr. Rougier ought to be in effort to obtain a larger share of Batisfaction? The room emelt bed, but they could not get him to the foreign steel market. With musty and not very pleasant. I do
stay there. Mr. Lerwill did not this aim a special organisation has not know what it smelt of..
sleep at home the night before Mr. been formed to be called the Steel Export Association, which will Was there anything discoloured Rougier died, neither did she reabsorb the business of both com- in the room? The bedstead was. member seeing him during the day panies. Reuter's American Ser- The head. of the bed, a wooden one, Replying to the coroner as to vice.
had been polished, but the polish when she last saw Mr. Lerwill, wit-
was completely off the head. There ness said that it would be several Shanghai, To-day. - Long dis- was a grey look about it as if it had days before. Mr. Lerwill was intance telephonic communication be- been scrubbed. The bedding was the catering business and was away tween Dairen and Seoul via Mukden clean, and the cover, was clean. a great deal.
has been successfully Inaugurated.
Miss Hope added that she had since The Coroner' Was any offort --Reuter. destroyed the mattress of the bed. made so far as you know to have a It was not new mattress, and they doctor. brought to Mr. Rougier n were dissatlaffed with it.
Cupboard Intact.
Did you notice anything unusual about the cupboard in the -weet room which contained the bottles?
Nothing at all.
The contents were intact?—Yes. The door is slightly damaged? Yes, there is a broken hinga. Kit has been broken for years. I do not think that this defecf in hings has any bearing on the stent- ity of the lock.
the few days preceding his death? that as very affectionate?-Yea We said to Mr. Rougler that ne Mr. Rougler was very fond of both ought to go to bed and have a doc- cf them.
for, but he said he was all right. The jury asked why Miss Mr. Frampton: Do you know that Aldridge was so emphatic that "Mr. Mr, Rougier had been a friend of Rougier was worse for three days the Lerwill family, for some time? before his death. 'She replied, gler told me himself. "Nothing, only his appetite, failed, ere in the house you and he seemed weak. I asked him
of /observing, many times if he was all right, and between them he always said, Yes, quite all
I be right in describing The Inquest was adjourned.
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