The Telegraph calla attention to a death which certainly appears
to demand more inquiry than it has yet received. Mr. C. D. T. Bravo, a rising and wealthy barrister of thirty, living at Balham, died on the 21st April at his residence, having been poisoned by a large dose of antimony, which he had swallowed apparently on the evening of the 18th. There is no doubt that he was poisoned, the only doubt being bow he came to swallow the poison. The Coroner of Surrey, Mr. Carter, seems to have been convinced that he poisoned himself, but there is no evidence of this. He was in good circumstances, very cheerful, and very unlikely to choose a painful irritant as a method of putting himself to death. At the time of his decease he was living at home with his wife, formerly a Mrs. Ricardo, and her companion, Mrs. Cox, and it is stated that Mrs. Cox informed one of the doctors called in that the deceased acknowledged to her that he had swallowed poison. He, however, when questioned by Sir W. Gull, denied absolutely that he had taken anything. The only food he had taken not tasted by the two ladies was some burgundy, which was found in his stomach with the antimony, and the remainder of the bottle was not examined. The police are investigating the case, but as yet there is no evidence where the antimony was obtained, or by whom, and the verdict of the Coroner's jury was an open one. No motive, either for suicide or for poisoning, is so much as suggested.
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