"It’s a mystery they will never solve." Traditional Cache
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"It’s a mystery they will never solve."
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Small cache hidden outside Aldershot Military Cemetery. I'm told the coordinates are out but as yet no two suggestions for corrections have been the same.
On the afternoon of 20 June 1931 Lieutenant Hubert Chevis, an instructor at the Aldershot Training Camp, and his wife Frances had an early dinner as they wanted to attend the local military tattoo that night. Dinner was Manchurian partridge which was served onto the sideboard in the dining room, where Mrs Chevis carved it.
After Hubert had eaten a mouthful of the bird, he summoned his batman, saying "Take this bird away. It is the most terrible thing I have tasted." His wife tasted the meat and agreed with him. Not long after ingesting the mouthful of partridge, Hubert started experiencing severe cramps and convulsions and a doctor was called. Later that evening Mrs Chevis also fell ill. A second doctor was called and the couple was admitted to Frimley Cottage Hospital.
Hubert died at 1am the following morning. Two grains of strychnine were found in his stomach. Mrs Chevis subsequently recovered, as she had only tasted the meat.
His father, Sir William Chevis, received a telegram on 24 June- the day of his son's funeral. It was from a J. Hartigan and had been sent from Dublin. All the telegram said was, "Hooray, hooray, hooray!" On the back of the telegram was "Hibernian", a well known hotel in Dublin. The police were notified, but nobody of that name was found at the hotel. Subsequent police enquiries undertaken by Dublin Police later found that a Dublin chemist had sold strychnine about four weeks earlier to a man who was similar in appearance to the man who had visited the telegraph office and sent the telegram in the name of J. Hartigan.
Chevis's father also received a postcard on 4 August 1931 from Hartigan that said, "It’s a mystery they will never solve."
Lieutenant Chevis’ grave is in Aldershot Military Cemetery, marked with a stone cross.
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