RUAWARO MURDERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 221, 18 September 1934, Page 8

RUAWARO MURDERS.

DISTRIBUTION OF EXHIBITS. BONES FOR PATHOLOGIST. Since the conclusion of the Supreme Court trial of William Alfred Bayly for the murder of Samuel Pender Lakey and his wife Christoble Lakey, at Ruawaro last year, the 200-odd exhibits which were presented in the case have been locked in a room at central police headquarters, Auckland. Instructions have now been received for their disposal, and the charred bones believed to be those of Samuel Lakey, the murdered farmer, are to be handed over to Dr. Walter Gilmour, pathologist to the Auckland Hospital, who gave vital evidence during the trial. Dr. Gilmour was anxious to obtain possession of-the 00-odd pieces of bone, and the Police Department has now decided to hand them over to him. Most of the other important exhibits, such as the petrol drum in which the Crown alleged Lakey was burned, Bayly's Spandau rifle and Lakey's Remington, Bayly's knife with which it was alleged he whittled away bloodstains, and thetwo famous cartridge shells are to be sent to the Police Museum at headquarters in Wellington.