BAYLY TO HANG

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 July 1934, Page 7

BAYLY TO HANG

. REPRIEVE NOT JUSTIFIED COUNCIL’S DECISION [PEB PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, July 14. The Executive Council at a special meeting at Government House, this morning, confirmed the sentence of death passed on William Alfred Bayly, at Auckland, for the murder of Samuel Pender Lakey and Christobel Lakey, of Ruawaro. An official statement issued after the meeting was as follows: “A meeting of the Executive Council was held at Government House this morning. His Excellency, the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, presiding. The case of William Alfred Bayly, under sentence of death for murder, was coifs i tiered. After the relevant papers concerning the case had been examined, the Executive Council found there was no reason for interfering with the sentence as passed in due form of the law.”

The meeting was called for 10 a.m., and the Ministers were hack at Parliament House at 10.40. The papers considered included a petition for a reprieve forwarded by Mr E. H. Northcroft, senior counsel for Bayly, and one from Mrs Bayly. The necessary papers will now be forwarded to the Sheriff of the Supreme Court at Auckland, whose duty it will be to carry the sentence into effect within seven days of the receipt of the notification of the Executive Council's decision.