RUAWARO MYSTERY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 284, 28 October 1933, Page 4

RUAWARO MYSTERY

POLICE REINFORCEMENTS. PUZZLE STILL"UNSOLVED. HLJNTLY, Oct. 27. Four extra constables liave arrived at Ruawaro from Auckland to aid in the search for the body of Mr Samuel Pender Lakey, who disappeared from liis homestead twelve days ago, almost simultaneously with the discovery of Mrs Christobel Lakey’s body in a duck pond near the farm house. With so much depending on the finding of Mr Lakey’s body, the intensity of the police search is maintained. Areas more than 20 miles away from the Lakey farm were searched yesterday by police under Sergeant Bissett and Detectives T. Snedden, T. A. Allsopp and J. Findlay, who made a careful examination of a large cave in the limestone hills in the Naike district. They found their way half a mile into the cave, and explored a swift-running underground stream. —Auckland Star correspondent. SEEN ENTERING FARM. MAN WITH A VEHICLE. HAMILTON, Oct. 27. It is reported that the police at Ruawaro have been given information which they consider may have an important bearing on the investigation, dhe report is that on the morning before the tragedy a drover driving a herd along the road was passed by a man in a vehicle, winch the drover saw enter Lakey’s property. The man recognised the drover..