HOSPITAL BOARD CLAIM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 July 1934, Page 2

HOSPITAL BOARD CLAIM

THE BAYLY TRIAL FEE FOR. EXPERT EVIDENCE (By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, 17th July. A claim for payment of £315 as a fee for the examination of police exhibits in the recent trial of William Alfred Bayly, who is to be executed on Friday, is to be made by the Auckland Hospital Board from the Department of Justice.

The finance'committec reported to the board that the pathologist. Dr. Cilmour. had furnished a' complete list of the examinations made in the laboratory. The committee recommended that a claim of £315 should he made on the Department, the charge to include the tees of attendance at the courts during the trial.

DISPOSAL OF EXHIBITS REMOVED FROM COURT’ AUCKLAND, 17th July. Exhibits totalling close on 300, which were part of the Crown case in the allegations of the double murder against William Alfred Bayly, who is to be executed on Friday morning, wore taken from. the Supreme Court this morning and lodged m the police headquarters. •Since the, hearing of evidence against Bayly in the Lower Court numerous and varied exhibits have been in the possession of officials in the Supreme Court and iiavc been under lock and key i:i tiie basement. As soon as the trial of Bayly was completed on 23rd June t!;e exhibits were taken from the. court and again locked below. They lay untouched until this morning, when on. behalf of the Police Department the detectives engaged on the Ruawaro inquiry took formal possession of them from the court. Many of the exhibits have to he return'd to their owners. Considerable interest attaches to the exhibits of burnt bone and charcoal, and it is understood that medical men engaged in the case are anxious to secure specimens for future reference and research. It is the practice of the Police Department to keep all important exhibits in murder cases in the police museum at headquarters in Wellington, but the final disposal of some of the main exhibits has >et to be decided, probably by the Minister of Justice.