RUAWARO MYSTERY
POLICE INVESTIGATIONS SHOTGUN FOUND IN SWAMP. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 31. The police, who have been working for a fortnight at Ruawaro in an endeavour to find the body of Samuel Lakey, the farmer who disappeared at the same time as his wife was found dead with her head in a duck pond, yesterday found a gun in a nearby swamp. This is regarded as an important clue to the mystery, and the police worked on till dark, using spades and jakes in the swamp, and resumed soon after daylight. The police are said to be hopeful now of the mystery being solved.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22099, 1 November 1933, Page 9
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