NEW LINE OF SEARCH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18252, 22 November 1933, Page 7

NEW LINE OF SEARCH

RUAWARO MYSTERY INQUIRIES FOR LAKEY (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. An important phase of the Ruawaro mystery is receiving attention in Auckland. Members of the detective staff were engaged yesterday on inquiries among doctors and chemists in the city and suburbs as to whether they had recently attended a person answering the description of Samuel Pender Lakey, tho farmer who has been missing since October 15, the date on which it is believed that his wife, Mrs Christobel Lakey, received fatal injuries. It is. also stated that the police are interested as to whether Lakey could have stayed at any Auckland hotel. The inquiries are : by no means complete, and they are to bo continued with thoroughness. The purpose is evidently one of routine. The theory that Mr and Mrs Lakey were both murdered was formed early in the first week of the investigations, but the police are not able to ignore aDy other possibility. The first assumption was that Mrs Lakey, who was found with her face immersed in a duck pond a short distance from the farmhouse, died following a seizure. Ever since the first day of the inquiry, tho police have been concerned principally with tracing Lakey, or finding his body. Several weeks ago the Commissioner of Police, who has visited Ruawaro on several occasions, announced that a reward of £IOO woqld be paid for the discovery of Lakey or his body. The sum is still available for such a discovery, or information leading to tho tracing of Lakey, alive or dead. No announcement has been made concerning the possible date of the resumption of the inquiry concerning the death of Mrs Lakey, but it is not expected to be held until the current investigation is considerably more advanced.

Meantime, tho eiamination by experts of material and specimens forwarded from Ruawaro is progressing in Auckland. v ■