RUAWARO MYSTERY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19627, 23 October 1933, Page 2

RUAWARO MYSTERY

POLICE THEORY OF DOUBLE MURDER. By Telegraph -Pres* Association HUNTLY, October 20. Detectives and police e -■aged on the Runwaro mystery are now working on a sensational theory that Mr and Mrs Samuel Pender Lakey were both murdered. Clues picked up during the past two days have completely dispelled any suggestion that Mrs Christobel Lakey died from natural causes and the first theory that, after indlng his wife dead in the duck pond, Mr Lakey went away and shot himself has also been abandoned. Several exhibits to which are attached the gr. -test importance have been sent to Auckland. Part of the ide o a shed, slats of .rood and a cart wheel found in a paddock some distance away from the house are to be tested for'blood. Small quantities of blood have been found in most Jiexpected places, but even with tnese clues t- . police have been unable to trace the missing farmer. •71th tile double murder theory e’lengthened by several convincing clues, the case is fast developing . -to one of the most remai able in the history of New Zealand crime, and if the double murder theory proves correct, and there is every reason to believe that that is the answer to the ex. traordlnary riddle, then a murder diabolically clever in Us conception will be rerealed. Many circumstances point to a double murder. Inquiries from neighbours and close frlenus of the Lakeys have proved that they wer- a devoted jouple, and none of .heir friends will relieve that Mr Lakey would have mrmed a hair of his wif Vs head, ouiride on the part of Mrs Lakey was mpossible, because she could not have covered herself with sacks as her body was colored hen disco -red. A singular Incident was the fact that the driver of the lorry that collects Lakey's cream noticed on Monj morning that the two cans were not placed in the usual manner, lndl.ating that they must have been placed by nomebody else. p\AINTY Lingerie. Tint to taste with Fairy Dyes. 6d tube.