Ruawaro Murders.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19212, 19 September 1934, Page 7

Ruawaro Murders.

DISPOSAL OF EXHIBITS. BONES FOR PATHOLOGIST. THE POLICE MUSEUM. (Special to Star). AUCKLAND, Sept. 19. Since the conclusion of the Supreme Court trial of William Alfred Bayly for the murder of Samuel Pender Lakey and his wife, Christobel Lakey, at Ruawaro last year, the 200-odd exhibits which were presented in the case have been locked in a room at central police headquarters, Auckland.

Instructions have now been received for their disposal, and tho charred bones believed to be those of Samuel Lakey, the murdered farmer, are to be handed over to Dr. Walter Gilmour, pathologist to the Auckland Hospital, who gavo vital evidence during the trial. Dr, Gilmour was anxious to obtain possession of the 60-odd pieces of bone, and the Police Department has now decided to hand them over to him. Most of the other important exhibits, such as the petrol drum in which the Crown alleged Lakey was burned, Bayly's Spandau rifle and Lakey's Remington, Bayly's knife with which it was alleged he whittled away bloodstains, and the two famous cartridge shells are to be sent to the Police Museum at headquarters in Wellington.