TO DIE TO-MORROW.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 9

TO DIE TO-MORROW.

Bayly Receives Daily Visitors. • SHOWS SURPRISING CALM. (Special to the “ Star.”) AUCKLAND. July 19. When William Alfred Bayly, the young Ruawaro farmer, sentenced to death for the murder of .his neighbours, Samuel Pender Lakey and Christobel Lakey, is executed in the Mcunt Eden prison at 8 o’clock to-morrow morning, the final legal step in a case which is now nine months old will be taken.

Since the Executive Council decided last Saturday morning not to interfere with the sentence of death passed on Bayly at the end of his five weeks’ trial, the prisoner has been daily visited by the prison chaplain (the Rev G. E. Moreton). He has also been visited this week by his wife, his father (Mr Frank Bayly), his father-in-law (Mr T Palmer) and the Bayly family solicitor (Mr R. B. Lusk). The last-named three and Mr Moreton again visited the condemned man to-day. Although under a great strain during the seven months he has been in custody, Bayly is reported to have borne himself remarkably well, and even when he realised that all efforts to save his life had failed he still maintained a surprising calm.