TODAY'S PROCEEDINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 8

TODAY'S PROCEEDINGS

MORE DOCTORS HEARD

CORROBORATIVE VIEWS

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) , AUCKLAND, This Day. . When the Court opened this morning for the ninth day of the hearing of the murder charges against Bayly. 200. typewritten foolscap pages of evidence had beeh_ completed and upwards of, 160 exhibits produced. Many more exhibits, mostly photographs, have still t : q be produced. ft ■■ ; .'There, was again a large crowd-'at the Court. Most of the. morning was* taken'up by Mr. Kenneth MacCormick's corroborative: evidence relating to the bones; He agreed with the classification ,' made. by Dr. Gilmour and Dr. Lynch, and described at'length: characteristic, features of the skull bones. .. .s'Dr.'-A.: G.Waddell, of: Hamilton, said that on October 17, with Dr. Mac Far■ land, :of Huntly,- he saw Mrs. Lakey's body in the; morgue. Two days later, With Dr. Gilmour, he carried out'a post-mortem examination. Tho witness 'detailed the result of that examination, corroborating.'Dr. .Gilmpur's conclusions.' He said.that in his opinion ,the woman was alive when her face wag put in-the water and death was due,to asphyxia. The hemorrhage was probably attributable to two or three heavy blows on the face, which would probably knock, her unconscious. MICROSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHS. < Senior-Sergeant E. W, Dihnie, in charge, of. the. Criminal Registration Branch-in-Wellington, was recalled. He said that at Auckland ■in November ho took several, photographs with a microscopic lens which magnified them eight atid-.a half times. The photographs were' of a-cut mark on a piece of timber re-moved-from' the rails near Lakey's House. He then photographed through tl»e;same -magnification the cutting edge of-a,.,knife. , The- witness produced a photograph ■of the knife in nino sections joined together. He said ho next examihed the cut on the piece of timber;;; He found-that it ran from right ts left. He photographed the cut mark atid'eut it across at approximately a right angle- to, the ridges shown, on it. He then arranged the photograph showing.the ridges on the timber and one shoeing the-knife, edge in, correct positioji. He then started from the front of Vthe, knife, passing the photograph of thej'wobd cut slowly along towards the han.dle. - • ■■ ■ . :

''I found nothing corresponding until nearinjg the handle," continued the witness '"I found certain notches on the •laiifa which corresponded to the ridges oil the wood." -'After further description, the witness said:."From comparisons I have made of tjhese exhibits—knife and piece of timber—l feel convinced that this is the knife that was used in cutting that section" of timber." The witness produ'ceil further ■ photographs, which, he sajd,V showed the impression of steel w^eri pressed into wood. •toni January 6 and 7 at Wellington, he^ said,.he assisted Dr. Brown, of the Aiicklind University College, to take microscopic phptographs of tho fire and. pii| mark on a .22 cartridge case, of two test cartridge cases, and of fire and pin marks* from a rifle which was produced in 'jCourt earlier.

The<| witness was questioned by Mr. ■Noirthbroft at some length concerning the,position of the piece of wood photographed, the lighting used, and the circumstances under which the photographs;, were, taken. ; The- pourt adjourned till 2.15 p.m.