RUAWARO MURDER TRIAL

Evening Star, Issue 21753, 22 June 1934, Page 8

RUAWARO MURDER TRIAL

JURY'S VISIT TO LOCALE EXAMINATION OF CRUCIAL SPOT? (Piit United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, June 22. A full day will be spent at Ruawaro to-day by the Bayly trial jury, who left Auckland shortly after B. MO a.m. in four cars in charge of the two constables who have guarded them throughout and a court official. The party was provided with a lunch hamper and thigh waders to enable them to make a thorough inspection of the Lakey and Bayly properties and the adjacent swamps. During the address for the defence Mr Northcroft referred to a number of places to which he invited the jury’s special attention, emphasising the view of Bayly’s cowshed and Lakey’s wattletree paddock to be obtained from other settlers’ farms. It is therefore thought probable that the jury will visit these other farms as well as spending a lot of time on Lakey’s considering the Crown’s reconstruction of the crime.

To-day is the first fine day of this week, so that the jury have been fortunate in their weather; but Ruawaro district will still be sodden after the recent heavy rain. _ Therefore it is anticipated that the jury will have to do a great deal of walking, as the clay roads may be impassable for the cars. The jury should arrive at Ruawaro about 11 o’clock, and will probably leave again at 4 p.m., when it is beginning to get dark, arriving hack at Auckland about 6 p.m., in time for dinner.