LAKEY MURDER
POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING. l Per Pre 88 Association, Copyright). AUCKLAND, November 21. Detectives are now inquiring at Auckland among doctors and chemists in the city and suburbs a s to whether they had recently attended a person answering the description of Samuel Pender Lakey, farmer, who has been missing since October 15, the date on which it is believed his wife, Mrs Christobel Lakey received fatal injuries.
The police are interested as to whether Lakey could have stayed at any Auckland’ hotel. Inquiries are to be continued with thoroughness. The purpose is evidently one of routine. The theory that Mr and Mrs Lakey were both murdered was formed early in the first week of the investigation, hut the police are not able to ignore any other possibility. No announcement lias been made concerning the possible date of the resumption of the inqugst concerning the death of Mrs Lakey.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1933, Page 4
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