DEAD IN DUCK-POND

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 664, 17 October 1933, Page 5

DEAD IN DUCK-POND

(Press Assn.-

A FARM TRAGEDY WOMAN'S BODY FOUND HIDDEN BY ' BRIAR HUSBAND ALSO MISSING

-By Telegraph — Copyright).

Huntly, Monday. The hody of Mrs. Christahel Lakey, wife of Samuel Lakey, farmer -of Ruawaro, near Huntly, was found in a pond this morning. It had been covered with briar which partly hid it. Neighbours noticed that the cows had not been milked and found both Lakey and his wife missing. Their beds had not heen slept in and a shotgun kept in the house was not there. A party of Auckland detectives has gone to join in the search. There is, so far, nothing to indicate how Mrs., Lakey met her death unless it was by drowning. Her hody was found in a duck-pond in about 18ins of water. Mjrs. Lakey and her husband, who are childless, had lived together on the farm for a number of years and appear to have had a happy married life. They were well known in the district and were middle-aged. The four-roomed house where they resided, is in a somewhat isolatea position and is II miles distant from the nearest neighbour, Mrs. E. A. Wright. The couple milked about 30 cows and their holding was about 100 acres in extent.