Some evidence given before the Royal Commission pointed towards an itinerant labourer, Thomas Day, who had not been considered a suspect by the police investigation. Day lived in a hut around from the murder site. One local woman claimed she saw a man on foot chase the Murphy's sulky as it passed on its way to the dance. This man had been standing opposite sliprails blocking the little-known access road that led to the murder location, but she was unable to identify him. Day had been seen by a number of people on earlier nights, walking along the road. Another witness claimed that he had seen Day washing blood from a pullover a few days later. Moreover, Constable Robert George Christie gave evidence at the Royal Commission that he suspected it was Thomas Day who was handed the revolver used in the Oxley murder by Edward Litton Carus-Wilson, and that it was the same revolver used in the Gatton murders. In 1906, a revolver with four spent chambers was found in the Swamp Paddock on the Gatton side of Clarke's butchery where Thomas Day was employed. Four shots were fired in the Oxley and Gatton murders. The actual name of the prime suspect for the Gatton murders was Theo Farmer who used the aliases of Thomas Day and Thomas Furner. It was rumoured after the Oxley and Gatton murders that he, and Edward Litton Carus-Wilson, the prime suspect for the Oxley murder, were related to some "might magnate". There was no "mightier magnate" than William Farmer who left Australia for England in 1874, which was the year Theo Farmer was born.