Thurston - CO 533, 417/10 - 1931-32 - Mrs R. Oakley: claim for compensation for theft and arrears of husband's pay

Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Machakos - R. Oakley, Donyo Sabuk, Thika

Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Robert Oakley, British, age 52, died 7/3/29

Medals - East African Intelligence Department - Agent

Red Book 1912 - R. Oarley [sic] - Naivasha

Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Ukamba Area - Robert Oakley - Settler, Donyo Sabuk and Caroline Frances Gertruell Tatchell Oakley - Married woman, Athi Park, Chania Bridge

Gazette - 23/7/1929 - Robert Oakley late of Donyo Sabuk who died at Nairobi on 7 March 1929. Applied for by Caroline Francis Gertrude Tatchell Oakley of Donyo Sabuk

Guardian 12 Mar 1929  Nairobi, Monday. in the Supreme Court Crown Counsel asked for the withdrawal of the charge of ill treating a native brought against Mr Robert Oakley, a British farmer, who, since the proceedings were begun, had been found dead. Counsel urged that it would be manifestly unfair to allow the case to go to jury. Mr Oakley, who was the brother of Mr T. Oakley, MP for the Wrekin Division of Shropshire, after spending some weeks in gaol, was allowed out on bail and stayed at the house of a friend. During one night he left his friend's house and was later found dead with a bullet wound in his head. It was stated that he had been worried by the case because while in gaol his wife was by herself at their farm in a lonely district. Judgment was to be given today on the charge against Mr Oakley and on the charge against a policeman and Mr Oakley's native headman in aiding and abetting.

Daily Record 8 Mar 1929  The trial of Robert Oakley, a wealthy British farmer, on a charge of torturing his native 'boys', before the Supreme Court at Nairobi, took a sensational turn this morning when it was learned that the prisoner had escaped. Oakley had been permitted by the court to stay unguarded at the house of a Nairobi banker. During the night he made his escape through a window. The charge against Oakley to is that he extorted confessions of fowl thefts from natives by the employment of the native custom of constricting the fingers with bostrings. Police officers and Oakley's head boy are charged with aiding and abetting him.

Daily Telegraph 12 Apr 1929  It is reported from Thika that Mrs Oakley, widow of Mr Robert Oakley, who recently committed suicide, has been the victim of a violent assault at the hands of natives. They burgled and ransacked the house and seriously injured her. Mr Oakley had been charged with torturing a native to extract a confession regarding a theft of poultry, but on the eve of the court's decision he took his life by shooting. After his death he was acquitted of the charge. He left a note in which he said he had passed sleepless nights in the cell worrying over his wife being left all alone on their farm.