ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 211, 19 June 1936, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

FOUND SHOT IN OFFICE. WELLINGTON CROWN PROSE- < OUTOR. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 19. With a small bullet hole almost in the middle of his forehead, and a sporting rifle grasped in his left hand, the Wellington Crown Prosebutor, Percy Seaborn Kettle Macassey, was discovered dead in his office in the Supreme Court building shortly before 8 o’clock to-night. '

The discovery wasy made by his brother, Mr James E. Macassey, of St. Clair, Dunedin, and one of his partners, Mr C. Evans-Scott, who is Assistant-Grown Prosecutor. Death is believed to have occurred some hours earlier, probably about 6 p.m. On the desk lay two briefs of“ cases in which Mr Macassey had been engaged in the Supreme Court earlier in the day. Mr Macassey was occupied in his duties as Crown Prosecutor in the Supreme Court in the morning, when three prisoners appeared for sentence before Mr Justice Blair. Mr Macassey did not then appear in good spirits, and was looking somewhat of]? colour. He did not address the court.

FOUND STRANGLED IN POLICE CELL.

(Per Press Association.) fiIMARU, _Jun‘e 18.

Wllelll- a constable entered the cell occupied by Joseph Earl Green, aged 26, unemployed, at 7.30 this morning he found the prisoner lying apparently asleep. Receiving no answor to a call, he pulled back the bedclothes to awaken Green, but found that his neck was wrapped in a towel, the prisoner lying face downward on. a pil—low. Evidently between 5 21.111. and 7.30 a.nl. Green had strangled himself. .Green appeared before the Magistrate on Wednesday on a charge of having stolen £2 at ’l‘imaru. He was granted bail on his own recognisance of £SO, with ome security of £SO. It is understood that Green origin—ally came from Gore.