SAD FATALITY

Grey River Argus, 17 October 1914, Page 8

SAD FATALITY

BOY SHOOTS HIS COUSIN

WHILE PLAYING AT COWBOYS. BY TSJLEGEAPH— PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, Oct 16. Two boys named Cyril Clifton (aged 13) and Jack O'Shea (11) were playing "cowboys" at Grey Lynn this morning when Clifton shot O'Shea dead, the bullet going through bis companion's heart. Clifton is a son of Mr. H. J. Clifton, a commercial traveller, residing in Millias Street, Grey Lynn. O'Shea's parants reside at Parnell. The boys were cousins. It appears that on Friday last, during Mr. Clifton's absence, a' strange man put his head into a window and frightened Mrs Clifton so much that she was afraid to remain in the house, and went to stay with her sister Mrs O'Shea, leaving Cyril and his cousin, sleeping there. Cyril states that on Tuesday night a strange man again appeared on the verandah. He took his father's revolver out of the drawer and had slept with it under his pillow since. When playing with his cousin this morning he got the. revolver and his cousin got a stick, pretending that they were cowboys or Indians. The revolver was always hard to fire, and he did not think, it would be discharged by the mere placing of a finger on the trigger.