CROWN PROSECUTOR’S TRAGIC END.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 June 1936, Page 5

CROWN PROSECUTOR’S TRAGIC END.

FOUND DEAD IN SUPREME COURT OFFICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night, With a small bullet hole almost in the middle of his forehead and a sporting rifle grasped in his left hand, the Wellington Crown Prosecutor, Mr, Percy Seaborn Kettle Maeassey, wms discovered dead in his office in the Supreme Court building shortly before S o’clock to-night. The discovery was made by his brother, Mr. James E. Maeassey, of St. Clair, Dunedin, and one of his partners, Mr. C. EvansScott, who is assistant Crown Prosecutor. Although the discovery was not made until nearly 8 o’clock death is believed to have occurred some hours earlier, probably about C p.m. On the desk lay two briefs of cases in which Mr. Maeassey had been engaged in the Supreme Court earlier in the day. Inquiries as to Mr. Maeassey’s whereabouts were made by his family when he did not arrive home for dinner and when his brother and Mr. Evans-Seott entered his oflice in the Supreme Couri they discovered the body. Mr. Maeassey was occupied in his duties as Crown Prosecutor in the Supreme Court in the morning whCn three prisoners appeared for sentence before Mr. Justice Blair. Mr. Maeassey did not then appear in the best of spirits and was looking somewhat off colour. He did not address the Court.