YOUTH FOUND SHOT
SUN OF NOTED BILLIARDS PLAYER AUCKLAND, 21st December. Shortly after eight o’clock • to-night, Boy re Clark McConachy, aged 20, a labourer, the eldest son of Mr Clark McCoriachy, Mount Eden, was found shot on a bed with a pea rifle beside him. Mr McConachy, sen., is the well-known New Zealand billiards player. After tea Boyre MeConachy, his brother. and their father, went on to the back lawn to practice archery, of which they were all fond The elder son went back to the house, and not long aftexnvard hi-' younger brother found him on the bed with a bullet wound below the heart. The rifle was one usually kept in a wardrobe.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 22 December 1938, Page 9
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115YOUTH FOUND SHOT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 22 December 1938, Page 9
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