ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23689, 22 December 1938, Page 12

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FOUND SHOT ON BED PEA RIFLE BESIDE BODY (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Dec. 21. Shortly after 8 o'clock to-night Boyre Clark McConachy. aged 20, a labourer, the eldest son of Mr Clark McConachy, of Mount Eden, was found shot on his bed with a pea rifle besjde him. Mr McConachy. sen., is the well-known New Zealand billiards player. After tea the deceased, his brother, and their father went on to the back lawn to practice archery, of which they are all fond. The elder son went back to the house, and not long afterward his younger brother found him on the bed with a bullet wound below the heart. The rifle was one which was usually kept in a wardrobe. INFANT DROWNED MOTHER'S TRAGIC DISCOVERY (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 21. Raymond Arthur Charles Richards, aged 21 months, whose parents, Mr and Mrs Charles Richards, live at Wakefield avenue, Sumner, was found drowned at his home about 1 p.m. today. The discovery was made by the mother, who found the child lying with its head in a sump outside the kitchen. Dr R. F. Bakewell, of Sumner, was called in, but nothing could be done to save the child. An Inquest will be held.