PITIFUL STORY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 51, 16 October 1914, Page 5

PITIFUL STORY

BOY SHOOTS KiS COUSIN. PLAYING AT COWBOYS AT GREY LYNN. SHOT THROUGH THE HEART. £PIB PRIH ASfIOCTATIOH.] Auckland, Octobe* 16. Two boys, Cyril Clifton aged 13, and Jack O'Shea) aged 11, w.ere playing .at .(jowboys, at ; Grey Lvnn this , morning, when Clifton shot O'Shea dead, the bullet going . through his companion's heart. Clifton is the eon of Mr H. J. Clifton, commercial traveller, residing at Millias Street, Grey Lynn, O'Shea's parents reside at Parnell. The boys were cousins, Mrs Clifton and Mrs O'Shea being sister" It appears that on Friday last, during Mr Clifton's absence, a Gi.ra.ng© man put his head into the window and frightened Mrs. Clifton sc much that she was afraid to remain in the house, and went to stay wjth her sister, Mrs O'Shea, Cyril and his cousin sleeping there. Cyril states that on Tuesday' ni<^' 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, oretendinn; they were cowboys or Indians. The revolver was always hard :o fire, arid he did not think .it would be -discharged by the mere placing, ot his finger on the trigger.