FOUND DEAD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 161, 19 June 1936, Page 2

FOUND DEAD.

Mr. P. S. Macassey, Crown Prosector. RiFLE IN HAND. Press Association —Copyright. Wellington, June IS. With a small bullet hole almost in the middle of his forehead and a sporting rifle in his left hand, the Wellington Crown prosecutor, Percy Seaborn Kettle Macassey, was discovered dead in his office in the Supreme Court building shortly before 8 o'clock to-night. The discovery was made by his brother, Mr. James E. Macassey, St. Clair, Dunedin, and one of his partners, Mr. C. EvansScott.

Although the discovery was not made until nearly 8 o'clock death is believed to have occurred some hours earlier, probably about 6 p.m. On the desk lay two briefs of cases in which Mr. Macassey had been engaged in the Supreme Court earlier in the day. Inquiries for Mr. Macassey's whereabouts were made by his family when he did not arrive home for dinner and when his brother and Mr. Evans-Scott entered his office they discovered the body. Mr. Macassey was occupied in his duties as Crown prosecutor in the Supreme Court in the morning when three prisoners appeared for sentence before Mr. Justice Blair. Mr. Macassey did not then appear in the best of spirits and was looking somewhat off-colour. He did not address the court.