FOUND DEAD.

Wairarapa Age, 19 June 1936, Page 5

FOUND DEAD.

MR. P. 8. K MACASSEY, CROWN PROSECUTOR. DISCOVERY IN SUPREME COURT. WELLINGTON, June 18. 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. 1 Percy Seaborn Kettle Macassey, was discovered dead in his office in the Supreme Court buildings shortly before 8 o’clock to-night. The discovery was made by his brother, Mr. James E. Macassey, of St. Clair, Dunedin, and one of his partners, Mr. C. EvansBeott 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 at 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 as to 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 in the Supreme Court they discovered his 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 to be in the best of spirits and was looking somewhat off colour. He did not address the Court.—‘CPA..)