WELLINGTON SENSATION

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 June 1936, Page 4

WELLINGTON SENSATION

SOLICITOR FOUND DEAD. SHOT THROUGH HEAD. WELLINGTON, Thursday. > 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 Percy Seaborne 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. Evans-Scott, who is Assistant Crown Prosecutor. Although the discovery was not made until nearly 8 o’clock, death is belijjed to have occurred some hours eaßer, 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. W -7 Enquiries 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 EvansScott 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.—(P.A.)