FATALITY AT AUCKLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2283, 17 October 1914, Page 10

FATALITY AT AUCKLAND

BOY SHOOTS HIS PLAYMATE. (By "Meffiaph— Press Aesooiatlon.) Auckland, October 16. Two boys—Cyril Clifton (aged 13) and Jack O'Shea (aged 11) —were playing at, cowboys at Grey Lynn this morning, when Clifton shot O'Shea dead, the bullet going through O'Shea'e heart. Clifton is a son of Mr. H. J. Clifton, a commercial traveller, residing in Millias Street, Grey Lynn. O'Shea's parents reside at Parnell. The boys were cousins, Mrs, Clifton and Mrs. O'Shea being sisters. It appears that on Friday last, during Mr. Clifton's absence, a strango man put his head in through a window and frightened Mrs. Clifton so much that she was'afraid to remain in tfhe house, and went to stay with her sister, Mrs. O'Shea, Cyril and his cousin sleeping there. Cyril states that on Tuesday night the strange man again appeared on the verandah, and 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, the pair pretending they were cowboys or Indians. The revolver was always laid to fire, but ho did not think it would be discharged by the mere placing of a h'nger on the trigger.