SHOOTING FATALITY

Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 126, 27 April 1897, Page 2

SHOOTING FATALITY

(l)Y TEIiKfiRAPII OWN UOBKKSI>()NDKNT). AU KI.ANI), Last Night. At about half-pa't seven this morning, an unfortunate fatality occurred at the (ilenalvou Boarding-house, in Syniondsstreet. kept by Mrs Scheldt'. Alexander Ko.er MeKellar, one of the boarders, went into the garden at the tide of the house with a pea rifle, intending, he explained to the housemaid, to shoot any cats he s'W ab.ut the premises, as til"}' had kept him awake all night. A few minutes later a shot was heard, and in the gard ner goint; to the spit lie found the dead body of 110 Kellar, with a liu"et hole in the fore-he-id on the sloop : ng glass bink outside the house.

How the decease 1 received the injur'ea it is impossible to state, but Mr.- fcherflf considers it very likely that while he Was passing down the bank he was us'ng the rifle to assist him, and that something caught the trigger. Deceased was a s.ngle man, about .'52 yens of age, and had I ecu in the colony for about seven years, during fcur of which he had been residing at Glenalvou. He was a native of St. Andrew'*, .Scotland, and is said to have spent some yeas in Ceylon, where be wa3 engiged in the tea trade. He leaves a biothtr, who is a tea planter in Ceylon.