VERDICT OF SUICIDE
Man Found With Throat Cut By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, April 8. Simeon Brophy, aged 41, was found in a small room adjoining the bar at the Royal Hotel on Friday, with his throat cut, and a razor lying beside him. He was taken to the public hospital, where he died last evening. An inquest was held to-day - before the coroner.. Mr. H. A. Young, who returned a verdict that Brophy died from a wound self-inflicted while suffering from epileptic fits. Papers found on Brophy indicated that his last address was the Public Works Department camp at Lake Sqmner.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 164, 9 April 1934, Page 11
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101VERDICT OF SUICIDE Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 164, 9 April 1934, Page 11
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