SUICIDE IN NEW YORK
SHOT HEARD OVER TELEPHONE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, September 14. Mr B. Bernard Butterfield, aged twenty-six, local commercial agent for Reuters Limited, committed suicide in an apartment to-day. Ho telephoned to an assistant, Allen Trowor, at Reuter’s office, and said: “ Will you please hold the lino a minute?” Trower heard a detonation, and hurried to Butterfield’s apartment, where he found the latter had shot himself through the mouth with a shotgun.
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Evening Star, Issue 21518, 16 September 1933, Page 13
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76SUICIDE IN NEW YORK Evening Star, Issue 21518, 16 September 1933, Page 13
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