BROPHY’S FAKE SUICIDE
, \ AN EDITOR’S DISCOVERY ' FRIENDSHIP WITH ACTRESS (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Recd. December 4, 1 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 5. Richard Brophy, the former second / in command of the Byrd expedition, staged a fake suicide at'Coney Island last August,, with the object of getting out of sight. He succeeded until an editor in Omaha, who had been looking over the Byrd expedition pictures, last week, recognised a man working on his staff as Brophy. Upon this discovery, Brophy agreed to return to his sick wife in New York, but overnight again disappeared. It was alleged that his friendship with a Broadway actress caused complications with Byrd, and led to his dismissal in Dunedin.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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114BROPHY’S FAKE SUICIDE Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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