A FAKE SUICIDE
RICHARD BROPHY'S DISAPPEARANCE. (United Prose Association—By CableCopy rigl’t I (Received 4, 1.10 p.m.) New York, Dec. 3. Richard Brophy, formerly second-in-command of the Byrd Expedition, staged a fake suicide at Coney Island last August with the object of getting out of sight. Ho succeeded until an editor from Omaha, who had been looking over tho Byrd Expedition pictures last week, recognised a man working on his staff as Brophy. Upon 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 Commander Byrd and led to his dismissal in Dunedin.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 300, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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