EPILEPTIC’S SUICIDE
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 wag 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 Sumner.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 98, 9 April 1934, Page 11
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95EPILEPTIC’S SUICIDE Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 98, 9 April 1934, Page 11
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