DEATH IN HOTEL.
Per 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 injuries to his throat and a razor lying beside him. He was taken to the 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 Inst address was the Public Works Department camp at Lake Sumner.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 9 April 1934, Page 4
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