SUICIDE FAKE
FORMER BYRD OFFICER
SECOND VANISHING ACT, (Received 2 ip.tn.) INEW YORK, December 3. Richard Brophy, 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 from Omaha, who had been looking over a Byrd expedition picture last week, recognised a man .working on his staff as Brophy. Upon this discovery Brophy agreed to return to Ms* 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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Northern Advocate, 4 December 1929, Page 5
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109SUICIDE FAKE Northern Advocate, 4 December 1929, Page 5
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