A FAKE SUICIDE
BROPHY COMES TO LIFE BUT DISAPPEARS AGAIN (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Dec. 24, 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 3. [Richard Brophv, former second in command of the lived 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 Byrcl expedition pictures last week recognised„a man working on his staff as Brophv. Upon discovery llrophy agreed to return to his sick wife in New York, but over night 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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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 8
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115A FAKE SUICIDE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 8
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