ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
FOUND WITH THROAT CUT. (Per United 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 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 epiliptic fits. Papers found on Brophy indicated that his last address was the Public Works Department camp at Lake Sumner.
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Southland Times, Issue 22294, 9 April 1934, Page 5
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