SUICIDE IN HOTEL
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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 he was suffering from epileptic fits. Papers found on Brophy indicated that his last address was 1 the Public Works Department camp at Lake Sumner.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 26, 9 April 1934, Page 6
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98SUICIDE IN HOTEL Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 26, 9 April 1934, Page 6
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