Faked Suicide
BROPHY COMES TO LIFE AGAIN EX-OFFICER OF BYRD’S PARTY [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] NEW YORK, Dec. 3. Richard Brophy, former second in command of the Byrd Expedition, staged a fake suicid e 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 the Byrd expedition pictures last week, recognised a man working on his staff as Brophy. Upon discovery :ro.phy agreed to return to his sick wife in New York, but overnight he again disappeared. It was alleged that his friendship with a Broadway actress caused complications with Byrd and led to his dismissal in Dunedin. It will be recollected that Brophy came to New Zealand in advance of Commander Byrd prior to the departure of th e party for the Antarctic. He wag described as business manager, and to go south he intended to work his way as a stoker. However, he went back to America and staged a fake suicide at Coney Island.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 289, 5 December 1929, Page 9
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171Faked Suicide Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 289, 5 December 1929, Page 9
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