TRAGEDY IN HOTEL
MAN COMMITS SUICIDE. r Per Press /..•sociation. | 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 wa.s taken to f e 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 from epileptic fits. Papers found on Brophy indicated that his last address was the Public Works Department camp at Lake Sum-
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19340409.2.91
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 83, 9 April 1934, Page 7
Word Count
101TRAGEDY IN HOTEL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 83, 9 April 1934, Page 7
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.