COVERING UP HIS TRACKS.
ANXIOUS TO DISAPPEAR. FAKE SUICIDE STAGED. I EX-COLLEAGUE OF BYRD. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel.—copyright (Received December 4, 1.0 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 3. Richard Brophy, formerly second in command of the Byrd expedition, stag- jV ed a fake suicide at Coney Island last August, with the object of getting out of sight. lie succeeded until an editor from.y; Omaha, who had been looking over a Byrd expedition picture last week, recognised -a man working on his staff as Brophy. W, Upon discovery Brophy agreed to return to his sick wife in New York, hut overnight again disappeared. It was alleged that his friendship with a Broadway actress caused complications with Commander Byrd, and led to his dismissal in Dunedin.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17885, 4 December 1929, Page 5
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