STRANGE SUICIDE
(Press Assn.
TELEPHONE EMPLOYED TO INDICATE DEATH PLEASE HOLD THE LINE
— By Telegraph— Copyrlght).
(Rec. 7.15 p.m.) New York, Sept. 15. Mr. Bernard Butterfield, aged 26, local commercial agent for Reuter's Agency Ltd., committed suicide in his apartment to-day. He telephoned his assistant, Mr. Alan Trover, at Reuters' office, and said: "Will you please hold the line •a. minute?" Mr. Trover then heard a detonation and on hurrying to Mr. Butterfield's apartment found that he had shot himself through the mouth with a shot-gun.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 638, 16 September 1933, Page 5
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86STRANGE SUICIDE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 638, 16 September 1933, Page 5
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