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Mirth Maker's Career Ends in Tragedy (on the death of Norman Clapham), page 1, Daily News (Australia) 15 April 1934

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English: Mirth Maker's Career Ends in Tragedy (on the death of Norman Clapham), page 1, Daily News (Australia) 15 April 1934
JOHN HENRY AND BLOSSOM

Mirth Maker's Career Ends in Tragedy

PATHETIC STORY

(Special to "The Daily News")

LONDON, May 14.

'FAREWELL! I hope I have given pleasure to many thousands of wire-less listeners. I cannot stand this life any longer," was the last broadcast of John Henry, "the man who made millions laugh," who committed suicide by gas poisoning today.

The message was written on a half-sheet of notepaper and referred to events following the recent death of "Blossom," with whom he toured Australia and New Zealand.

John Henry, or, as was his proper name, Norman Clapham, at the in-quest of "Blossom," following her death in childbirth, declared that she was his wife.

NOT HIS WIFE

Mrs. Hudson, the actress, with whom Clapham recently arranged to recommence his musical appearances in broadcasts as the "New Blossom," and also to make talkies, for which he had a £2000 contract, has now revealed that in a letter Clapham left, to be opened when be was dead, said:

"My dear Gladys, before she died, asked me to bury her in my name. We could not legally be married, but by everything else we were. I loved her, and swore that she was my wife in order to protect her memory. So I shall join my darling. I leave nothing but my good name to the thousands who have not seen me, and my useless body to the hospital where they were good to my girl."
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Source https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/83235869
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