Biography

Alias Bertie or Murty. The Daily News reported on Saturday 23 June 1894: "Yesterday the body of a man, who had evidently been buried alive, was unearthed on Potato Flat, which is situated close to Bayley's Reward claim. The deceased, who was known by the name of Murty Broderick, was working as a dry-blower, when a portion of an embankment near which he was engaged, while looking for alluvial, fell in and smothered him. Broderick's body was discovered by two other dry-blowers, who state that their attention was directed to the mullock heap which covered him by a portion of his waistcoat protruding therefrom. His body was still warm when they found him." Broderick died from a fall of earth in the alluvial workings at Fly Flat. He undermined part of an embankment which collapsed on him, burying him. Siblings John, Michael, Jeremiah, and Julia wife of Jeremiah O"BRIEN all living in Rossanean Farranfore, County Kerry Ireland; Administration has date of death as 18 June 1894, administration has a lot of family information within it.