MEDICALLY UNFIT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1937, Page 10

MEDICALLY UNFIT

VICTORIAN POLICE HEAD

(Received May 3, 1 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Superintendent Brophy, Chief of the' Criminal Investigation Branch of the Police Force, after an examination by I the Government Medic?! Board, has | been declared medically unfit for re-' turn to duty. Superintendent Brophy has been ill for many months, and the medical advice, was that he was not likely to recover unless he could rnst. The .Attorney-General recently en- j tered a nolle prosequi in the case of' Superintendent Brophy against Geoffrey ' Davies. ' - I Superintendent Brophy, head of the Criminal Investigation Branch of the Victorian Police Force, was shot on' May 22 last year in circumstances which later led to the resignation of the Commisioner and an investigation of the general administration of the Force Superintendent Brophy was wounded in the face and arm, and conflicting stories were told of the circumstances of the affair. The official account was that the Superintendent had gone to Royal Park in the endeavour to catch some car bandits. On March 17 the Superintendent appeared in court and identified Geoffrey Davies as the man who had shot him, and the man was committed for trial on the charge of shooting with intent to murder.