MEDICALLY UNFIT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 May 1937, Page 2

MEDICALLY UNFIT.

VICTORIAN POLICE HEAD. (’Ey Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) MELBOURNE, May 3. Superintendent Brophy, Chief of the Criminal Investigation Branch of the Police Force, after an examination by the Government Medical Board, has been declared medically unlit for re- ' turn to duty.' Superintendent Brophy has been ill, for many months, and the medical advice was that he was not likely *o recover unless he could rest. The Attorney-General recently entered a nolle prosequi in the case of Superintendent Brophy against Geoffrey Davies.

Superintendent Brophy, head of the Criminal Investigation Branch of the Victorian Police Force; was shot ch May 22 last year in circumstances which later led to the resignation of %e Commissioner and an investigation of the genera] 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 Eoyai 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.