Medically Unfit

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 7

Medically Unfit

VICTORIAN POLICE HEAD. United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph.—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 unfit for return to duty. Superintendent Brophy has been vli for many months, and the medical advice was that he was not likely *o recover unless he could rest. The Attorney-General recently en tered a nolle prosequi in the case of Superintendent Brophy againrt Geoffrey Davies. Superintendent Brophy, head of the Criminal Investigation Branch of the Victorian Police Force, was shot dn May 22 last year in circumstances which later led to the resignation of Qie Commissioner 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 ear 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.