NARROW ESCAPE
POLICE SUPERINTENDENT HOW BULLET WAS DEFLECTED MELBOURNE, May 25 The police have issued an official statement concerning the shooting of Superintendent Brophy, Chief of the Victorian Criminal Investigation Department. This states that Mr. Brophy went to lloyal Park on Friday night to try to catch some ear bandits who were operating in that locality. He was held up by two arrfied men who apparently recognised him. The men tired three shots before Mr. Brophy could manipulate his own revolver, which jammed. One bullet passed through Mr. Brophy's lower jaw, just missed a vital artery and emerged at the back of his neck. Another broke his right wrist and a third was deflected from his heart l\v the buckle of his braces.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22428, 26 May 1936, Page 9
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