SHOOTING IN PARK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19045, 19 June 1936, Page 5

SHOOTING IN PARK

VARIANCE IN REPORT

INTERVIEW RECALLED

MELBOURNE, June 18.

Further evidence was given by' reporters to-day before the Royal Commission of inquiry into the shooting of Police Superintendent J. O. Brophy in Royal Park on the night of May 22. •;

Robert Lawson, of the Age, produced, shorthand notes of a statement made by Detective-Inspector A. T. McKerrall on the morning following the shooting. ""He was confident the statement by Detec-tive-Inspector McKerrall produced in court was not identical with the one issued to the press after the shooting. Reginald Warren, of the Sun Pictorial, said that he interviewed Superintendent Brophy at the hospital. The superintendent declared that it was not true as stated in the Herald that he was decoyed to Royal Park and he was not shot there. Superintendent Brophy had added : "I went to the Royal Park on an official mission. I was standing alone with a revolver in my left hand, which became sweaty. I made an attempt to change it to the rigiht hand and the weapon, exploded. It twice wounded me —in„the right forearm and the ch^eki" The witness said'he asked Superintendent Brophy why the pistol went off twice, and the superintendent had re-plied:-"They are finely set." The inquiry was adjourned.