CONFLICTING STORIES

Wairarapa Age, 18 June 1936, Page 5

CONFLICTING STORIES

AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS. SHOOTING OF BROPHY. REPOBTEES GIVE EVIDENCE. (Eeceived Wednesday, 9.10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, June 17. At the inquiry by Royal Commission into the shooting of Police Superintendent Brophy to-day’s witnesses were mainly reporters on the "Argus,” “Age,” "Herald” and "Sun Pictorial,” who gave evidence of conflicting stories told at police headquarters following the shooting of Brophy. Earl Robinson, of the “Sun Pictorial” and Laurence Whitehead, of the “Herald” both said that the statement produced at the inquiry was not the one they had seen at the police press bureau. The handwriting and phrasing were different. Lionel Luxton, of the "Argos,” explained that he and another reporter interviewed Brophy at hospital He referred them to Detective McKerral, who issued a corrected statement regarding Brophy’s injuries and the manner in which they were caused. Later in the evening one of the broadcasting stations put over the air still another, a more detailed, version. Detective McKerral was called on the telephone and when told about it he insisted that both the press and the broadcasting statement were the same but if the latter was different then somebody had coloured it.