SUPERINTENDENT BROPHY.

Wairarapa Age, 4 May 1937, Page 6

SUPERINTENDENT BROPHY.

DECLARED MEDICALLY UNFIT. CHARGE AGAINST G. DAVIES WITHDRAWN. MELBOURNE, May 3. Superintendent Brophy, Chief of the Criminal . Investigation Branch of the Police Force, after examination by a Government Medical Board, has been declared medically unfit to return to duty. Inspector Brophy has been ill for many months, and medical advice was that he was unlikely to recover unless he could rest. The Attorney-General recently entered a nolle prosequi in the case against Davies. (Superintendent Brophy, head of the Criminal Investigation Branch of the Victorian Police Force, was shot on May 22 last yyear in circumstances which later led to the resignation of the 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 car bandits. On March 17 the Superintendent appeared in court and identified Geoffrey Davies as the man who had fhot him, and the man was committed for trial on the Charge of shooting with intend to murder).