CRIME IN AUSTRALIA.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19894, 25 May 1936, Page 5

CRIME IN AUSTRALIA.

SENSITIONAL SHOOTING. SUPERINTENDEXT \\‘OUNDED. ATTACK BY A GANGSTER. United Press Assn.——l-‘.ln‘r T‘L Cnm’rlcm. MELBOI'HNE, May 24. A sensational shooting oiTalr is reported in which Superintendent. John O‘Connell Brophy, who began duty as chief of the Victorian Criminal Investigation Department a week ago, was the victim. It is stated that four shots were fired by gangsters from a car, and that one bullet struck one of Mr Brophy's cheeks, another his right arm. a third the back of his neck and a fourth his chest over the heart. The last bullet was deflected by something in his pocket. He is not in a serious con—ditiou. The Police Department is extremely reticent. Its press bureau in an official statement said that Mr Brophy was accidentally shot in the right arm while handling his own pistol at police headquarters. Reporters. however, who were banned at the detective omce, ascertained that Mr Brophy was shot by a hold-up gang who mistook him for a prominent Melbourne bookmaker who habitually carries a large sum of money min]? resides in the suburb of Park- \‘ C.