The basic details sound like the ingredients of a wild west movie: a country town, a lone gunman, armed police and a shootout at the local railway station.
But unlike a Hollywood blockbuster, the events at the small South Australian settlement of Riverton on March 22, 1921, have never resolved themselves into neat explanation.
Several people were wounded and two were killed, including Percy Brookfield — a charismatic, maverick MP who had held the balance of power in the New South Wales Parliament.
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