LEG BITTEN OFF
SHARK ATTACKS BOY *. ■ - ~ • (Rec. <L3O) BRISBANE, This Day. A 13-year-old boy, Richard Joseph Maguire, was fatally mauled by a shark at EUis Beach, near Cairns, yesterday. , . The boy, who was bathing with other children in three feet of water, had his left leg bitten off art the hip. Two men dragged the'boy from the water, but he was dead when they reached the beach. The boy’s father was a witness of the' fatality.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 159, 18 April 1949, Page 3
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76LEG BITTEN OFF Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 159, 18 April 1949, Page 3
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