CROCODILE SHOT.
Aboriginal Rescued from Monster's Jaws. NORTHERN TERRITORY DRAMA. (Received 11 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. An account of a struggle between a tribe of blacks and a crocodile after the monster had seized a male aboroginal was given by Mr. William Downey, a prospeqtor, who reached Mount Isa from the Northern Territory. While camped near Victoria River, Mr. Downey and his mate saw a crocodile in shallow water with a native in its jaws. An entire tribe was endeavouring to lift it from the water, and one aboriginal, in trying to drive his spear into the crocodile, struck it a glancing blow and pinned the crocodile's victim through the thigh to the sand. Mr. Downey an<7 his mate fired several shots into the air, frightening the aborigines away and giving the riflemen a chance to kill the crocodile. They released ths black, who was terribly injured.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 9
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