STAB BY STINGRAY
A.I.F. SERGEANT'S DEATH
Rec. 9 a.m. MELBOURNE, Feb. 5. Evidence given at the inquest today concerning the death of Sergeant Arthur Biggins, of the A.1.F., while swimming in the St. Kilda sea-baths, indicated that death was due to a stab in the heart by a stingray. Three soldiers who were swimming with Biggins said that after diving in he came to the surface and attempted to swim to the platform, and then disappeared. After 40 seconds he came up but did not break the surface, so they helped him out. Then they saw that he was wounded in the chest.
Medical evidence showed that the stab, a wound in the chest which penetrated the heart, was possibly caused by a stingray, and the coroner returned a verdict of death due to a hemmorhage caused by a stingray stab.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1945, Page 6
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141STAB BY STINGRAY Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1945, Page 6
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