EATEN BY SHARKS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 245, 3 October 1911, Page 3

EATEN BY SHARKS.

FATE OF TAA’O BROTHERS.

MORE HUMAN REMAINS. Wollongong, Sept. 27. Some further light has been thrown on the surf tragedy at Thirroul last Sunday week. Two brothers, William Nicol, aged 10 years, a married man, and his brother, George Nicol, aged 25, single, had been on a week-end trip. The brothers had been sporting in the surf, the two little daughters of William Nicol being spectators. After a time the bathers, being satisfied with their dip, made for the shore, when both suddenly disappeared. The little girls became alarmed, and ran screaming for help ; but a search up till dark was without result, no trace of the bodies being found. The first hint of what had possibly happened to the brothers was given last Saturday by the capture of a shark by some fishermen, who found in the stomach contents portion of a human breast.

Now comes further proof of the ghastly end of the bathers. The fishermen who captured the shark on Saturday off Austinnier this morning caught another at Coalcliff, close to Austinmer. In view of their previous hornble discovery, the fishermen were prompted to hoitt a further post mortem examination, and were again shocked to find further human remains, this time the portion of a forearm. It is now considered beyond doubt that the Nichols were taken by sharks. The fact that they disappeared suddenly near the spot"where the sharks wore captured seems to bear.out the theory.