BODY STRIPPED BY SHARKS.
GHASTLY DISCOVERY IN CJREEK AT ffOWNSVILLE.
.(By Telegraph-Press Absh. -Copyright."* (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.
A message from Townsville states that a shark horror was discovered •when, the skeleton of an unknown nia'i was recovered from Ross Creek with practically every vestige of flesh eatc.i from the bones. Medical opinion was that the man had not been in the waiter more than 48 hours. The head was still on the body and boots and socks ■on the feet, but the skeleton was stripped clean. Becently a man fell into the same «reek f which runs through the town. He was in the water only a fow seconds, when«shaikjs attacked and killed him before the eyes of people in the main street.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 December 1929, Page 5
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