Struggle Between Blacks and a Crocodile
ABORIGINAL SEIZED BY THE MONSTER. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. BRISBANE, April 27. An account of a struggle between a tribe of Blacks and a crocodile after tho monster had seized a male aboriginal, has been given by William Downey, prospector, who has reached Mount Isa from the Northern Territory.
While camped near Victoria river .Downey and his mate saw a crocodile in shallow water with a native in its jaws and the entire tribe of Blacks endeavouring to lift it from the water. '.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. Downoy and his mate fired several shots into the air, frightening the aborigines away to give the riflemen a chance to kill the crocodile. They released the Black, who was terribly injured.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 99, 30 April 1935, Page 9
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