BITTEN BY SHARK
MAN'S FINGER LACERATED [from oyu owx correspondent] DXEY, July 14 When .Mr. Robert Gillis. of Watson's Bay, called at the Svdnev IJuspital lately to have stitches insured in a fdeep wound in his right index finger, lie stated tliqt the gash had been caused by a shark. Mr. Gillis had caught a crey nurse shark outside the Heads, and towed it to the beach at Watson's Bay. Thinking it was dead, Gillis opened the shark's moijth, and was bitten on the finger. A knife had to be forced between the shark's jaws before it would releaso its hold. Mi*. Gillis had nine stitches inserted in the wound.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21859, 23 July 1934, Page 6
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