COOGEE TRAGEDY
WHO RESCUED MERVYN GANNON? NO. DIRECT EVIDENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received March 15, 9.65 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 15. At the inquest on Mervyn. Gannon, the victim of the recent Ooogee tragedy, the coroner said he was unable to decide on the evidence who rescued Gannon, hut it was sufficient that they were brave men and did everything humanly possible to rescue him.
The cabled report of the occurrence stated that Mervyn Gannon, aged 21, was bathing waist-deep witnin twenty feet of the shore when he was attacked by a shark, which tore off his right hand. His agonised cries caused a general stampede from the water, but Jack Brown, beach inspector, dashed to the rescue of Gannon, who was fighting the shark off. When Brown reached 1 Gannon the shark again attacked him, -tearing off the fingers of the victim’s left hand. It also tore hie back and _ shoulder to the waist, and ripped his stomach. Brown stuck to his man and brought him ashore with the assistance of another surfer named Ernest Carr. Gannon was taken to the hospital, where he succumbed to hie injuries.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11160, 16 March 1922, Page 6
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