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BODY STRIPPED OF FLESH. ATTACKED BY A SHARK. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, December 4, A message from Townsville states that a shark horror was discovered when the skeleton of an unknown man was recovered from Ross Creek, with practically every vestige of flesh . eaten from the Medical opinion - was that the man nad not been in the water more than 48 hours. The head was still on the body, and the boots and socks were on the feet, but the skeleton was stripped clean.
Recently a man foil into the same creek, which runs through the town. He was in the water for only a few seconds when sharks attacked and killed him before the eyes of the people in the main street.
WAR IN THE UNDERWORLD. TWO MEN ARRESTED. SYDNEY, December 3. Arising out of the murder of Bernard Dalton, the police last night carried out a lonely, hazardous trek along the foreshore of Botany Bay, over boulders and through dense scrub, to a lonely hut, where they arrested Francis Green, aged 29, and another man. The former was charged with murdering Dalton, and the latter was charged with vagrancy. A further charge was preferred against Green to-day of attempting to murder Walter Tomlh son, who was shot at the same time ns Dalton. A Sydney message dated November 10 stated: —There was another violent underworld affray at Surry Hills Inst night, a fusillade of. revolvers resulting in Bernard Dalton (aged 45), an electrician, being shot dead. His companion, Walter Tomlinson (aged 29), a wharf labourer, was shot in the chest, and is dying. Edward Bradcy (aged 29) received a bullet wound in the right hand. Neither Bradey nor Tomlinson will give the police any clue to the assailants. They simply state that n dispute arose over the second Rugby League tost in England. DISASTROUS FIRE AT PRESTON. LOSS ESTIMATED AT £50,000. MELBOURNE, December 4. (Received Dec. 5, at 0.15 a.m.) A fire nt the ham and bacon factory of .1. C. Hutton nt Preston destroyed a large packing room and the (ontenta. The loss is estimated at £50,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20892, 5 December 1929, Page 10
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