EATEN BY SHARKS
MAN’S TERRIBLE DEATH TOWNSVILLE TRAGEDY . - (E)ec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.-) (Received Dec. 4, noon.) SYDNEY, Dec. 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 prac-. tically every vestige of flesh eaten from the bones.
Medical opinion was that the man had not been in the water more than 48 hours. The head was still on the body, and boots and socks on the feet, but the skeleton was stripped clean. Recently a man fell into the -same creek, which runs through the town. He was in the water only a few seconds when sharks attacked him and killed him before the eyes of people in the main street.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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128EATEN BY SHARKS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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