Fatal Accident.
Bitten to Death by a Shark.
Napier, December 20. A most shocking fatal accident occurred this morning. Bright, Cooper and Abbott, sheep farmers, went with others to bathe on the beach. Cooper was a strong swimmer, and went out about twenty-five yards, when his companions who were near shore, saw the fin of a large shark near him, and they called out to him and made their way to the shore, and threw stones to frighten the shark, but they were horrified to see the water suddenly discolored with blood, though Cooper did not call out, and there was no struggling or splashing The body was next seen drifting, and his companions swam in and brought it to the shore. He was alive but unconscious, and died in a minute or two. The left arm was bitten clean off at the elbow, the rigbt at the wrist, a large bite had been taken off the left side of both legs, and other parts of the body were also bitten. Cooper was a yonng man of 28, prominent in athletic circles, and very popular. He was a batchelor an d his relations live in England and Cape Colony.
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Colonist, Volume XL, Issue 8746, 21 December 1896, Page 3
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199Fatal Accident. Colonist, Volume XL, Issue 8746, 21 December 1896, Page 3
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