KILLED BY HUGE SHARK
YOUNG BOY’S TERRIBLE END SYDNEY SURF-BATHING TRAGEDY. FLESH STRIPPED FROM HIS LEG. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 3, 7.30 p.m. Sydney, Jan. 3. The weather was fine for the holiday and very hot, and the surf drew great crowds. A boy named Mervyn Allum, aged 15, was bathing with other boys at Port Hacking when he was seized by a large shark, which stripped the flesh from his leg and lacerated the lower cart of his body. His companions drove the monster off and Allum was brought ashore, but died en route to the hospital.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1927, Page 9
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