COOGEE DEATH TRAP.
DEATH OF GANNON. SYDNEY, Saturday. Mervyn Gannon, who was attacked by a shark at Coogee, has succumbed to bis injuries.—Press Assn. (Mervyn Gannon, aged twenty-one, was bathing waist-deep-within twenty; feet of the shore when he was attacked bv 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 Gannon the shark again attacked him, tea-rug off the fingers of the victim’s left hand. It also tore his 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 showed great fortitude. A movement is afloat to suitably recognise Brown’s heroism.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14608, 6 March 1922, Page 5
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