ATTACKED BY A SHARK

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2959, 23 December 1916, Page 9

ATTACKED BY A SHARK

;. —---♦ r~ ■' WIFE'S HEROIC ACTION. . ; | A-.fehocking tragedy occurred at Middle •Harbour,--Sydney,' on' December 8, w;heu. a man was killed through, being bitten - ' by a shark. ... ' Mr. Walter Cromwell-German, aged 11, j motor engineer, a, native'of England, re- | siding at Torquay Street, Middle Har- j bour, at about 9 a.m., was, as was : his custom, bathing with his wife in front -I of their residence. Mis. German was j separated from liim by a few yards. Sha , ■ was. not able to swini, .and-was not" in , j deep .water. Mrs. German heard : a ; scream, arid saw her husband struggling in the nater,. with blood all around him. She'rushed to him. In'consequence of ; .her cries, a neighbour, Mrs.'Evans, • arrived; whilst Mrs. German -was struggling to savo her husband, and the-two j womeii .carried Mr. German's body, ! ashore. . ' : . '.; The commotion made by Mrs. German evidently frightened the. shark, because •it made off, and did not make any fur- ■ ther attacks during the. attempts at rescue. ; ■ - The shark attacked its victim directly from the. front,'.its "teeth almost encircl-The-nraunds wers . .terrißtei'."t.Thi whoje; of de%sed's .cheH severing ..the right forearm .to-. the.' elbow-. One.'.of tliq dec'eaSejfs.'. tegs-.was' cut. clean' Ho 1 the bone at the' knee, this, it is surmised, belaf caused throueh the shark's .fin- v, -.