SHARKS IN TOWNSVILLE
(Received 4th December, 2 p.m.) TOWKSVILLE, This Day. % A shark horror was discovered when': the skeleton of an unknown man wa^ recovered from Ross Creek with prac-^ tically every vestige of flesh eaten frorn^ the bones. Medical opinion is that the^ man was not in the water more thaa'^ 48 hours. The head was still on the^ body and the boots and socks on the" feet, but the skeleton was stripped' clean. Recently a man fell into the ' same creek which runs through thetown. He had only been in th.» water a f7;? efl* As TVhen sharks attacked and killed him before the eyes of people in the mam street. •
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 12
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