A CROCODILE
TAKES YOUNG CHILD
FROM HER BROTHER’S ARMS,
(Australian Press Association.)
(Received this day at 9.25 a in) BRISBANE, January 5
Tearing Betty Doherty, aged 4, from the arms of her brother aged 12, on the banks of Seymour river, a crocodile 'Hung the child into the river and sidled after her and disappeared with the hide " The pair had been sitting on the hank when a fourteen foot monster was seen bv the bov crawling towards them, before" he amid escape the crocodne seized his sister by the U‘g ami threw her into the stream. An exhaustive search proved fruitless.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1932, Page 5
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102A CROCODILE Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1932, Page 5
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