BOY KILLED BY A SHARK.

Taihape Daily Times, 24 January 1919, Page 5

BOY KILLED BY A SHARK.

SYDNEY HARBOUR FATALITY.

FLESH TORN FROM THIGH

While bathing off Sirhis Cove beach Mosinan, on January 9, a boy of 13 years, named Richard Simpson, was attacked by a shark*. He wasttaVerely injured, and dfed almost immediately The boy had been • gathering wood near the beach, and afEer he had loaded a little handcart, he put on a costume and 'entered the water. The tide was low, and he waded out about 20yds from the shore and commenced to swim. Another bather, Mr F. J. Sommerhoff, was walking on the sand, when he lizard agonising cries from the boy. He callfcd a local fisherman, Mr Thomas Holder, who rowed over the spot, and the shark darted away. The boy rose to •surface almost immediately and Holder lifted him into the boat and took him ashore.

Dr. Doak, of Military Road, was sent for, but when he arrived a flew minutes later*, Simpson was dead, Ttte shark bit Simpson on the right thigh and inflicted a wound almost a foot long and about Gin, or Tinwide. The monster's tdeth tore the flesh away and laid bare the bone. Sharks have b&m particularly numerous this suninwr, and many have bieen caught off the Sydney beaches Many large sharks have beten seen in the harbour, and there have been some narrow escapes. Off the surfing beacWes the monsters have been seen by the score, and Coogee and other fisMermen have had many exciting tussles with them. Sirus Cove was the scen?e of a similar fatality on New gear's Day, 1915. A resident of Mosman, Warren Tooze, was attacked while bathing off the beach. His companion. Herbert Parle, swam to his assistance, caught hold of him with his left baud, and was swimming back to th?- 1 shore with him when the monster attacked him. Parle, by screaming and shouting and splashing, frightened the shark away and got Tooze ashore. The injured man, however, died subsequently in Sydney Hospital. '*,,