KILLED BY SHARK

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 445, 28 May 1937, Page 7

KILLED BY SHARK

MAN SWIMMING IN CREEK Terrible Injuries Inflicted Brisbane, May 20. Ths tragedy that caused the death of Mr. Wilkam Malan Mayer Tennant, aged 33, on Saturday night, was one of the most shocking in idle Ist of i shark fatali ties which have occurred at Townsville. Mr Tennant, who was a clerk, entered Ross C're< k, near the Penny Ferry, shor ly after 730 in the evening with the indention of swimming from the Ro-ss Island bank of the crock to the city side, about 150 yards distant. lie 1 was within five yards of the city side when he was attacked. A ferry, a rowing boat, was at the time about the same distance from the mooring pontoon, when a woman passenger drew the 1 ferryman’s atbenLicm Mo a man swimming about, five yards downstream. Realising the danger of sharks/’ the ferryman immediately turned the boat toward the swimmer. Before he could reach him, however, there was a splash, and the man was carried 20 yards farther out into the stream. The ferryman rowed as fast as he could to the spot, where with the assistance of a man and woman, who were passengers, he lifted Mr Tennant into the boait. Mr. Tennant, who had had an 'arm bitten off and one leg seriously injured, wa.s able to gasp only, “A shark ha.s got. me,” and died before the arrival of the ambulance. From the nature of Che injuries it seems that he had been attacked twice.