Date11-Oct-1916
TypeProvoked
CountryUSA
LocationSewell’s Point, near Palm Beach
ActivityFishing, attempted to take a netted shark
InjuryFATAL, leg severely bitten, surgically amputated PROVOKED INCIDENT
VictimJ.L. Hanscomb, Male
SourceV.M. Coppleson (1958), p.251; R.F. Hutton; NY Times, 10/12/1916, p.8
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