This was the first well-documented Great White shark attack in South Australia and it happened right here on my street, just a couple hundred metres from my desk in beautiful Brighton Beach. 

Kitty Whyte (nee MaCully) was a popular swimming instructor from the mid-1910s until one horrifically unlucky swim off the Jetty, that played out in front of her two daughters and the entire esplanade of Brighton. 

I've compiled every news article from the attack into one abridged story of Kitty's Great White Shark encounter (and grotesque demise) with the help of Sarah Tinney, who speaks about Kitty as part of her regular tours of Dunluce Castle, where Kitty lived.

-page 6 from ‘The Ladies’ in Observer, Sat 30 Oct 1915 (Adelaide, SA: 1905 - 1931);