Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their favorite sport. Since a shark digests an Australian in a few days, it was major Commonwealth news when a huge tiger shark, thrashing around under the eyes of fascinated bathers in an aquarium near Coogee Beach, suddenly spewed up the contents of its stomach including an undigested human arm tattooed with two boxers wearing red shorts...
Promptly recognized as the arm of a locally popular barfly named James Smith who had disappeared two weeks before, the undigested arm put Australian sleuths on their mettle. By last week they had reconstructed the "Shark Murder" about as follows: A drug-smuggling gang hired Smith to scuttle a yacht they had insured for $42,500 with Lloyd's. When Scuttler Smith later tried to blackmail the gang with threats of exposing them to Lloyd's, the gang had him dismembered and fed piece by piece to sharks in Sydney Harbor. Smith's tattooed arm was swallowed...
...advised, and Pat Brady set his Irish jaw. Last week before the Commonwealth's High Court Brady's counsel cited a basic maxim of Anglo-Saxon law, argued: "There can be no inquest, much less a trial for murder, without a corpus delicti and one tattooed human arm disgorged by a shark is not a body...
Accepting this plea, the Court freed Pat, left Australia's great "Shark Murder" stymied. "For all they can prove," declared Pat's friends, "James Smith may still be alive. What if his arm was cut off and thrown to a shark? That doesn't show he's dead...
...become ill. I knew no Italian and no one there was likely to know any English. And no one there knew me. Folded in my handkerchief I had a very tiny bottle of smelling salts, in case I might have again what I had the previous night. Over my arm I draped the rosaries and in my fingers I held the little objects...