The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-10
Staying Barred
AS SHARK GIVES
Up HUMAN ARM
Perfect Crime Is Spoiled
by MiIIion-to- 0ne
Chance.
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By United Press
SYDNEY, Australia, July l0-A
shark, captured alive IN the sea and
placed on public exhibition in an
aquarium, disgorged the tattooed
arm OF a man, revealing one muir
der and causing another.
AS a result, Patrick Brady. a
sheep shearer, will go on trial with
in a few weeks charged with having
slain James Smith, an unemployed
Englishman, and dispOsing of his
body by dropping 1t into the ocean.
The states most important wit
ness, Reginald William Holmes, a
wen-knoWn yacht builder, was
found murdered in his automobile
shortly after the shark disclosed the
first murder. A previous attack had
failed to silence him.
Million to- One Chance
The fantastic Crime-perfeCt save
for the milliOn-to-One chance that
interpOsed-was revealed by a fish
erman who hooked a small shark.
AS he was hauling it in, a larger
shark attacked the struggling fish
and itself became entangled in the
net. The fisherman tOWed it to
Sydney and placed it III an aquar-
Jun.
on a public holiday, while crowds
were gazing at the monster, the
shark emitted an arm Police were
summoned and found on it the in
delible portrait Of two Crouching
boxers arrayed in red shorts. The
arm was from the body Of Smith,
who had been missing since April 8.
Patrick Brady was the last man
known TO have seen Smith, police
said. Search Of his cottage proved
that two window sashes. a tin
trunk, a small anchor and a rope
were missing.
They'll Get Me-"
From the evidence police con-
Guided that Smith had been killed
in a drunken brawl, that his body
had been stuffed in the trunk and
sunk and that the arm, which could
not go into the trunk. had been
weighted and cast separately into
the sea
The severed arm still had fTag-
ments of a rope around the wrist.
The fish was caught in April
On May 20, police received re-
ports that a wounded man, with
blood streaming down his face, was
speeding a motor boat about the
harbor in a maze of shipping, ap-
parently a maniac. He was captured
and proved to be Holmes, who had
already been questioned about
Smiths disappearance. He had
proved an alibi and was cleared.
They'll get me, they'll get me, -
Holmes repeated in his delirium.
When Holmes left the hospital. it
was evident he had been attacked
by some one who was fearful of
what he might disclose. He signed
a statement duplicating Brady. but
declined to say who he believed had
shot him before he was found in
the motor boat.
Up Against Blank Wall
Brady. meanwhile, had been held
in jail, so he could not have been
Holmes aSsailant. The police we're
up against a blank wall.
On the morning of June u, when
the inquest was to be held, Holmes
was found dead, sitting in an auto
mobile on a lonely stretch of road
near Sydney bridge. He had three
bullet wounds in his stomach and
could not have committed suicide.
No pistol was found.
A few hours later the inquest was
held. Holmes widow testified that
her husband had told her Brady
killed Smith and dumped the body
in a trunk into the sea. The cOro-
ner sent Brady to stand trial. which
probably will take place early next
month.
Meanwhile the police continued
their investigation of the death Of
Holmes. but thus far they have not
a single definite clew on which to
make an arrest