LEON VALLEY, Texas (AP) — Two men have confessed to snatching a small shark from a Texas aquarium’s interactive touch tank then whisking it away, wrapping in a blanket and concealing in a baby stroller, police say.
Miss Helen, the 16-inch-long (40-centimeter-long) gray horn shark, was returned to the San Antonio Aquarium on Monday night, two days after the heist was captured on surveillance video. “Sharknapping: Unsuccessful!” the aquarium posted on Facebook afterward.
The surveillance footage shows a man plucking the shark from the tank and carrying it away, off camera, still dripping water. Another man is then seen depositing a blanket-wrapped item into a stroller and walking off, accompanied by the first man and a woman carrying a child.
Police said the men put the shark into a bucket before placing it into the stroller. The shark was recovered Monday night from a home filled with fish tanks and other marine life, said Leon Valley Police Chief Joseph Salvaggio.
Salvaggio said the men confessed to the shark snatching, and investigators planned to talk with the woman Tuesday. Salvaggio told San Antonio TV station KSAT that one of the men was knowledgeable about marine life and likely went to the aquarium specifically for that shark.
“The individual obviously had some knowledge on how to deal with these types of animals, we said that from the very beginning, otherwise why take it? And when we got into the garage and into the house, it looked like almost a mock-up of (the aquarium),” he said.
Authorities are speaking with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to determine whether any federal charges can be filed, Salvaggio said.
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Fifteen volumes comprising of the Works of Cowper by Robert Southey; a rare set to find complete as the publisher, Baldwin & Cradock, went bankrupt upon completion of the printing. Volumes 1 to 3 - The Life of Cowper. Volumes 4 to 7, Letter of Cowper. Volumes 8 to 10 - Poems. Volumes 11 to 14 - Translations of Homer. Volume 15 - More letters and prose works (Curry, Southey).
William Cowper (1731 –1800) was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him "the best modern poet", whilst William Wordsworth particularly admired his poem Yardley-Oak.
Each measures approx. 17 x 11 x 2.5 cm. Moroccan leather spines and board corners. Spine with five lightly raised bands, some gilt and title and volume in gilt on Moroccan overlays. Marbled papers cover the boards. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Illustrated. 15 volumes.
See pictures. A little shelf wear with some rubbing at edges, corners and joints. Spines slightly darkened. Ex libris on pastedown of each volume. Volume one has some pencil bookseller marks on the blank unpaginated front endpapers. The plates (frontis, title and portraits) are foxed and some have ghosted onto the facing pages. Very occasional bumped/dog eared page corner right at corner. No annotations. No tears.