The shark went crazy in an aquarium pond.
In Australia, at the Coogee Aquarium and Swimming Bath in Sydney, the main news was a tiger shark in 1935, when he threw up a human left arm in a crowd watching. days before the event, Bert Hobson, Carlo’s brother, The aquarium owner was fishing three kilometers from Coogee Beach in Sydney when he accidentally caught a tiger shark. Hobson took the four-meter animal into his brother’s aquarium.
At that time, the businesses in the area were in crisis. The year before, Coogee Pier, with its 1,400-seat theater and ballroom, had been demolished. Coogee Beach stopped attracting people and so the Hobson brothers thought bringing a shark would bring them an income. The idea, of course, wasn’t bad. Load up the entrance to see the terrifying shark.
A week later, on April 25, 1935, Bert Hobson announced the grand appearance of the tiger shark in an aquarium filled with people excited to witness the event. After a few minutes and in the middle of the show, the shark began to make sudden movements, throwing itself against the glass of the tank and swimming in circles faster and faster.
The dramatic story took place in a pond in an aquarium in Sydney, Australia.
Suddenly, amidst a thick foam that visitors have described as reddish and black, the shark vomited a bird, followed by a mouse and finally a human left armwhich could be detected up to the point when the foam dispersed into the water. The arm had a peculiar tattoo of two boxers in a ring and a rope tied around the wrist. However, he was free from shark bite marks.
The situation was clear. His arm had no bites and was whole. For which he had not been a victim of the shark, as was assumed, but had been cut by someone and thrown overboard. It wasn’t a shark attack but a mysterious crime.
The aquarium was immediately evacuated and closed indefinitely, while an investigation was carried out to explain that event. A few days later and after posting a photo of the tattoo, The police received a call from the brother of James Smith, a boxing enthusiast bookmaker.thief, police informant missing for several weeks and owner of the arm that was inside the shark.
The real tiger shark, in an image from 1935.
Investigating Smith’s latest movements, police arrested Patrick Brady, the man James spent the last day of his life with, framing him for his murder. However, Brady spotted Reginald Holmes, with whom Smith was working to smuggle drugs from passing boats, for questioning by police. After this, Holmes took one of their speedboats and went in pursuit with the police, where he shot himself in the head and managed to survive. When he was taken to the hospital and checkedhe said he was attacked at home and mistook the police for thieves, which is why he tried to escape.
James Smith, the victim, and Reginald Holmes, who was found dead.
One night before the trial, Holmes was found dead and with three shots in the body, sparking speculation that he himself had hired a hitman and killed himself. Due to the absence of the “star” witness, the case was dismissed shortly after, because Brady’s lawyer said that one arm cannot prove that a murder has been committed. In this way Brady was released without conviction and James Smith’s body was never found.
Coogee Beach, Australia, in a photo of the time.
Patrick Brady died in 1965 at the age of 76 and has always denied everything.
Source: Clarin
