ANDhe attack by a tiger shark Vladimir Popov on the beaches of Egypt has gone around the world. It is not the first time that deaths caused by sharks are in the news, although what happened in 1935 It’s worthy of a movie script. In this story, organized crime, boxing and the aforementioned animal are mixed with a shocking ending.
It all started in Sydney (Australia), where the presence of a 3.5 meter tiger shark managed to save the coogee aquarium. The shark was the attraction of the enclosure and the visits increased. Everything worked perfectly for its owner, bert hobson, who saw how his billing was going up thanks to the imposing animal. No one expected what would happen next.
In little more than a week of its presence in the aquarium, the shark began to vomit. It did not happen on any given day: it happened on April 25, the Anzac Daya date that commemorates the fallen soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Armed Forces. With a large influx of people at the facilities, the shark released something very unusual.
Boxer James Smith.
Shark vomit: a tattooed human arm
It was a human left arm. Also, in it was a tattoo that was still identifiable. The authorities investigated the case and, although at first it was thought that this arm belonged to a shark victim, the experts determined that It had no signs of having been cut by the jawbone of the shark..
I mean, that tattooed left arm had been cut off and thrown to the shark. The police got down to work and began an investigation until they found the victim. They got it thanks to the tattoo. It was him boxer james smithwho was missing from the past april 7 of the same year, 1935. His body had never been found.
The tiger shark at the Coogee Aquarium.
James Smith’s death
Police found fingerprints on the arm vomited by the shark, which was euthanized. The indications of the investigation led the authorities to mark two names in red: Reginald William Lloyd Holmes and Patrick Francis Brady. These criminals engaged in, among other things, drug trafficking with boats and fraud in the banking and insurance sector. james smith had dealings with them.
In fact, the authorities, after the investigation, came to the conclusion that Smith had blackmailed Holmes so they don’t make their practices public. The police, in the first place, determined that Holmes was the murderer, although he confessed that he had been Brady and he related that he had dismembered the body of the boxer.
Three days before the start of the trial, Brady he was found dead from three shots. The crime scene tried to simulate that it was a suicide, although to this day it is unknown who killed both him and the boxer, james smith.
