Sharks in the Australian aquarium help detect murderers

After being brought into the play area, the shark became irritable, stabbed into the glass door and vomited out the human body.

Today, visitors to Coogee, Sydney, Australia still refer to the famous incident: sharks emitting the arm that occurred 83 years ago at the regional aquarium. To date, this is still one of the most famous murders in Australia.

At the time of its inauguration, Coogee Aquarium was one of the entertainment spots that attracted many visitors.(Photo: Dictionary of Sydney).

In mid-April 1935, Bert Hobson, a local fisherman, caught a shark 4.2 meters long in Coogee waters, according to Atlasobscura. Bert and his son brought the fish to donate to the aquarium.

In the beginning, the shark showed no abnormal signs. But only a few days later, the animal became irritable and had a strange expression. It kept crashing into the glass tank walls before diving to the bottom of the tank. The animal just swims around slowly.

Finally, the shark begins to vomit. The contents of his mouth were flushed with a bird, a mouse, digested food and a human arm wrapped around him.

Immediately, police and experts were called in to examine. The results showed that this arm was not bitten by a shark, had no teeth marks, but was instead cut by a sharp object, like a blade.

The animal's indigestion incident has sent police to the clue to investigate a murder. Police allow local newspaper Sydney's Truth to post a description of the incident and a tattoo on the arm hoping that someone will provide the information.

Sydney's Truth reports on the case.(Photo: Dictionary of Sydney).

Not long after that, a man recognized this tattoo of his brother, amateur boxer James Smith . This person disappeared several weeks before the article was published.

Police quickly went into the search for Smith. The last time this character was seen was at the Cronulla hotel, located on the outskirts of Sydney. Meanwhile, Smith was drinking tea and playing dominoes with his friend Patrick Brady.

The hotel owner said, after that night, Brady disappeared and left the rented room empty. The strange thing is that all beds and mattresses have been replaced. The walls and objects in the room were also cleaned.

At this time, Brady was the number one suspect of the police. A Brady taxi driver after the date of the missing Smith victim provided more information. Brady looked awkward and anxious at the time, demanding to be taken to an apartment north of Sydney, owned by Reginald Lloyd Holmes.

Holmes is a businessman but also a gangster. He hired Brady and Smith to transport illegal drugs and cigarettes. These two people were also instructed to damage, burn or sink ships and boats so that the owners could enjoy insurance. When one of these missions failed, Smith was "questioned".

After vomiting the human arm, the shark was disemboweled to find more evidence.However, there are no more parts in the animal's abdomen.(Photo: Atlas Obscura).

Both Brady and Holmes were questioned, but refused to cooperate. Brady was charged with murder, and Holmes was released because of insufficient evidence. Later, Holmes accused Brady of killing Smith, cutting the victim's body into pieces and throwing it into the sea.

But on the night before the testimony, Holmes was shot dead in the car. This death caused all grounds to accuse Brady of being canceled. Brady's lawyer also argued that the shark only swallowed one arm in the abdomen. An arm is not a complete human body and one can still survive if only this part is lost. The court agreed with that justification and declared Brady acquitted. However, before being released to court, Brady continued to be arrested by police for fraud. In 1965, Brady died and was still not charged with murder.

The Coogee Aquarium is located in Sydney, Australia, and the ribbon was cut in December 1887, according to Randwick. During construction, the aquarium has a capacity of 3,000 people. Children here can participate in other recreational activities such as swinging, horse riding, sailing, skating .

Since 1920, part of the aquarium has been leased. In 1935, this entertainment area was well known throughout Australia after the shark murder of the human arm.

In 1984, the large dome of the aquarium collapsed. Three years later, the building was restored and reopened with a new function: the Beach Palace hotel. In 2014, the building was acquired and became a complex of restaurants and bars called Coogee Pavilion.