Murder Will Out.
The Chinese Cabinet at Whitehall Yard, London, is replete with objects of interest. Among the naval curios is the tin box found in the body of a shark. A ship bound for the West Indies fell in with and chased a suspicious-looking craft having the appearance of a slaver. During the pursuit something was thrown overboard from the chased vessel, which, being captured, was taken into Port Royal to be ajudicated upon as a slaver. The ship's papers were not forthcoming, and the vessel was in a fair way to escape condemnation, when a ship came into port which had caught a shark, in the stomach of which voracious monster was a tin box containing the missing papers, and these clearly showed that the captured craft was engaged in the slave trade.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2046, 11 May 1893, Page 50
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135Murder Will Out. Otago Witness, Issue 2046, 11 May 1893, Page 50
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