1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hi, and welcome 2 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:22,119 Speaker 1: back to Hooded What Now, the history podcast with me 3 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: Katie Charlwood, your host, lover of sea wenches and reader 4 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: of books. Ah. Here we are. We are officially in 5 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: the fest of season. Yes, yes, yes, yes yes. My 6 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: tree has been up for weeks because it's twenty twenty 7 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 1: and time is an illusion this year, so I thought, 8 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: let's get into this season. The season of Christmas now 9 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: is it has become? And what gets you when the 10 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: Christmas spirit more than a mysterious murder or two in 11 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: Australia involving vintage villain, surprising schemes and of course a 12 00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:05,279 Speaker 1: shark or two. Let's dive in, dive dive in. No oh, okay, okay, 13 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: So yeah, today we're gonna talk about the shark arm 14 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: murder of nineteen thirty five. Dun, dun, dun. Let's get 15 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 1: right into it. I may my mispronounced names, by the way, 16 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: I should probably mention that, but like you know me, 17 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: at this point, I'm probably gonna mispronounce a bunch of stuff. 18 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: It's okay. Tweet me at hooded What Night Pod. You 19 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: can also email me at hooded what Now pod at 20 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,479 Speaker 1: gmail dot com and most on Instagram. So yeah, and TikTok, 21 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: I'm everywhere. Sorry. Okay, back back to It's the seventeenth 22 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: of April nineteen thirty five and a fisherman is off 23 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: the coast of Cookie Beach in Sydney, Australia and he 24 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: manages to hook the small shark, which is nice but 25 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 1: then should have anarky cartoon or that that's scene in 26 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: the Phantom Menace was always a big girl fish. A 27 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: four foot tiger shark swallows the smaller shark. Any thinks one, obviously, 28 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: so he decides to take the larger shark, which is 29 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 1: uneaten and decidedly more alive, to the Cookie Aquarium Baths 30 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: because you think it'll be a cool attraction for the 31 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: following and Zach Day weekend. Now, the Cookie Aquarium Baths 32 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: it could basically hold I think somewhere between twelve hundred 33 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,799 Speaker 1: and fourteen hundred people and it'd sort of fallen out 34 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: of fashion. But they thought this will be a really 35 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: good attraction. It'll bring people in. So Anzac Day is 36 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: a day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand and 37 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: it commemorates all those who died in wars and conflicts 38 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: and peacekeeping operations. So at this point mainly it was 39 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: for people who had passed in things like World War One, 40 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: more so AnyWho. At this time, sharks were basically public 41 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: enemy number one, kind of like the opposite of jaws. Now, 42 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: I just imagine an old time he wanted poster and like, 43 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: have you seen the shark? If so, run away, swim away, 44 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: get away, avoid sharks and the jets. I'm sorry, I'm 45 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 1: not sorry. So in February March of that year, three 46 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: men had already been attacked slash killed, slash chomped by 47 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: sharks like you know. And they even had like bounty 48 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 1: hunters to Red Sydney of the demons of the sea. 49 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: So the Cookie aquarium baths. They were like, okay, this 50 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: real life Rubie Roundhouse killer of men would be just 51 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: the spectacle the crows would want to see. And they did. 52 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: They packed the place out. So the tiger shark do 53 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: do do do do? Is loving at large, swimming about 54 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: in his swimming about in his pool, reveling no doubt 55 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: in his new found fame. He gets the run of 56 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: the pool. He's eating rather voraciously up until the twenty 57 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: fifth of April, and shit starts to get weird. On 58 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: Anzac Day, when the places fully packed to the brim, 59 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: the shark is like moving slowly banging into the side 60 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: of the pool. It's being fairly disorientated, you know. And 61 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: while a huge group of spectators watch, the shark starts 62 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: to vomit up this dark, sort of billious fluid. It's 63 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 1: just like this, and it's like it chucks up a 64 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: rat and a bird. And then, to the complete shock 65 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: and horror of the audience, a human arm fingers two elbow. 66 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: I believe initially they think, oh, well, this is probably 67 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: just an accident, another tragic death of a poor young 68 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 1: man who thought swimming in shark infested waters was a 69 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: tip top idea. Alas, this was not the case. Upon 70 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: closer inspection, it was clear that the arm was severed 71 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: with a sharp implement of some kind, but too quickly 72 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 1: to being a surgical procedure, so it was definitely hacked 73 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: son or chopped off. It was not professionally done. Well, 74 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: that's arguable. 75 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 2: With how like sharks have a pretty acidic stomach, regarding 76 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 2: how acidic the shark's gas produces are, they were able 77 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 2: to determine that the arm had been consumed between eight 78 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 2: to eighteen days. So what they think happened is that 79 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 2: the smaller shark had consumed the arm before the bigger 80 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 2: shark chopped on it, so effectively, this was just before 81 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 2: at the latest, this would be just before the shark 82 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 2: was caught, so clearly this is a murder. Luckily, the 83 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 2: arm had a pretty distinctive tattoo of two boxer sparring 84 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 2: on the forearm. This was so lucky in fact, that 85 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 2: after seeing a report in a Sydney newspaper, I think 86 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 2: it was The Sydney Sydney Truth. Yes, after seeing a 87 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 2: report in it, the police get a phone call from 88 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 2: Edwin Smith who was like, yeah, my brother James Smith. 89 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: And his friends calling. Jim has been missing for a 90 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: couple of weeks and that does seem to be his arm. Again, 91 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: the arm was so well preserved they were actually able 92 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: to get fingerprints from it, so the police were able 93 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: to confirm that the arm had in fact previously belonged 94 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: to one Jim Smith. Now let me tell you to Jim. 95 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: Jim was a bankrupt builder, xboxer, X bookie and a 96 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: small time criminal with a record of minor convictions. He 97 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: wasn't quite in the underworld, but he wasn't exactly. Yeah, 98 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 1: he wasn't exactly. He wasn't quite in the underworld. He 99 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: wasn't exactly rubbing shoulders with the criminal elite. He was 100 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: more say underworld adjacent as far as the complice were concerned, 101 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: and he was involved in illegal gambling rings and kind 102 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: of stuff like that was happening at the time. So 103 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: the police start digging and they discovered that Jim Smith 104 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: had last been seen with his longtime buddy and expert 105 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: forger Patrick Brady. Now, Brady and Smith had been seen 106 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: drinking at the Cessa hotel in Cronula Crnulla, I'm going 107 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: to go with Cronulla and Crnula before returning to a 108 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: cottage on Gonnamatta Bay that Brady had been renting. I 109 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 1: hope these names are pronounced correctly anyway. The next morning, 110 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: Patrick Brady gets a taxi Cronulla Cabby if you will, 111 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: who takes him all the way to North Sydney and 112 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: drops him right outside the door of Cough businessman Reginald 113 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: Lloyd Holmes. The Cabby said that Brady was like, oh, disheveled, 114 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: and acting weird and shaky and like as if someone 115 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: was following him. And he also would not take his 116 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: hand out of his pocket. He said it was like 117 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: he was holding something in it in this like really 118 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: deep pocket. Suspicious. Don't be suspicious. He's been suspicious. He's 119 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: been suspicious. Here's being in suspicious. Okay. So Reginald Lloyd Holmes, 120 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: a seemingly respectable entrepreneur, was nothing of the sort. He 121 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: was in charge of a smuggling ring using speedboats in 122 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: the like that were actually built in Home's own boat 123 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 1: building business. What is this good to do with the 124 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: severed army, ask Well, turns out our good pal Gym 125 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: was a seasonal employee of mister Reginald Lloyd Homes, often 126 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: driving the speedboats during the smuggling jobs. Okay, so this 127 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: is nineteen thirty five, so this is just you're gonna remember. 128 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: We're in the past. Okay. So what they would do 129 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: is they would have packages and the packages would float 130 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 1: on top of the water. They dump them out, they'd 131 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: float on top of the water, and Smith would go 132 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,959 Speaker 1: driving around in the speedboat and start picking up the packages. 133 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: That's it. That's as complicated as it was. And then 134 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: after you know they've been doing this bit for a while, 135 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 1: they start a scheme and they bring Patrick Brady into 136 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 1: the fold. They need him because again he's an expert forger. 137 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 1: So I think it was some sort of insurance scam 138 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: they were trying to flog. And yeah, so allegedly Smith 139 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: and Holmes have a falling out over a failed insurance scam. 140 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: There may have been some blackmail on Smith's part involved, 141 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: and the police, if nothing else, are highly suspicious. So 142 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: Brady and Holmes are taken in for questioning. And firstly, 143 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 1: everything they have is circumstantial. They don't have enough evidence. 144 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: And secondly, Holmes is all Brady who new telegram? Who 145 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: is So weeks go by, and just when the case 146 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: hits an apparent dead end, mister Reginald Lloyd ho comes 147 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: crashing through it on a speedboat. On the twentieth of 148 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 1: May nineteen thirty five. Homes speeds out of his boat 149 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: jen into the harbor on one of his very fast, 150 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: very special speedboats. He should sit and see. So he's 151 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: there out in the bay. He pulls out a pistol 152 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: and he attempts to die by suicide, and this doesn't 153 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 1: quite work, so he shoots himself in the head, plummets 154 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: into the water, but he's not dead and fair enoughs 155 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: he's gone full resputing here. So he falls into the 156 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: water and in a crazy random happen stands a rope 157 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 1: from the boat catches around his wrist and it prevents 158 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: him from drowning and from landing in the water. It 159 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: revives him. It shocks him and revives him, and he 160 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: manages to scramble back on board the boat. And then 161 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: I don't know, like the water Sea Police, maybe it's 162 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: the regular police who have a boat. I'm assuming they 163 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: have boat with something anyway, Coastguard maybe Anyway, they were 164 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 1: basically alerted to this event and they take chase. So 165 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 1: they chase this man for four hours four hours, and 166 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: they go out past Circular Key, saw him making it 167 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: through all the midmorning ferry traffic. I mean, it's not 168 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: a quiet bay. How they go, They go down right 169 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: down Sydney Harbor and finally, when he's just a rind 170 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 1: bit where the Sydney Heads are, he gives up. He 171 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: just stops and he's like, all right, I give myself up. 172 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 1: Let's let's do this. And so my chum's the plot Thickens. 173 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: Holmes ends up singing like a damn canary. He's got names, 174 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 1: he's got places, he's got dates, and he was ready 175 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: to squawk on Brady. So Holmes claims that Brady had 176 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: killed Smith and dismembered him, and he gave him a 177 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: quote unquote Sydney send off, and effectively this is putting 178 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: body in a trunk and then dumping it into goot 179 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: Amana Bay. He then claimed that Patrick Brady showed up 180 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: at his house and showed him Jim's very very distinct 181 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: tattooed arm as proof that he had dismembered him and 182 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:09,439 Speaker 1: chucked him in and then threatened him, demanding five hundred 183 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: pounds five hundred pounds to keep quiet about the whole 184 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: affair now before the official inquest into Jim Smith's death 185 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: takes place, the day before, Reggie good oldready there he 186 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: goes and withdraws five hundred pounds. Oh yeah. 187 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 3: So as he's given up and he's squawking on Brady, 188 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 3: he's like, yeah, as he's as he's squawking on Brady, 189 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,439 Speaker 3: he's like when he is caught and he gives himself 190 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 3: up to the police on the boat, he says something 191 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 3: along that I don't know who did it, but if 192 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 3: you give me. 193 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: A day, I'll go get the bastard. I'm paraphrasing. He 194 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: basically said, I don't know who did it, but if 195 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: you want AMMI go deal with him AnyWho. The day 196 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: before the inquest, Reggie withdraws five hundred pounds, which is 197 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 1: in today's money is around thirty six thousand pounds forty 198 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 1: thousand euro sixty five thousand Australian dollar That so, in 199 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: today's money, I'm going to go around the world. Here, 200 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to do the ones that I know, okay. 201 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: So five hundred pounds in nineteen thirty five would have 202 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: been thirty six thousand pounds today forty thousand euro, sixty 203 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: five thousand Australian dollars and forty eight thousand American dollars. Okay, 204 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: So he takes out the five hundred and he tells 205 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 1: his wife later that evening that he has to meet someone, 206 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: and off he goes. So at one twenty am, mere 207 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: hours before the inquest, on the twelfth of June, holmes 208 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: car was found at the deserted docks at Dollars Point, 209 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: slumped over the steering wheel, slumped over the steering wheel 210 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 1: of his car. Was the body of mister Reginald Lloyd Holmes, 211 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 1: so PARKD and Hixon Road under the Harbor Bridge. There 212 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: he lay with three bullet wounds in his chest. Some 213 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 1: people theorized that this was an elaborate suicide, with Holmes 214 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: taking hit on himself. But yeah, it's it's more likely 215 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: that the trial only lasts two days because it doesn't 216 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: have any relevant witnesses and the case against Patrick Brady 217 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: is so circumstantial that the case just crumbles. He gets 218 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: to stroll out of court, probably doing whatever dance was 219 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: popular at the time. I'm assuming what happened between the 220 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: Charleston and the jive the American swing? Was it swing anyway? 221 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: One of the things they said, one of the things 222 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: they said was like, we can't pray this was a 223 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: murder because we only have the arm. We don't have 224 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 1: the rest of the body. So how do we know 225 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 1: he's actually dead, not just out there chilling out with 226 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: one arm. So, I mean, nineteen thirty five, I know 227 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: amputations happened, but it wasn't a surgical one. I feel 228 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: like it's fine, No, it's fine, it's sine And after this. 229 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: After this, more information comes out and my chums, how 230 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: the plot thickens. As it turns out our dear friend 231 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: Jimmy Smith was a police informant, which means, you know, 232 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 1: the quote unquote rat was caught and dealt with snitches 233 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: get stitches or more like snitches get hacked up and 234 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: served to the sharks. But whatever, I just found it 235 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: strange if he's like an official informant and he's a 236 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: confidential informant or whatever, and no police officer was like, oh, 237 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: I know him. That can't be. That's that guy who 238 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: gives in FO to me. And wait, wasn't that guy 239 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: dubbing everybody in all right? There was also a possibility 240 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: of a gang war going on. Yeah, another option is 241 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: that he was actually killed as a result of a 242 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: there was a gang war going on and he was 243 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: just you know, ratting on the wrong guys. You know. 244 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 1: But there we go. And that is the shark arm 245 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: murder of nineteen thirty five. So too long didn't listen, TLDL, 246 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: Too long didn't listen. Small shark eats arm, Big shark 247 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: eats little shark. Big shark goes on display. Big shark 248 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: gergitate's arm conveniently recognizable, roaming arm, recognized by criminal's brother, 249 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: tales of intriguancieux, attempted suicide, speak boat, chase by suspect, capture, confession, 250 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: more murder case thrown out because one armed does not 251 00:16:51,480 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: a corpse make Oh. So I am now getting ready 252 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: for the rest of the festive season. We are mainly decorated, 253 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: so I'm gonna write my Christmas cards I think soon 254 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: and get them done. So but yeah, that's a that's 255 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 1: a fun one for all of us. But is everyone 256 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 1: getting into the festive spirit? If you have anything you 257 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,439 Speaker 1: want to say to me, I'm on Twitter, I'm on 258 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: I'm on Twitter, Instagram, tektok, and I have an email 259 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: at twitted, whatnopod at gmail dot com. So if anything, 260 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: if I have if you want to send me phonetics, 261 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: if I mispronounced, then go ahead. It's all there. Anything 262 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: you want to say, you can tweet me, you can 263 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: instagram me. Whatever I think my day I was a 264 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: open if they're not sorry. I also do historical hot 265 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:52,919 Speaker 1: takes in TikTok because it's fun and I have to 266 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 1: actually plum what I'm going to cook for Christmas because 267 00:17:55,359 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: I don't know yet. And I have realized that I 268 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:06,440 Speaker 1: have far too many Christmas stuffies like I have so many, 269 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: I've started collecting Christmas plushes and honestly, I'm not even 270 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: mad about it. Am I the only one who has 271 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: a Christmas wardrobe? Because I have a Christmas wardrobe? So 272 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: that's everything? And you can always message mey, tweet me 273 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:32,120 Speaker 1: all that jazz. If there's anything you really really want 274 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: me to cover, give me an email. Should be an email, 275 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:38,919 Speaker 1: let me let me know anything I any. I love people, 276 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: places and things from ancient times to the relatively modern day, 277 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: and let's talk about it. Adios a revoir of waita 278 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 1: Zen my friends, See you next time.