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This may sound unprofessional, but I just lost my job... So please allow me to repost this again.

In 1935, fishermen caught a tiger shark and put it on display in an aquarium in Sydney. Within a week, it became ill and vomited in front of a small crowd, leaving the left hand and forearm of a man bearing a distinctive tattoo floating in the pool. Fingerprints of the hand identified the arm as that of former boxer and petty criminal James "Jim" Smith, who had been missing since 7 April 1935. Examination revealed that the limb had been severed with a knife, which resulted in a murder investigation. Early inquiries implicated a Sydney businessman named Reginald William Lloyd Holmes. Holmes was a fraudster and smuggler who also managed a successful family boat-building business. Holmes had employed Smith several times to work insurance scams. The pair then soon began engaging in criminal activity with Patrick Francis Brady, an ex-serviceman and convicted forger. Smith was last seen drinking and playing cards with Patrick Francis Brady at the Cecil Hotel in the southern Sydney suburb of Cronulla on 7 April 1935 after telling his wife he was going fishing. Brady had rented a small cottage in Taloombi Street, Cronulla at the time Smith became missing. Police alleged that Smith was murdered at this cottage. Port Hacking and Gunnamatta Bay were searched by the Navy and the Air Force, but the rest of Smith's body was never found. Brady was arrested on 16 May and charged with the murder of Smith. Initially, Holmes denied any association with Brady but four days later, on 20 May 1935, the businessman went into his boatshed and attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head with a .32 calibre pistol. However, the bullet instead flattened against the bone of his forehead and he was merely stunned. Holmes eventually cooperated with the police stating that Brady had killed Smith, dismembered his body and stowed it into a trunk that he had then thrown into Gunnamatta Bay.