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Show Presence of Human Headgear (n Stom-ache Stom-ache of Shark Something cf a Puzzle to Sailo's. During the past few months several sev-eral sharks have been captured at various points along the New South Wales coast, which on being opened have been found to contain human remains. re-mains. Most cases have been Identified Identi-fied as those of unfortunate fishermen fisher-men or bathers who bad previously disappeared - A similar case came to light the other day, when the crew of the tugboat Jumbuck captured an enormous shark off Mainly beach, Sydney. Syd-ney. The party had been schnapper fishing, and were greatly annoyed by the avidity with which their fish were eaten off the hook by a shark as they were being hauled Into the boat. Turning their attention, then, from the schnapper to bicger game, the tugboat crew baited a book for the shark, and. on finally securing him and pulling him on board, got astonishing as-tonishing results from the post- mortem examination they made. Besides Be-sides a quantity of feathers and ribs of beef, the contents of the shark's Interior was found to include a felt hat and a piece of cloth. Finding a man's hat in such a gruesome place, the tugboat's crew searched for anything any-thing resembling human remains, but could find nothing, and the mystery of where the shark got the hat was not solved by anything they were able to discover. There were only a number num-ber of small bone3. The feathers, apparently, ap-parently, once belonged to sea birds that the shark had snapped up as tbey rested on the surface of the wa'.er The presence of ribs of cirluln was accounted for by the probability of the snark having picked It up as It was thrown overboard by a vessel entering the Heads. The sbprk was of the grey nurse variety, and from nose to tail measured II tt. 6 In., W Ing 18 In. across the tee.d. It displayed dis-played extraordinary vitality eveu for a shark, and put up a hard Ibt for the whole time, and It require' tne united efforts of nine of the cr-'w to pull him out of the wt-ter on to the deck of the tugboat |