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men. Capt. Briggs protested against this treat¬ 
ment. He claimed to be a peaceful trader. He 
said he had tried to run away from the Sparrow 
because he thought she herself was a pirate. The 
ship was searched. No incriminating goods, 
papers or other evidence could be found. So 
certain, however, was Capt. Roberts that he had 
made no mistake that he proceeded to put Briggs 
in irons, and a prize crew brought the Nancy to 
Kingston in the wake of the warship. Proceed¬ 
ings were taken to convict Briggs of piracy and 
to condemn his vessel. 
And then came a stumbling block. Everybody 
seemed satisfied that Briggs was the man; but 
opinions are seldom satisfactory evidence. In a 
word, legal evidence was lacking. All tracks, if 
there were any, had been covered. It looked, in 
short, as if the case against Briggs were about 
to fall, and that he would soon sail away in his 
ship, a free man. 
Now a thing happened which seems almost beyond 
belief. It was one possibility in millions. Indeed, 
the chances against its happening were so great 
that a man walking quietly along a country road 
would seem to be running much more risk of 
sudden death from an unsuspected source. 
Briggs was on the very point of being acquitted 
when another English warship, the Abergavenny, 
entered the harbor. The trial was on every¬ 
body’s lips, and the captain of this latter ship 
immediately heard of it. He lost no time in 
going to the court, and in putting in the hands 
of the prosecuting officer a small bundle of 
papers considerably the worse for wear, but still 
sufficiently legible. 'The statement of this cap¬ 
tain—whose name I have forgotten—was that on 
the previous day some of his sailors had been 
fishing and had caught a shark. They cut the 
body of the shark open to get its oils, and in 
the stomach they found this bundle of papers. 
On examining, these papers proved to be some 
records of the Nancy. 
It seems that when Briggs saw he must be 
overtaken by the Sparrow, he threw overboard 
these incriminating papers. The shark had evi¬ 
dently been following the ship and swallowed 
the papers at a gulp. The Avergavenny arrived 
at Kingston in time to put them in evidence. 
They proved sufficient. On the strength of them, 
Briggs and his crew were convicted and hanged. 
Such is the strange story of the Shark Papers, 
which, it now seems, only came through the flood 
to meet their destruction by fire.—Rochefort Cal¬ 
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