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1922 - Crimes Peculiar to the Sea.

The sea has its own peculiar crimes - coopering, barratry, piracy, blackbird and, better known, perhaps, mutiny. It has its own queer unsolved crimes as the case of the Marie Celeste. But the sea today is a more law-abiding place than it used to be. The souvenir hunteres are the real sea criminals of modern times. There are accounts in the office of a well-known firm of passenger-carrying ships where the total losses of crockery, linen and plate in a single ship on a single trip were set out. The totals per voyaged reaced such fingers as $7,300, $6,100 and $4,500. Now, crockery, we will admit, can be an accidental loss. But linen to the value of $4,500 does not get blown overboard between New York and Southampton. Nor does electric plate to the value of $1,000 slip down the sink grating.

St Albans Daily Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
September 14, 1922

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