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Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Friday, January 30, 2009 at 04:32:17 :

The Marin Journal
Thursday, July 17, 1913
Page 7

Body Found on Dillon’s Beach

A human heart was washed up on the sands of Dillon’s beach on Thursday, and there are only vague and far fetched theories as to how the gruesome find ever got into the sea.

Coroner Sawyer was notified, and will investigate. Some hearing the story say that the thing found was doubtless the heart of a hog, escaped from some coast abattoir, but Dr. Newton of St. Helena, an accomplished physician, summering at Dillon’s, declared unequivocally that the lump of flesh in question had been part of a human body.

Five days ago, a son of Dr. Hill of Sebastopol was drowned near Dillon’s, and his body was not recovered from the sea. One story is that the sharks that infest this vicinity devoured this body, and that the heart incidentally escaped the jaws of the fish. Others think that some man was murdered and dismembered on some ship or boat and thrown overboard.

The heart was in a good state of preservation, and had been in the water only a few days. All efforts towards solving the mystery are now directed towards endeavor to find other traces of a human body.