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"A Brig's Officers Believed to Have Been Murdered at Sea.", New York Times, Wednesday, February 26, 1873, page 2, citing the Boston Post of February 24, 1873. Retrieved on June 19, 2008.
First sentence: "It is now believed that the fine brig Mary Celeste, of about 236 tons, commanded by Capt. Benjamin Briggs, of Marion, Mass., was seized by pirates in the latter part of November, and that, after murdering the Captain, his wife, child, and officers, the vessel was abandoned near the Western Islands, where the miscreants are supposed to have landed."
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