Miscellany: Jan. 10, 1927

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Cannibal

When Fisherman Eli Kelly drifted to the beach of Santa Catalina Island (TIME, Jan. 3) with the half-eaten body of his partner, James McKinley, in the stern-sheets of his yawl, a coroner's jury began to investigate. Cannibal Kelly, his clothes hanging in folds on his body (he had shrunk from 210 to 120 pounds), last week gave details. The yawl had been a life boat on board the yacht of Novelist Zane Grey. They had food and drink for 24 hours. On the first day after the storm that crippled...

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