Cindy Prina/Getty ImagesĪt first, Oscar's gift seemed a bit creepy. He sits on their bed until the event happens. Oscar (not shown) has an uncanny knack for knowing when residents at a nursing home in Rhode Island are going to die. lab to see if the hairs could be tested for DNA – something not previously done with animals. But forensic scientists couldn't determine which cat the hairs came from. If they belonged to Snowball, that would provide a clear link to Beamish. Close examination of the jacket uncovered 27 white cat hairs inside the lining. And some of Beamish's friends said they thought he owned such a coat. īut police did find a leather jacket near the crime scene splattered with Duguay's blood. The only problem? The RCMP had no evidence. Beamish became the prime suspect in her murder. During this time, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) found the body of Beamish's estranged common-law wife, Shirley Duguay, in a shallow grave. In 1994, their son, Douglas Beamish, was living with them after being paroled from prison. Snowball was owned by a Canadian couple living on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Flinders even wrote a long essay on Trim's many virtues - for instance he could do many tricks, such as jumping over a seaman's clasped hands.Īn all-white kitty like this one, called Snowball, unwittingly helped pinpoint a murderer. Over the next few years, Trim accompanied Flinders several more times as he circumnavigated the Australian continent. įlinders and his crew quickly fell in love with Trim, impressed with his energy, exceptional balance, intelligence and unusual indifference to getting wet. One of them was Trim, a jet-black feline with a white star on his chest and four white paws. During his latter trip, a cat on the ship gave birth to a litter of kittens. Convinced Australia was a continent, he sailed there in 1790 and again in 1797. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, people believed Australia was a collection of islands.
An epitaph written by Flinders called Trim "The best and most illustrious of his race/The most affectionate of friends/faithful of servants/and best of creatures." Addicted/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Ī statue of Trim, Matthew Flinders' cat, sits on a window ledge in the Mitchell wing of the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. Voilà – Chester was now the co-author of a prestigious physics paper.
The scientist came up with "F.D.C." from " Felix Domesticus, Chester" and chose the surname "Willard" because that was the name of Chester's dad. But Chester needed a more formal and complete name, so Hetherington dubbed him F.D.C. So, Hetherington decided his Siamese cat, Chester, would become his co-author. If an article used plural words such as "we," it had to have two or more people listed as the authors.Īs it was 1975, this was quite problematic changing all of those "we's" to "I's" via typewriter would be a Herculean task. Hetherington planned to submit it to Physical Review Letters for publication, but that periodical had strict rules regarding authorship. He had just finished typing a physics paper (that would later become quite influential) when a colleague noted he had used the royal "we" throughout the article.
Michigan State professor Jack Hetherington was in a bind. A Siamese like this one co-authored a physics paper.
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