[ London Times ]
This newspaper, most correctly known simply as The Times, began publication in 1785 and continues to this day.
The June 9, 1806 edition of The Times carried the following brief notice of a Newfoundland discovering a submerged body:
Saturday, at the Marlborough-street Office, Mary Johnson was charged with conducting a private distillery, in Gloucester-place, New Road. It appeared that the officers of the Excise repaired to the defendant by information of her transactions. On entering the yard, one of them was seized by a Newfoundland dog, and was much injured by him. They searched the house and found a still at work, sufficient to contain 100 gallons of spirits and also 700 gallons of molasses and besides a quantity of low wine, and about 100 gallons of spirits, the whole of which were seized with the still. The defendant was committed to Tothill Fields Bridewell for six months.
