New York Times; ngày 26 tháng 2 năm 1873; pg. 2; "A Brig's Officers Believed to Have Been Murdered at Sea."
Boston Post, ngày 24 tháng 2 năm 1873. "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..."
