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SEA SERPENT ISCAUGHT AT EASTLaver Alow* W«*igfi«*Tl Nearly Tow-— ^ j Suimuer PToMem SettledThis Year. •Portland. Me., June 25.—A Ml monster. weighing 15.000 pounds, forty-five feet 1n length, and. In appearance, much Tike the fabled sea serpent, was caught by two fishermen. Albert Richardson and a companion. five miles off Orr'a Island, Casco Bay. The creature made desperate effort to egcape from tbe! meshes of a big mackerel net., which finally wound Itself so tightly about him that the gills were tied flat to the body and the big fish was drown-; ed. He stove a rail off one motorboat and nearly capaised the -other.The oldest fishermen have never,; seen anything like the monster. head whs a shark's without teeth, his body serpentine, with a shiny back fin. his tall like a whale's,four feet long and six feet broad.It took the thro fishermen's big mo-1 tor boats thjree hours to tow the carcass ashore. The fish was cnt up and his liver, weighing 1,700 pound*, was dried out for oil.
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Harrisonburg Evening News
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Thu, Jun 25, 1908
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