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Wild tales of the Lake Erie and Loch Nessa monsters and of sighting of serpents in the sea are rivaled now by an “eye wit ness’ account of @ Strange ace quatic giant frisking in the Ohio river along Steubenville's water front. Police, at first alarmed over the reports and figuring on a fishing expedition in an effort to land the water reptile, now are a little dubious about it all but Cruiserman Fred Walker, credited with being the “Frank Isack of the force has been as signed to investigate. The story started when an ex cited youth rushed into city hall headquarters and insisted he had seen an 18 foot monster, maybe an alligator, and more than that had watched it cavort ing in the water for some mmin utes between the Ft. Steuben and Panhandle railroad bridge. Patrolmen Walker and Wal ter Durbin rushed him back to the scene in a cruiser, but in the hurry overlooked the essential point of finding out the youth's name. They were half willing to believe his story, though, for during the time they patrolled the river bank the keen eyed Durbin spied what he asserts Was a “broad snouted, large toothed, long-tailed whopper sunning itself about 30 feet from the West Virginia shore.” Captain Joseph Green, lock master at U.S. Dam No. 10 and a veteran of more than 40 years on the river, heard the reports about the serpent, too, but after considered Judgment his verdict was: “Those fellows were just see ing double, I'm the only alliga tor around here and is on land. This river water is too rotten for anything to live In even if it was fitted out with a leather stomach,
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Steubenville Herald Star
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Thu, Jul 30, 1936
Page 10
Full Page
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