Show A SEA SERPENT CAPTURED STAMFOHD CONK August 17All this week a party of men have been hunting for a sea serpent in the Narabou river The stream in question runs down from among the hills two miles back of tile town That a sea serpent r a reptile believed to i be that famous monter was seen last Saturday Sat-urday seems unquestioned It was seen by over a dozen reputable people and it Iso is-o by three or four women who got i glance tbft de then ran screaming into the woods Mr Ruscoe saW the serpent first and in he will frst a way wi never forget The sight was disastrous Ruscoe was out clamming in the afternoon Ho had the bottom of his craft pretty well filled arid was busy ding for more clams As he tells the story Ruscoe was suddenly sud-denly confronted by an enormous serpent that stuck its head out of the water right alongside the boat I had a large blackhead black-head and its back was a copperas color Itmn a big rd tongue out of its mouth and emitted a hissing sound Its a wonder won-der Ruscoes hair didnt turn white in an instant He admits he was terribly Frightened He drppped his clamming forks into the river and pulled for the shore with all his might Tho moment ho landed ho left the boat and clams and ran for the woods Ho ran a mile beforo ho sat down on a log from sheer exhaustion Ho has not seen either his boat or his cargo car-go of clams since The sea serpent kept its head out of the water for some time and was seen from the shore by at least a dozen persons A Mr Ryles took a good look at it from the limb of a tree that he ascended Landlord Miller who keeps a tavern on the banks of the Narabon a milo away by the bridge saw the serpent from carriage as he was driving along the fiver Both Ryles and Miller confirm thp description of tho serpent given by Ruscoe They say the reptile rep-tile was very long because it flapped rp tail out of the water while its head was away out at the other end The news of the discovery was spread among tho dwellers along the Narabon on Sunday and at oho an expedition was formed to capture the serpent Men went out in boats armed with revolvers guns and spears The entire river was searched and the search has been kept up every day this eTaI it has not been c Itis the general opinion that the serpent went down the river and out into Long Island Sound All sorts of things come up the Narabon from time to time Last year a snake was killed at almost tho identical spot where the sea serpent was seen this time Globe Democrat tmeGlbe Dtnocrat |