Show Hooked a Swordfish Eight miles off Newport Cal a 12 foot swordfish with a sword four feet long caught on an SO hook by Hugh McMillan and G G Shoemaker towed the fishermens launch two miles aftei having charged the boat repeatedly and scarred the stern In numerous places The monster was killed after half an hours fight It weighed several sev-eral hundred pounds When the big fish was first caught It charged to the surface endangering the lives of two men and of other men In two nearby launches The captors of the monster were towed almost out of sight of the men In tho other boats Persons ashore refused to believe that the two men caught the fish on their 27Ktrand cotton line until the story wns vouched for by the men In the other launches |