Show T Ten Foot i root en-root r JL 01 Shark it Is Killed by Woman and Pair of Men NEW YORK Aug 19 A 19 A shovel- shovel nosed shark 10 feet 2 inches long and weighing pounds was caught by two men and a woman off oft Rockaway Point recently Harry Sampson employed at Morses Morse's dry dock at seventh Fifty-seventh street Bay BayRidge BayRidge BayRidge Ridge went out in his motor boat Anna with his wife ami ard his chum George Adams to fish figh for sea bass They had had several several shark lines with them and set out one of these before they started hooking for bass In the middle of the afternoon the shark line tautened with a tremendous Jerk Mrs Sampson was nearest She passed the line about a cleat on the deck and checked its pull until the themen themen themen men could reach it Then all three handled it The shark soon revealed himself thrashing about violently and twice leaping clear out of ot the water Once When he was near the boat Adams shot twice at him with a revolver but missed Then the line gave way and and the shark departed with the hook still in his mouth and several feet of the tho heavy cord trailing The Sampsons and Adams put out another shark line baited with a sea bass thinking they might hook another another another an an- other shark This line had not been out ten minutes when there was an another another another an- an other Jerk and to their amazement they found they had hooked the same big fish again This time they fought him for nearly nearly nearly near near- ly an hour Then his struggling ceased and they were WE're able to haul him alongside alongside alongside along along- side dead The Second hook had torn his gills so badly he was unable to breathe The captors fastened several more hooks to his mouth attached heavy lines and towed him to the dry dock where the men work There he was hoisted to the pier and weighed and measured Sharks Shark's of the shovel-nosed shovel variety are not supposed to be dangerous but some fishermen assert that when they have been long without food tood they will eat fOat humans |