Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-11-04 | Page 5 | Hooked a Big Shark

hooked a big shark the officers of the steamer limon which reached her berth at long arhart the other day told a story of the capture of a man eating shark while the big was taking on a cargo at port limon costa rica luca says the boston globe one of the negro fruit handlers was fishing over the side lie he had thrown out a small hook book baited with meat and almost tm i a tely it was snapped up by an exceedingly voracious man eater everyone E on board ship hip ran to see the tun fun the negro played the shark until it was exhausted and then ono one of the crow crew went down the jacobs ladder and slipped a noose under ita fins the monster was hauled to tho the deck but before it was wait killed it kno knocked r ked one negro down two of the tha sailors killed it with a heavy club the shark measured 13 12 feet and weighed pounds it was the largest ot of its species over seen at port I 1 union