Show CAUGHT OSPREY IN remarkable feat that ts Is credited to I 1 a member of th the N new ew york fire department now a fisherman herman fi lassoed and captured an osprey or with a hand fl Is 19 told by a correspondent of the new york sun A number of fishermen were on board he says and we were anchored with hue sout in iii every direction I 1 was fishing from the starboard side of the top deck near the m ahen hen suddenly it made a dive for a bergle that anva was s floating on n the bater atar a short distance from uia the bout boat bet beta beaven ven two lines but nearer the line lice of mr john woods of the new york fire department mr air woods tried playfully to throw his line over the bird and somehow domebo W he actually succeeded in looping the line round its left wing in such a manner that it could not escape the hooke did not catch nt at all for they were far beyond but the osprey was securely lag lassoed goed it was at once an exciting and a ludicrous task to reel in the big bird it struggled desperately end and had it not been for the length of line beyond it bilth a ten ounce sinker at the end it might have been nece necessary scary to reel it down from the sky instead of up from the sea when it was brought to the deck and found itself in the strong but not unkind unbind hands of a group of fishermen it teemed seemed frightened angry and disgusted but strange to say it did not fight its ita captors someone suggested killing it and one man urged sending it to an aviary but above all the other voices I 1 beard a self appointed cou counsel niBel tor for the prisoner pleading for its liberty with an am oratory effective lf if cot classical aw I 1 let et the poor fillow fellow go I 1 and so on reflection said thi the jury when the bird was set at liberty none the worsen worse for its lt strange adventure it shot straight down among the unes lines again got the bergle it started out to get and then leisurely flew away |