Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — An Immense Shark. [ARTICLE]

An Immense Shark.

Antone Joseph, an old whaling mate now stationed as cook of the Cornfield lightship, Essex, Conn., hooked the boss shark of the season on Wednesday of last week. The monster measured from nose to tip of tail 14 feet 7 Inches, and weighed about 500 pounds. When Mr. Joseph noticed the shark under the lightship quarter, he immediately got out the share fishing tackle and baited the hook with a round of Uncle Sam’s mess pork, which Mr. Shark very quickly made a meal of and was towed alongside of the ship. The gaffs were hooked on to him and he was hoisted on board. The sirloin steaks being removed, he was cast back into the sea for the Niantic parties to take pictures of or some imaginative reporter to write up as a sea serpent.