Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1912 — NEW SEA SERPENT IN VENICE [ARTICLE]

NEW SEA SERPENT IN VENICE

Looks Like a Shark and Ha* Face Like Gil* Monster, and Everybody Sober. Venice, Cal. —One of the gneeroat deep-sea creatures ever seen here wa* brought in by a fisherman. It ii five feet in length, black and green mnt. tied, with a tail like a shark. It has a dorsel fin and four feet shaped like those of a parrot It* month resembles that of a Gila monster, while its head t* a replica on a large scale of th .t of a California-horned toad.