Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1913 — Big Lobster Fights Man. [ARTICLE]

Big Lobster Fights Man.

With a lobster three feet long and weighing 13 pounds as evidence and cuts on his hands and legs to corroborate bis tale, John Meuse, a fisherman, reached port today with a story of a fight with one of the largest crustaceans ever brought to Boston. Meuse caught the lobster on a trawl. When he got it in the boat it attacked him with its 18-inch claws and bit him severely until he subdued It with an oar. Fishermen estimate that the lobster must be at least twenty-five years old. Its shell, partly covered with barnacles, is scarred apparently front battles with other lobsters. The average lobster weight a pound and ■ half.—Boston Correspondence New York Tribune.