Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1919 — Captures Shark With His Handkerchief [ARTICLE]

Captures Shark With His Handkerchief

Saugus, Mass. —John Hobbs, nineteen, captured a mackerel shark 3 feet 9 inches long, by tying a handkerchief about its tail. Hobbs’ sister was on her way home from a grocery store when she heard a spashing in the water on the edge of Riverside cemetery. Investigating, she found the shark trying to get into the river. It had become! stranded when tlie tlde turned. She ca 11 ed her broth er, who wound his handkerchief around the slim tail of the shark, dragging it ashore.