Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — Whale in Shrimp Net. [ARTICLE]

Whale in Shrimp Net.

. A small bottle-nosed whale 11 feet long and 6 feet In circumference has been captured off tho Essex coast, and is now to be seen on the beach at Southend. It was surprised near the shore by some local fishermen, who managed to take it by tangling It up in an old shrimp net. Its vitality was so great that It lived for fifty hours after capture. The idea of tackling a ton of lively whale with a shrimp net does not In the least Impress its captors, who, says our correspondent, “would go for a sea serpent with a half Indi rope.”