SPIDER KILLS SHARK
A tarantula has killed the leader of a pack of man-eating sharks. Sailors aboard the United Fruit steamship Tivives state that after the vessel left Jamaica it was followed for twentyfour hours by several whales. Later an attacking school of sharks made its appearance, and the whales fled, leaving two of their number dead.
The passenger's got. nervous when the sharks insisted on slaying alongside, so the sailors made a dummy man of painted canvas filled with banana stems, on which they discovered a big and deadly tarantula. They deliberately “ riled” the venomous creature, and then sewed up and cast their dummy overboard. According to their story, the shark leader grabbed it and instantly ripped it open. A few minutes later the ugly maneater started to flap weakly in the water, turned over, and died-
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Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 6
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138SPIDER KILLS SHARK Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 6
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