Plucky Miss Gertrude Lyon lands a large man-eater with the assistance of her father, near Norwalk, Conn. 

Miss Gertrude Lyon, who is camping with friends at Sherwood’s Point, new Norwalk, Conn., caught the largest fish of her life on a recent afternoon. She was fishing with her father James Lyons, when she felt an unusually strong tug at her line, and being unable to pull whatever was at the end toward the boat, called on her father for assistance. They played with the fish until at last the mouth of shark yawned uncomfortably close to the boat. Miss Lyons was frightened, but her father grasped a clean rake and dealt the shark a blow that killed it. He then fastened the fish to the boat and rowed to camp ground, where the shark was found to measure 7 feet in length.

Reprinted from National Police Gazette, September 29, 1894.