THE MORNING CALL — MAY 25, 1891
A Shark Swims Away With All Its Internal Organs Removed.
Dr. Rhett Goode, the well-known surgeon of this city, tells a story which is certainly one of the most remarkable ever recorded. It is a fish story, but a true one.
The doctor, with Messrs. W. H. Barney, E. O. Zadek and W. C. Gellibrand was the guest of Captain J. W. Black, manager of the Sullivan Timber Company, on an excursion down the bay Wednesday, says the Mobile Register. The party reached Fort Morgan early in the morning and spent the day in fishing, enjoying excellent sport. Mr. Barney brought two shark lines and cast them early in the day, but not until afternoon, when the party was at dinner, did he get a bite. Then the fishermen pulled in two moderate-sized sharks, one about five feet long and the other about seven feet long. When the fish, after considerable excitement, were pulled up on the wharf, they were given their quietus with an ax.
Some time after it was suggested that Dr. Goode open the sharks and recover whatever gold watches, finger-rings, etc., their stomachs should be found to contain. The doctor opened the seven-footer and then plied the knife on the smaller shark. The story as he tells it is as follows:
“I made a straight incision and opened the body of the shark. I took out the stomach, the alimentary canel and the intestines, and, having examined the stomach, threw those organs over into the water. Having a curiosity to see how
