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Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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On the 29th ult., Samuel Beeman III and his 16-year-old brother George pursued and killed a large bull moose swimming across a lake near Plattsburgh, using a canoe and axe in a 1.5-hour chase.
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On the 29th ult. Samuel Beeman, 3d, and his brother Geo. Beeman, the latter aged about 16 years, discovered a large Bull Moose, swimming across the Lake—they immediately gave chase. And when they came up with him, being armed with an axe, the boy gave five blows with the axe, while his brother managed the canoe: but finding it impossible for one man to paddle the canoe as fast as the Moose would swim, and that by this course of proceeding he would escape, they united their exertions and brought the canoe alongside of him, when the lad seized the Moose by his horns, held him to the canoe, or rather held the canoe to him, until his brother killed the animal with the axe. The whole pursuit lasted about an hour and half.—Plattsburgh
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Plattsburgh
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On The 29th Ult.
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the bull moose was killed with an axe.
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Samuel Beeman, 3d, and his brother Geo. Beeman, aged about 16 years, discovered a large Bull Moose swimming across the Lake and gave chase in a canoe. Armed with an axe, the boy struck five blows while his brother paddled, but then they brought the canoe alongside, where the lad seized the Moose by his horns and held it until his brother killed it with the axe. The pursuit lasted about an hour and half.