ATTACKED BY A SNAKE.
MAN NEARLY STRANGIJ3D. (Received 11.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Mrs Kennedy, the wife of a Coraki Councillor, while getting medicine for ncr sick child last night, was attacked "y a big carpet snake, one of the nonvenomous varieties, which mounted a dresser. Her screams brought her husband, who grabbed the reptile near the head. It coiled itself round his neck and ribs, and nlmost strangled him before his wife succeeded in cutting through the coils. On dissection it was discovered that : ax china eggs and a silver fork were in tte stomach of the snake.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 48, 25 February 1914, Page 5
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