COBRA KILLS EXPERT.
BITTEN 300 TIMES. JOHANNESBURG. John Henry Gordon, the snake expert at the Empire Exhibition in Johannesburg, died on Christmas Day from a snake bite. He had claimed that he had been bitten 300 times. Almost every kind of snake in existence had bitten him at one time or another. Recently a cobra bit his hand. He re«overed, but was warned by a doctor. On Christmas Eve another cobra bit him and he succumbed the following day.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1937, Page 12
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79COBRA KILLS EXPERT. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1937, Page 12
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