LONG BATTLE WITH DEADLY SNAKE
Durban, by Air Mail—Mr Lawrence Searle, aged 29, caught a 6ft 4in black mamba fan extremely poisonous snake) in his bare hands and struggled to keep it coiled round his neck for three hours until help arrived. *
He was walking alone beside a canal near Durban when he saw the black mamba slithering into the canal. He followed and attacked it with his bare hands.
After a difficult struggle in the water he managed to' get a grip on the snake's head. He wound its length round his neck and with one hand grasping the snake behind the head and the other the tail, carried it to a nearby house, from which help was called.—Reuter.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27990, 9 June 1956, Page 11
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