A BASKET OF SNAKES
PARCELS OFFICE DRAMA.
CUNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (Received 10th June, 11- a.m.)
BRISBANE, This Day. On Saturday night a basket was left at the Maryborough railway parcels office. During- the night rats gnawed a hole in the basket, and next, morning two snakes were killed in> the railway station. When the parcels office was opened, four other large specimens were discovered crawling on the floor, and were killed. Later in the day a man called and demanded the basket. He explained that it contained snakes belonging to a show which had been exhibiting in the town, arid stated that sis more snakes, all venomous, were unaccounted for. Subsequently three of the missing snakes were found in various parts of the station and were killed.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 136, 10 June 1924, Page 7
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127A BASKET OF SNAKES Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 136, 10 June 1924, Page 7
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