FIGHT WITH A SNAKE
MAN'S FURIOUS STRUGGLE A man fought a furious battle with a 3ft. 6iu., man-killing snake in London recent I V, after mistaking it for an cel. 'J'he snake, a South American variety which natives call " the silent death, was killed after half an hours fight. Mr William Sweeney, of Peckham, took hi« capture to the Sunday Express office, where he. learned that a lute from the snake would liavo been fatal in live minutes. , , 0 " J heard a noiso in the Grand Surrey Canal, which runs at the bottom of my garden," Mr. Sweeney said, " and saw what I thought was the head of an eel above the water. I determined to catch it and got a stick under, its body and flung it on to the bank. Immediately 1 realised, to my horror, that I had caughu a snake. * Jt, is believed that the snake was brought to England in a ship's cargo and was transferred to a bargo from which it escaped into the canal.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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