SNAKES AT LARGE
PANIC IN MONTREAL OWNER DYING FROM BITE SEARCH FOR THREE REPTILES By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received May 7, 5.25 p.m.) MONTREAL, May 6 Three snakes of a deadly species are believed to be loose somewhere in Montreal, while their owner lies dying from the bite of one of them.
Mr. Edward Smith, of Louisiana, who came to Montreal to exhibit several reptiles which he had raised on his farm, had kept twelve poisonous snakes in a cage in his room at a hotel, including an adder.
On Mr. Smith attempting to treat the adder for some ailment, it bit him and by the time ho had rushed to a hospital the poison had spread so far through his system that amputation of the arm which had been bitten was of no avail.
In fleeing from his room, Mr. Smith had left the door open and three of the snakes are believed to have escaped. A chemist employed by the Municipal Council, by the' application of poisongas, killed the other nine snakes in the room.
Panic was caused in the section of the city where the hotel is located as the police roped off certain streets and permitted no pedestrians to pass. They then made a systematic search for tho reptiles believed to have escaped.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22413, 8 May 1936, Page 11
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216SNAKES AT LARGE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22413, 8 May 1936, Page 11
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