SNAKES BY POST.
<*- The rage iu the States for sending noison to people through the post appears to be spreading, and a new and more ingenious method than poisoned can’dy has been adopted. Mr George ir S Terry, secretary of a New Yoik wholesale drug firm, received through the post a small box. When he opened it, out darted a small snake, which was afterwards pronounced by a naturalist to be a poisonous asp ol tne same species that Cleopatra is supposed to have used to kill herself wnn. Its bite is almost instantaneously fatal. Curiously enough, a snake was used in another case, evidently for the purpose of murder, at Rochester, New York State. May Cook, a well-known Vaudeville performer, received a pasteboard box supposed to contain flowers. She opened the box in her dressingroom, v/hen out darted a copperhead snake and made a vicious lunge at her face. The stage attendants rushed in and killed the snake, whose bite would mean certain death. A rejected admirer is supposed to have taken this fiendish means of revenge.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1425, 22 June 1899, Page 52
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